Page 3: Historical Events In April - 20

1861  Robert E Lee resigns from Union army on April - 20.   

1861  Battle of Norfolk, VA on April - 20.   

1862  The first pasteurization test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard on April - 20.   

1865  On this day in history safety matches were first advertised this day.   

1865  On April - 20 chicago's Crosby Opera House opens   

1866  On April - 20 victor Hollaender, composer   

1869  Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe, composer, dies at 72 on April - 20.   

1870  Simeon Roncal, composer on April - 20.   

1871  On this day in history 3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus)   

1871  On April - 20 william Henry Davies, Wales, poet (Autobiography of a Super Tramp)   

1872  SF Bar Association organized on this day in history.   

1872  On April - 20 ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja), dies at 62   

1876  On this day in history gerard J Arbous, actor/publicist (Prince William of Orange)   

1879  The first mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London & Cyprus on April - 20.   

1879  1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London & Cyprus on April - 20.   

1879  On April - 20 robert Lynd, Irish writer/critic (Pleasures of Ignorance)   

1881  On April - 20 nikolai Miaskovsky, Novogeorievsk Poland, composer (Kirov is With Us)   

1884  Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Freemasonry" on April - 20.   

1888  On April - 20 246 reported killed by hail in Moradabad, India   

1889  The birth of Adolf Hitler, Dictator of Germany on April - 20.   

1889  On April - 20 adolph Hitler, Braunau Austria, dictator of Nazi Germany (1936-45)   

1890  On this day in history adolf Scharf, president Austria (1957-65)   

1893  The birth of Harold Lloyd, American silent film star on this day in history.   

1893  The birth of Joan Miro, Spanish artist on April - 20.   

1893  On this day in history harold Lloyd, Burchard Neb, silent comic (Why Worry, Safety Last)   

1894  136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase on April - 20.   

1894  Martinus Nijhoff, poet/interpreter/linguistic (spelling) on April - 20.   

1896  On April - 20 1st public film showing in US John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan," premieres in NYC   

1896  On April - 20 senor Wences, ventriloquist (Close the Door)   

1897  Bernard Verhoeven, poet/literature (About the Laugh) on April - 20.   

1898  On this day in history uS Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota opens   

1900  On this day in history fred Raymond, composer   

1900  Mebel Mercer, popular British singer, dies on this day in history.   

1901  On this day in history michel Leiris, French cultural anthropologist   

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0702  Jafar Sadiq, Muslim scholar (d. 765) was born on this day in history.   

1442  Edward IV, King (England, 1461-83) was born on April - 20.   

1494  On this day in history birth of john Agricola, [Schneider], German theologist/prime minister   

1586  On April - 20 birth of saint Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (d. 1617)   

1592  John Eliot, St Germans Cornwall, English MP/author was born on April - 20.   

1594  On this day in history birth of matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern, composer   

1633  On April - 20 birth of emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (d. 1654)   

1646  Charles Plumier, French botanist (d. 1704) was born on this day in history.   

1164  Victor IV, [Ottaviano Montecello], Italian antipope (1159-64), dies on April - 20.   

1176  Death of Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English soldier (b. 1130) on April - 20.   

1314  Clement V, [Bertrand Got], pope (1305-14) move papacy to Avignon, dies on this day in history.   

1317  On this day in history agnes van Montepulciano, Italian mystic/saint, dies   

1521  On this day in history death of zhengde, Emperor of China (b. 1491)   

1534  On this day in history elizabeth Barton, [St Magd van Kent], British prophet, dies   

1558  Death of Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (b. 1485) on this day in history.   

1632  On April - 20 death of nicolas Antione, converted to Judiasm, burned at the stake