Subj : This Day In History
To : All
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Tue Apr 20 2021 12:05 am
Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
Registered to Omicron Theta
By Scott Labrecque
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Births:
04/20/ 121 Marcus Aurelius, 16th Roman emperor (161-80), philosopher
04/20/1442 Edward IV, King (England, 1461-83)
04/20/1494 John Agricola [Schneider], German theologist/prime minister
04/20/1594 Matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern, composer
04/20/1705 Balthasar Schmid, composer
04/20/1725 Johann Friedrich Kloffler, composer
04/20/1726 Jozef de Ferraris, French/Austrian earl/general/cartographer
04/20/1745 Philippe Pinel, physician, founder of psychiatry
04/20/1748 Georg Michael Telemann, composer
04/20/1748 Guillaume Albert Teniers, composer
04/20/1761 Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier, composer
04/20/1808 Louis-Napoleon (Napoleon III), emperor of France (1852-71)
04/20/1809 John Smith Preston, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1881
04/20/1824 Alfred Holt Colquitt, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1894
04/20/1827 John Gibbon, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1896
04/20/1839 Carol I, King of Romania (1881-1914)
04/20/1840 Odilon Redon, French painter/author (La nuit, R�ves)
04/20/1850 Daniel Chester French/American sculptor (Minute Man)
04/20/1858 Auguste Chapuis, composer
04/20/1860 Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Dutch SDAP Member of 2nd parliament
04/20/1866 Victor Hollaender, composer
04/20/1870 Simeon Roncal, composer
04/20/1871 William Henry Davies, Wales, poet (Autobiography of a Super Tramp)
04/20/1876 Gerard J Arbous, actor/publicist (Prince Willem of Orange)
04/20/1879 Robert Lynd, Irish writer/critic (Pleasures of Ignorance)
04/20/1881 Nikolai Miaskovsky, Novogeorievsk Poland, composer (Kirov is With Us
04/20/1881 Sem Dresden, composer/conductor
04/20/1889 Adolph Hitler, Braunau Austria, dictator of Nazi Germany (1936-45)
04/20/1890 Adolf Sch�rf, president Austria
04/20/1893 Harold Lloyd, Burchard Neb, silent comic (Why Worry, Safety Last)
04/20/1893 Juan Mir�, Spain, painter/sculptor (Dog Barking at the Moon)
04/20/1894 Martinus Nijhoff, poet/interpreter/linguistic (spelling)
04/20/1897 Bernard Verhoeven, poet/literature (About the Laugh)
04/20/1897 Gregory Ratoff, Russian/US actor/director (Corsican Brothers)
04/20/1900 Fred Raymond, composer
04/20/1900 Kees Verwey, painter/water colors painter/cartoonist
04/20/1901 Michel Levis, French cultural anthropologist
04/20/1902 Donald Wolfit, actor (Becket, Guilty, Room at the Top, Svengali)
04/20/1902 Vesselin Stoyanov, composer
04/20/1903 Dagmar Edqvist, Swedish author (Kamrathustru-Wife & Comrade)
04/20/1904 Bruce Cabot, Carlsbad NM, actor (Diamonds are Forever, King Kong)
04/20/1907 William Dollar, St Louis, ballet dancer/choreographer
04/20/1908 Wilhelmus M Bekkers, bishop of Hertogenbosch
04/20/1909 Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader/vibraphone improviser
04/20/1910 Robert F Wagner, (Mayor-D-NYC, 1954-65)
04/20/1912 Ed Jones, (Rep-D-TN, 1969- )
04/20/1912 Soewarsil Djojopoespito, Indonesia, writer (Toe the Line)
04/20/1913 Dick Wessel, actor (Dick Tracy vs Cueball, Beware of Blondie)
04/20/1920 John Paul Stevens, Illinois, 103rd Supreme Court Justice (1975- )
04/20/1923 Tito Puente, Puerto Rico, bandleader (Dance Mania)
04/20/1924 Gerhard Samuel, composer
04/20/1924 Nina Foch, Leiden Netherlands, actress (American in Paris)
04/20/1925 Ernie Stautner, NFL defensive tackle (Pitts Steelers)
04/20/1925 Richard Hoffmann, composer
04/20/1927 Karl M�ller, Switzerland, superconductivity physicist (Nobel 1987)
04/20/1929 Bob Braun, Ludlow Ky, singer (Dotty Mack Show)
04/20/1931 Lee H Hamilton, Daytona Beach Fla, (Rep-D-Ind, 1965- )
04/20/1936 Pat Roberts, (Rep-R-KS, 1981- )
04/20/1938 Bernard Malivoire, France, cox pair (Olympic-gold-1952)
04/20/1938 Betty Cuthbert, Australia 100m/200m/400m dash (Olympic-gold-1956, 64
04/20/1938 Johnny Tillotson, Jacksonville Fla, singer (Gidget, Poetry in Motion
04/20/1939 Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norse premier (1981-82, 86-89, 90- )
