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Events on the 20th of April in history

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20 Apr 0295 8th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
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20 Apr 0850 Guntherus becomes bishop of Cologne
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20 Apr 1139 2nd Lateran Council (10th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
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20 Apr 1303 The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII.
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20 Apr 1453 Three Genoese galleys and a Byzantine blockade runner fight their way through an Ottoman blockading fleet a few weeks before the fall of Constantinople.
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20 Apr 1505 Jews are expelled from Orange Burgundy by Philibert of Luxembourg
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20 Apr 1534 Jacques Cartier begins his first voyage to what is today the east coast of Canada, the island of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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20 Apr 1535 The sun dog phenomenon observed over Stockholm and depicted in the famous painting Vädersolstavlan.
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20 Apr 1551 John Dudley becomes English Earl Marshal
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20 Apr 1650 VOC-management sets new guidelines
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20 Apr 1653 Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.
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20 Apr 1653 Cromwell routes English parliament to house
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20 Apr 1657 Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City).
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20 Apr 1657 Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
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20 Apr 1657 Battle in Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife English fleet under Robert Blake sinks Spanish silver fleet
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20 Apr 1689 The former king, James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry.
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20 Apr 1702 Comet C / 1702 H1 approaches within 0.0437 AUs of Earth
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20 Apr 1702 Comet C/1702 H1 approaches within 0.0437 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth
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20 Apr 1715 Nicholas Rowe's "Tragedy of Lady Jane Gray", premieres in London
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20 Apr 1752 Start of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in the Burmese Civil War (1740–57).
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20 Apr 1770 The Georgian king, Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
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20 Apr 1770 Captain Cook arrives in New South Wales
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20 Apr 1775 American Revolutionary War: The Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
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20 Apr 1775 British begin siege of Boston
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20 Apr 1777 New York adopts new constitution as an independent state
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20 Apr 1789 George Washington arrives at Grays Ferry, Philadelphia while en route to Manhattan for his inauguration
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20 Apr 1792 France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
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20 Apr 1792 France declares war on Austria, Prussia & Sardinia
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20 Apr 1799 Friedrich von Schiller's "Wallensteins Tod", premieres in Weimar
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20 Apr 1799 Napoleon issues a decree calling for establishing Jerusalem for Jews
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20 Apr 1800 The Septinsular Republic is established.
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20 Apr 1809 Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
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20 Apr 1809 Napoleon I defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria
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20 Apr 1810 The Governor of Caracas declares independence from Spain.
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20 Apr 1818 The case of Ashford v Thornton ends, with Abraham Thornton allowed to go free rather than face a retrial for murder, after his demand for trial by battle is upheld.
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20 Apr 1828 René Caillié becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu.
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20 Apr 1836 U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory.
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20 Apr 1836 Territory of Wisconsin created
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20 Apr 1841 1st detective story (Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue") published
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20 Apr 1853 Harriet Tubman starts Underground Railroad
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20 Apr 1861 Battle of Norfolk, Virginia
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20 Apr 1861 American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia.
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20 Apr 1861 Colonel Robert E Lee resigns from Union army
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20 Apr 1862 Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment falsifying the theory of spontaneous generation.
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20 Apr 1865 Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.
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20 Apr 1865 Chicago's Crosby Opera House opens
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20 Apr 1871 The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law.
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20 Apr 1871 3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus)
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20 Apr 1872 San Francisco Bar Association organized
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20 Apr 1876 The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
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20 Apr 1879 1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London & Cyprus
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20 Apr 1884 Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Freemasonry"
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20 Apr 1884 Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
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20 Apr 1884 Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Freemasonry"
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20 Apr 1888 246 reported killed by hail in Moradabad, India
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20 Apr 1894 136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase
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20 Apr 1896 1st public film showing in US John Philip Sousa's "El Capit
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20 Apr 1898 US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota opens
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20 Apr 1902 Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
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20 Apr 1902 Marie & Pierre Curie isolate radioactive element radium
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20 Apr 1903 7th Boston Marathon won by John Lorden of Massachusetts in 2:41:29.8
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20 Apr 1903 New York Highlanders play their 1st game, with Jack Chesbro losing 3-1 to Al Orth & Washington Nationals
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20 Apr 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in St Louis
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20 Apr 1904 George Bernard Shaw's "Candida", premieres in London
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20 Apr 1908 Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
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20 Apr 1908 12th Boston Marathon won by Tom Morrissey of New York in 2:25:43.2
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20 Apr 1910 Cleveland Indians Addie Joss 2nd no-hitter, beats Chicago, 1-0
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20 Apr 1910 Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km
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20 Apr 1912 Opening day for baseball's Tiger Stadium in Detroit, and Fenway Park in Boston.
