Today in history
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| YEAR | DAY | EVENT | ||||
| 1314 | Apr 20 | Clement V, [Bertrand Got], pope (1305-14) who moved papacy to Avignon, died. | ||||
| 1534 | Apr 20 | Elizabeth Barton, [St Magd van Kent], British prophet, died. | ||||
| 1653 | Apr 20 | Oliver Cromwell dissolved the English parliament. “You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately”¦” | ||||
| 1715 | Apr 20 | Nicholas Rowe’s “Tragedy of Lady Jane Gray,” premiered in London. | ||||
| 1770 | Apr 20 | Captain Cook arrived in New South Wales, Australia. | ||||
| 1777 | Apr 20 | New York adopted a new constitution as an independent state. | ||||
| 1799 | Apr 20 | Friedrich Schiller’s “Wallensteins Tod,” the third part of his Wallenstein trilogy, premiered in Weimar. | ||||
| 1839 | Apr 20 | Giuseppe Rossini, father of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, died. | ||||
| 1861 | Apr 20 | Robert E. Lee resigned from U.S. Army. | ||||
| 1865 | Apr 20 | Chicago’s Crosby Opera House opened. | ||||
| 1869 | Apr 20 | Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe (72), composer, died. | ||||
| 1888 | Apr 20 | 246 people were reported killed by hail in Moradabad, India. | ||||
| 1898 | Apr 20 | President McKinley signed a congressional resolution recognizing Cuban independence from Spain. He signed the Joint Resolution for War with Spain that authorized U.S. military intervention to Cuban independence. | ||||
| 1916 | Apr 20 | German-British sea battle off Belgian coast. | ||||
| 1917 | Apr 20 | In the Pravda newspaper Lenin named Russia “Free land of world.” | ||||
| 1931 | Apr 20 | British House of Commons agreed to sports play on Sunday. | ||||
| 1936 | Apr 20 | Serious rioting took place on the borders between Jaffa and Tel-Aviv, in particular in the Catton, Manshieh and Saknat Abu Kebir quarters. | ||||
| 1940 | Apr 20 | RCA publicly demonstrated its new and powerful electron microscope in Philadelphia, Pa. | ||||
| 1941 | Apr 20 | Joni Evans, publisher of Simon & Schuster, Random House, was born in NYC. | ||||
| 1945 | Apr 20 | During World War II, Allied forces, the U.S. 7th army, took control of the German cities of Nuremberg and Stuttgart. | ||||
| 1949 | Apr 20 | Jockey Bill Shoemaker won his 1st race, in Albany, California. | ||||
| 1951 | Apr 20 | Gen. MacArthur addressed a joint session of Congress after being relieved by President Truman. | ||||
| 1961 | Apr 20 | American Harold Graham made 1st rocket belt flight. | ||||
| 1962 | Apr 20 | The Secret Army Organization (OAS) leader and ex-general Salan was arrested in Algiers. | ||||
| 1967 | Apr 20 | U.S. planes bombed Haiphong for first time during the Vietnam War. | ||||
| 1970 | Apr 20 | Paul Celan (49), Romania born poet, drowned himself in the Seine. English translations of his poems were published in 2001. | ||||
| 1977 | Apr 20 | The US Supreme Court, in Wooley v. Maynard, said car owners could refuse to display state mottoes on license plates. The Court ruled that “Live Free or Die” may be covered on NH license plates. | ||||
| 1980 | Apr 20 | The first Cubans sailing to the United States as part of the massive Mariel boatlift reached Florida. | ||||
| 1983 | Apr 20 | Pres. Reagan signed a $165B bail out for Social Security. | ||||
| 1989 | Apr 20 | Ramon Salcido, a California winery worker later convicted of killing six relatives and a co-worker, was deported from Mexico to the U.S. | ||||
| 1990 | Apr 20 | Former junk bond financier Michael Milken agreed to plead guilty to six felonies and pay $600 million in penalties to settle the largest securities fraud case in history. | ||||
| 1991 | Apr 20 | US Marines landed in northern Iraq to begin building the first center for Kurdish refugees on Iraqi territory. General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the US commander of Operation Desert Storm, left Saudi Arabia for home. | ||||
| 1993 | Apr 20 | President Clinton said he accepted responsibility for the decision to try to end the 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Texas, yet laid “ultimate responsibility” on David Koresh for the deaths that resulted. | ||||
| 1997 | Apr 20 | In Atlanta, Ga., Timmie Sinclair (27) was beaten by police officers in a scene that was captured on videotape and showed excessive use of force and baton beating. | ||||
| 1998 | Apr 20 | In Columbia a Boeing 727 leased to Air France crashed after takeoff from Bogota and all 53 people aboard were killed. | ||||
| 1999 | Apr 20 | Jay Scott Ballinger (36), arrested in Feb., was indicted on charges of burning 10 churches in Indiana and Georgia. | ||||
| 2000 | Apr 20 | Littleton, Colorado, paused to remember the victims on the first anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre. | ||||
| 2002 | Apr 20 | Representatives of the Group of Seven countries, meeting in Washington, agreed to intensify efforts to combat terrorist financing and also adopted a plan to better deal with international debt crises. | ||||
| 2003 | Apr 20 | An Australian navy vessel boarded a North Korean ship off Sydney and charged it with involvement in a $48 million heroin shipment to Victoria. | ||||
| 2004 | Apr 20 | The US Labor Dept. established new rules on overtime pay. It expanded the range for lower income workers and put a ceiling on overtime for higher income workers. | ||||
| 2005 | Apr 20 | Pres. Bush signed new legislation to make individual bankruptcy more difficult. | ||||
| 2006 | Apr 20 | Pres. Bush welcomed Chinese President Hu Jintao to the White House as the two leaders embarked on talks aimed at cooling tensions over a yawning US-China trade gap. Bush urged Hui Jintao to make trade concessions, improve human rights and exert more influence over North Korea. The 2 leaders broke no new ground on sensitive issues. | ||||
| 2007 | Apr 20 | Vermont senators voted to call for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, saying their actions have raised “serious questions of constitutionality.” | ||||
| 2008 | Apr 20 | Pope Benedict XVI held a Mass at Yankee Stadium on his last day in the US. | ||||
| 2009 | Apr 20 | President Barack Obama convened his first formal Cabinet meeting and asked department and agency chiefs to look for ways over the next 90 days to cut $100 million out of the federal budget. | ||||
| 2010 | Apr 20 | Australia’s PM Kevin Rudd said he had reached agreement with all but one of Australia’s states on major health reforms which he hopes will spearhead his 2010 re-election campaign. | ||||
| 2011 | Apr 20 | US officials said the Obama administration plans to give the Libyan opposition $25 million in non-lethal assistance in what will be the first direct US aid to the rebels after weeks of assessing their capabilities and intentions. | ||||
| 2012 | Apr 20 | Pres. Obama declared some 14,000 acres of California’s Fort Ord a national monument under the 1906 Antiquities Act. | ||||
| 2013 | Apr 20 | In San Francisco some 10-15 thousand people gathered at Golden Gate Park’s Hippie Hill for the annual “420″ unofficial pot-smoking bacchanalia. They left some 10,000 pounds of garbage for cleanup. | ||||
| 2014 | Apr 20 | In Colorado tens of thousands gathered to celebrate the first legal 4:20, the April 20 pot holiday, at Denver’s Civic Center Park. | ||||
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