04/20/1940 George Takei, LA Calif, actor (Sulu-Star Trek, Green Berets)
04/20/1940 John Cremer, writer/sculptor (I, John Cremer)
04/20/1941 Joni Evans, NYC, publisher (Simon & Schuster, Random House)
04/20/1941 Ryan O'Neal, LA Calif, actor (Peyton Place, Paper Moon, Love Story)
04/20/1943 Edie Sedgwick, actor (Ciao Manhattan)
04/20/1943 Ian Watson, UK, sci-fi author (Book of Being, Whores of Babylon)
04/20/1943 Michael Greer, Galesburg Ill, actor (Bobby Gentry Show)
04/20/1945 Jimmy Winston, organist (Samll Facres-Itchycoo Park)
04/20/1947 David Leland, actor/director (Nothing But Trouble)
04/20/1948 Craig Frost, keyboardist (Grand Funk Railroad-Some Kind of Wonderful
04/20/1949 Jessica Lange, Cloquet Minnesota, actress (King Kong, Tootsie)
04/20/1950 Itumeleng J Mosala, S Afr president (Azanian People's Org)
04/20/1951 Luther Vandross, rock vocalist (On the Wings of Love)
04/20/1957 Richenel, [Hubertus R Baars], singer/perforner (Turn my page)
04/20/1959 Clint Howard, Burbank Calif, actor (Gentle Ben)
04/20/1961 Don 'Hitman' Mattingly, Indiana, NY Yankee 1st baseman (MVP 1985)
04/20/1963 Brett Edward Garsed, Victoria Australia, heavy metal artist (Nelson)
04/20/1963 Kal Swan, heavy metal rocker
04/20/1967 J D Roth, Beverly Hills Calif, TV host (Fun House)
04/20/1967 Lara Jill Miller, Allentown Pa, actress (Samantha-Gimme a Break)
04/20/1975 Joey Lawrence, Phila Pa, actor (Joey-Gimme a Break, Summer Rental)
04/20/1977 Lisa Ervin, figure skater (US Nationals-4th-1992)
Deaths:
04/20/1164 Victor IV, [Ottaviano Montecello], Italian antipope (1159-64), dies
04/20/1314 Clement V, [Bertrand the Got], pope (1305-14) moved papacy to Avigno
04/20/1317 Agnes van Montepulciano, Italian mystic/saint, dies
04/20/1534 Elizabeth Barton, [St Magd van Kent], British prophet, dies
04/20/1632 Nicolas Antione, converted to Judiasm, burned at the stake
04/20/1643 Christoph Demantius, composer, dies at 75
04/20/1662 Gerard Terborch, the elder, painter, dies
04/20/1695 Georg Caspar Weckler, composer, dies at 63
04/20/1786 John Goodricke, English deaf & dumb astronomer, dies at 21
04/20/1812 George Clinton, 4th US VP, dies at 73 1st VP to, die in office
04/20/1820 Arthur Young, author (Annals of Agriculture)
04/20/1821 Franz K Achard, German physicist/chemist, dies at 67
04/20/1836 Johan I Jozef, monarch of Liechtenstein/field marshal, dies at 75
04/20/1839 Giuseppe Rossini, father of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, die
04/20/1869 Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe, composer, dies at 72
04/20/1869 Piotr Studzinski, composer, dies at 42
04/20/1872 Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja), dies at 62
04/20/1899 Edouard Pailleron, French attorney/comedian (voice o�), dies at 64
04/20/1900 Mebel Mercer, popular singer of England
04/20/1906 Australian wombat, dies in London Zoo at 26; oldest known marsupial
04/20/1912 Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/writer (Dracula), dies
04/20/1935 Juliaan de Vriendt, Flemish painter, dies at 92
04/20/1941 Barend de Her, Dutch lawyer, dies in Buchenwald at 49
04/20/1947 Christian X, king of Denmark (1912-47), dies
04/20/1956 Jaap Vranken, organist/composer (Stabat mater), dies
04/20/1956 Lieven Duvosel, composer, dies at 78
04/20/1962 Arthur Harmat, composer, dies at 77
04/20/1962 Jesse G Vincent, engineer designed 1st V-12 engine, dies at 82
04/20/1965 Richard Wessell, actor (Carney-Riverboat), dies at 54
04/20/1968 Marion Weeks, entertainer, dies
04/20/1971 Cecil Parker, actor (Court Jester, Operation Snafu), dies at 73
04/20/1973 Robert Armstrong, actor (Fall Guy, Exposed), dies at 82
04/20/1974 Agnes Moorehead, actress (Endora-Bewitched), dies at 67
04/20/1974 Mohammed Ayub Khan, premier/president (Pakistan), dies
04/20/1977 Bryan Foy, director/writer, dies
04/20/1979 Peter Donald, host (Masquerade Party), dies at 60
04/20/1982 Archibald MacLeish, US, lawyer/writer (Conquistador), dies at 89
04/20/1982 Mimi Boesnach, actress (The wedding of Kloris & Roses), dies at 82
04/20/1984 Mabel Mercer, English/US singer (Fly me to the moon), dies at 84
04/20/1987 Antony Tudor, dancer/choreographer (Amer Ballet Theater) dies at 78
04/20/1991 Don[ald] Siegel, US director (Coogan's bluff/Dirty Harry), dies