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20 Apr 1912 Fenway Park officially opens, Boston Red Sox beat New York Highlanders 7-6 in 11
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20 Apr 1912 Tiger Stadium in Detroit opens, Tigers beat Cleveland Indians 6-5
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20 Apr 1914 33 killed by soldiers during mine strike in Ludlow, Colorado
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20 Apr 1914 Nineteen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miner's strike.
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20 Apr 1914 18th Boston Marathon won by James Duffy of Canada in 2:25:01.2
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20 Apr 1916 Weeghman Park (Wrigley Field) in Chicago opens, Cubs beat Cin Reds 7-6
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20 Apr 1916 The Chicago Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park (currently Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7–6 in 11 innings.
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20 Apr 1916 German-British sea battle off Belgian coast
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20 Apr 1916 1st National League game at Weeghman Park (Wrigley Field) in Chicago opens, Chicago Cubs beat Cincinnati Reds 7-6
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20 Apr 1917 Pravda (Lenin names Russia "Free land of world")
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20 Apr 1918 Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
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20 Apr 1919 Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army
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20 Apr 1920 Tornadoes kill 219 in Alabama & Mississippi
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20 Apr 1920 7th modern Olympic games open in Antwerp Belgium
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20 Apr 1920 Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate
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20 Apr 1920 Big Show ends 2 year run on NBC radio
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20 Apr 1920 Phillies manager Gravvy Cravath puts himself in as pinch hitter, his 3-run homer and beats New York Giants 3-0
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20 Apr 1922 The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
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20 Apr 1925 29th Boston Marathon won by Charles Mellor of Illinois in 2:33:00.6
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20 Apr 1926 Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film.
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20 Apr 1926 1st check sent by radio facsimile transmission across the Atlantic
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20 Apr 1931 35th Boston Marathon won by Jim Henigan of Massachusetts in 2:46:45.8
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20 Apr 1931 British House of Commons agrees for sports play on Sunday
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20 Apr 1934 Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector Prussian secret state police
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20 Apr 1935 "You're Hit Parade" begins broadcasting (becomes #1 quickly)
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20 Apr 1936 40th Boston Marathon won by Ellison Brown of Rhode Island in 2:33:40.8
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20 Apr 1936 Jews repel an Arab attack in Petach Tikvah Palestine
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20 Apr 1939 Billie Holiday records the first civil rights song "Strange Fruit".
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20 Apr 1939 Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday is celebrated as a national holiday in Nazi Germany.
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20 Apr 1939 New York World's Fair opens
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20 Apr 1939 Ted Williams' 1st hit (off of Yankee Red Ruffing) a double
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20 Apr 1940 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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20 Apr 1941 100 German bombers attack Athens
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20 Apr 1941 Dodgers start to wear liners in their caps
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20 Apr 1942 German occupiers forbid Dutch access to their beach
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20 Apr 1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
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20 Apr 1943 Atlanta Braves manager Casey Stengel is struck by a taxi, fractures a leg
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20 Apr 1944 NFL legalizes coaching from the bench
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20 Apr 1944 Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death
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20 Apr 1945 Cleveland Browns organization formed by Arthur "Mickey" McBride
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20 Apr 1945 US 7th army captured German city of Nuremberg
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20 Apr 1945 Twenty Jewish children used in medical experiments at Neuengamme are killed in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school.
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20 Apr 1945 World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
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20 Apr 1945 World War II: US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
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20 Apr 1945 Soviet troops enter Berlin
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20 Apr 1945 US 7th Army & allies forces capture Nuremberg & Stuttgart in Germany
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20 Apr 1945 German occupiers flood Beemster & Fencer
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20 Apr 1945 US forces conquer Motobu peninsula on Okinawa
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20 Apr 1946 1st baseball broadcast in Chicago, Cards vs. Cubs
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20 Apr 1946 The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
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20 Apr 1946 1st televised baseball broadcast in Chicago, St Louis Cardinals vs Chicago Cubs
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20 Apr 1946 50th Boston Marathon won by Stylianos Kyriakides of Greece in 2:29:27
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20 Apr 1947 Frederik IX becomes King of Denmark
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20 Apr 1948 New York City hikes subway fare from 5 cents to 10 cents
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20 Apr 1948 Walter P Reuther UAW President shot andwounded at his home in Detroit
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20 Apr 1948 UAW president Walter P Reuther shot & wounded at his home in Detroit
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20 Apr 1948 NYC hikes subway fare from 5
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20 Apr 1949 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 1st race, in Albany, California
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20 Apr 1950 Baltimore's Memorial Stadium opens - Orioles of International League
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20 Apr 1951 Dan Gavriliu performs the first surgical replacement of a human organ.