04/20/1991 Jumjaagiyn Tsedenbal, Mongolian politcian, dies
04/20/1991 Sean O'Faolain, [John Whelan], Irish writer (Nest of Simple), dies
04/20/1991 Steve Marriott, England, rocker (Humble Pie/All or nothing), dies
04/20/1992 Benny Hill, comedian (Benny Hill Show), dies of a heart attack at 67
04/20/1992 Johnny Shines, Delta blues singer/guitarist, dies at 76
04/20/1993 Cantinflas, [Mario Moreno], Mexican actor (Pepe), dies at 81
04/20/1994 Jean Carmet, French actor (Merci la vie, Le sucre), dies at 72
Significant Events:
04/20/ 295 8th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
04/20/ 850 Guntherus becomes bishop of Cologne
04/20/1139 2nd Lateran Council (10th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
04/20/1505 Jews are expelled from Orange Burgandy by Philibert of Luxembourg
04/20/1770 Capt Cook arrives in New South Wales
04/20/1775 British begin siege of Boston
04/20/1777 New York adopts new constitution as an independent state
04/20/1792 France declares war on Austria, Prussia & Sardinia
04/20/1799 Napoleon issues a decree calling for establishing Jerusalem for Jews
04/20/1809 Napolean I defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria
04/20/1836 Territory of Wisconsin created
04/20/1841 1st detective story (Poe's 'Murders in Rue Morgue') published
04/20/1853 Harriet Tubman starts Underground Railroad
04/20/1861 Battle of Norfolk, VA
04/20/1861 Robert E Lee resigns from Union army
04/20/1871 3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus)
04/20/1872 SF Bar Association organized
04/20/1879 1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London & Cyprus
04/20/1884 Pope Leo XIII encyclical 'On Freemasonry'
04/20/1888 246 reported killed by hail in Moradabad, India
04/20/1894 136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase
04/20/1898 US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota opens
04/20/1902 Marie & Pierre Curie isolate radioactive element radium
04/20/1903 R S Dugan discovers asteroid #508 Princetonia
04/20/1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in St Louis
04/20/1904 M Wolf discovers asteroid #532 Herculina
04/20/1910 Cleve Indians Addie Joss 2nd no-hitter, beats Chicago, 1-0
04/20/1910 Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km
04/20/1912 Fenway Park officially opens, Red Sox beat NY Highlanders 7-6 in 11
04/20/1912 Tiger Stadium in Detroit opens
04/20/1914 33 killed by soldiers during mine strike in Ludlow, Colo
04/20/1914 F Kaiser discovers asteroid #786 Bredichina
04/20/1914 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #787 Moskva
04/20/1916 German-British sea battle off Belgian coast
04/20/1916 Wrigley Field in Chicago opens
04/20/1917 Pravda (Lenin names Russia 'Free land of world')
04/20/1919 Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army
04/20/1920 7th modern Olympic games opens in Antwerp Belgium
04/20/1920 Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate
04/20/1920 Big Show ends 2 year run on NBC radio
04/20/1920 Tornadoes kill 219 in Alabama & Mississippi
04/20/1926 1st check sent by radio facsimile transmission across Atlantic
04/20/1931 British House of Commons agrees for sports play on Sunday
04/20/1934 Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector Prussian secret state police
04/20/1935 'You're Hit Parade' begins broadcasting (becomes #1 quickly)
04/20/1936 Jews repell an Arab attack in Petach Tikvah Palestine
04/20/1939 New York World's Fair opens
04/20/1939 Ted Williams' 1st hit (off of Yankee Red Ruffing) a double
04/20/1940 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia, Pa
04/20/1941 100 German bombers attack Athens
04/20/1942 German occupiers forbids Dutch access to their beach
04/20/1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
04/20/1944 Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter John Postma sentence to dea
04/20/1944 NFL leagalizes coaching from bench
04/20/1945 German occupiers flood Beemster & Fencer
04/20/1945 Soviet troops enter Berlin
04/20/1945 US 7th army captured German city of Nuremberg
04/20/1945 US forces conquer Motobu peninsula on Okinawa
04/20/1946 1st baseball broadcast in Chicago, Cards vs Cubs
04/20/1948 Walter P Reuther UAW pres shot & wounded at his home in Detroit
04/20/1949 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 1st race, in Albany, California
04/20/1950 Balt's Memorial Stadium opens - Orioles of International League
04/20/1950 R C Cameron discovers asteroid #1575 Winifred
04/20/1951 Velsen city council demands investigation of police collaborators
04/20/1957 John Kelley, 1st American since 1945, wins Boston Marathon
04/20/1957 Yankee Bill Skowron becomes 3rd player to hit a ball out of Fenway
04/20/1958 Buses replace Key System trains at 3 AM
04/20/1958 Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
04/20/1958 Morocco demands departure of Spanish troops
04/20/1961 American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight
04/20/1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 63,250 m
04/20/1962 New Orleans Citizens Co gives free 1-way ride to blacks to move Nort
04/20/1962 OAS-leader ex-general Salan arrested in Algiers
04/20/1964 86% of black students boycott Cleveland schools
04/20/1965 People's Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid
04/20/1966 WDCA TV channel 20 in Washington, DC (IND) begins broadcasting
04/20/1967 French author R�gis Debray caught in Bolivia
04/20/1967 NY Met Tom Seavers 1st victory, beating Cubs, 6-1
04/20/1967 US Surveyor 3 lands on Moon
04/20/1967 US planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during Vietnam War
04/20/1968 Pierre Elliott Trudeau sworn-in as Canada's PM
04/20/1968 S Afr Boeing 707 crashes at Windhoek, 122 killed
04/20/1970 Bruno Kreisky becomes 1st socialistic chancellor of Austria
04/20/1970 Ron Hill's 2:10:30 at Boston, sets new US marathon record
04/20/1971 Barbra Striesand records 'We've Only Just Begun'
04/20/1971 US Supreme Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial desegregati
04/20/1972 Apollo 16's Young & Duke land on Moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2
04/20/1973 Canadian ANIK A2 becomes 1st commercial satellite in orbit
04/20/1974 Paul McCartney releases 'Band on the Run'
04/20/1975 Penguins 1-Isles 3-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-1 lead
04/20/1976 George Harrison sings lumberjack song with Monty Python
04/20/1977 A R Klemola discovers asteroid #2261
04/20/1977 Supreme Court rules 'Live Free or Die' may be covered on NH licenses
04/20/1977 Woody Allen's film 'Annie Hall' premieres
04/20/1978 Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets in Russian airspace
04/20/1980 Cubans begin to arrive in US from Mariel boatlift
04/20/1981 Final performance of TV show 'Soap' airs
04/20/1981 Rocker Papa John Phillips arrested for drug possession
04/20/1983 Pres Reagan signs a $165B bail out for Social Security
04/20/1983 Rangers 2-Isles 7-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 3-2 lead
04/20/1983 Soyuz T-8 launched; mission aborted when capsule fails to dock
04/20/1984 Russian offensive in Panshirvallei Afghanistan
04/20/1985 Carlos Lopes runs world record marathon (2:07:12)
04/20/1985 Karyn Marshall of NYC lifted 303 lbs in a clean & jerk lift
04/20/1986 Michael Johnson sets NBA playoff record with 63 points in a game
04/20/1986 Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland
04/20/1987 Sri Lanka: Tamils shoot 122 Singalezen dead
04/20/1987 Toshihko Seko & Rosa Mota win Boston Marathon
04/20/1987 US deports Karl Linnas, charged with nazi war crimes, to USSR
04/20/1988 Balt Orioles worst record to start a season 0-14 (will go 0-21)
04/20/1988 NJ Devils 1st playoff hat trick-Eric Broten
04/20/1988 US accuses Renamo of killing 100,000 Mozambiquians
04/20/1988 Yanks HR 9,999 (D Winfield) 10,000 (C Washington) 10,001 (J Clarke)
04/20/1990 Pete Rose pleads guilty to hiding $300,000 in income
04/20/1991 1st non stop flight Schiphol-Flamingo airport Bonaire
04/20/1991 Raghib 'Rocket' Ismael signs with Toronto Argonauts for $26.2 millio
04/20/1992 100th episode of 'Murphy Brown' airs
04/20/1992 All star concert in memory of Freddie Mercury held at Wembley Stadiu
04/20/1992 Expo '92 opens in Seville Spain
04/20/1992 Madonna signs $60-million deal with Time Warner
04/20/1992 Queen's concert at Wembley stadium
04/20/1993 Uranus passes Neptune (once every 171 years)
04/20/1994 Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed
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