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20 Apr 1951 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak Atoll
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20 Apr 1951 Velsen city council demands investigation of police collaborators
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20 Apr 1953 57th Boston Marathon won by Keizo Yamada of Japan in 2:18:51
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20 Apr 1954 "Golden Apple" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 125 performances
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20 Apr 1955 "Saint of Bleecker St" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 92 performances
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20 Apr 1957 Yankee Bill Skowron becomes 3rd player to hit a ball out of Fenway Park
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20 Apr 1957 61st Boston Marathon won by John J Kelley of Connecticut in 2:20:05
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20 Apr 1958 Buses replace Key System trains at 3 AM
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20 Apr 1958 Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
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20 Apr 1958 Buses replace Key System trains in San Francisco area at 3 AM
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20 Apr 1958 Montr
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20 Apr 1958 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
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20 Apr 1958 Morocco demands departure of Spanish troops
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20 Apr 1959 63rd Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:22:42
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20 Apr 1960 "From A to Z" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 21 performances
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20 Apr 1961 Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
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20 Apr 1961 American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight
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20 Apr 1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to an altitude of 63,250 meters
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20 Apr 1962 New Orleans Citizens Company gives free 1-way ride to blacks to move North
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20 Apr 1962 OAS-leader ex-General Salan arrested in Algiers
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20 Apr 1963 "Sophie" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 8 performances
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20 Apr 1963 All Africa Conferences of Churches opens in Kampala Uganda
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20 Apr 1964 BBC Two launches with a power cut because of the fire at Battersea Power Station.
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20 Apr 1964 86% of black students boycott Cleveland schools
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20 Apr 1964 68th Boston Marathon won by Aurele Vandendriessche of Belgium in 2:19:59
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20 Apr 1965 People's Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid
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20 Apr 1966 WDCA TV channel 20 in Washington DC (IND) begins broadcasting
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20 Apr 1967 US planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during the Vietnam War
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20 Apr 1967 US Surveyor 3 lands on Moon
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20 Apr 1967 French author R
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20 Apr 1967 New York Mets' Tom Seaver's 1st victory, beats Chicago Cubs, 6-1
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20 Apr 1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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20 Apr 1968 English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech.
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20 Apr 1968 Pierre Elliott Trudeau sworn-in as Canada's PM
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20 Apr 1968 South African Airways Boeing 707 crashes at Windhoek, 122 killed
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20 Apr 1969 23rd Tony Awards Great White Hope & 1776 win
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20 Apr 1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
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20 Apr 1970 74th Boston Marathon won by Ron Hill of Great Britain in 2:10:30
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20 Apr 1970 74th Boston Marathon won by Ron Hill of Great Britain in 2:10:30 (new US marathon record)
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20 Apr 1970 Bruno Kreisky becomes 1st socialist chancellor of Austria
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20 Apr 1971 Barbra Streisand records "We've Only Just Begun"
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20 Apr 1971 US Supreme Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial desegregation
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20 Apr 1972 Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands on the moon.
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20 Apr 1972 Apollo 16's Young & Duke land on Moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2
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20 Apr 1972 Kallicharran scores his 2nd Test century in his 2nd Test Cricket
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20 Apr 1973 Canadian ANIK A2 becomes 1st commercial satellite in orbit
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20 Apr 1974 Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run"
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20 Apr 1974 Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run"
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20 Apr 1975 Penguins 1-Islanders 3-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-1 lead
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20 Apr 1975 29th Tony Awards Equus & The Wiz win
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20 Apr 1975 4th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Palmer
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20 Apr 1976 George Harrison sings the lumberjack song with Monty Python
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20 Apr 1977 Supreme Court rules "Live Free or Die" may be covered on NH licenses
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20 Apr 1977 Supreme Court rules "Live Free or Die" may be covered on New Hampshire licenses
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20 Apr 1977 Woody Allen's film "Annie Hall" premieres
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20 Apr 1978 Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets in Russian airspace
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20 Apr 1978 Korean Air Lines Flight 902 is shot down by the Soviet Union.
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20 Apr 1980 Donna White wins LPGA Florida "Lady Citrus" Golf Tournament
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20 Apr 1980 Climax of Berber Spring in Algeria as hundreds of Berber political activists are arrested.
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20 Apr 1980 Cubans begin to arrive in US from Mariel boatlift
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20 Apr 1981 Final performance of TV show "Soap" airs
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20 Apr 1981 Final performance of TV show "Soap" airs
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20 Apr 1981 Rocker Papa John Phillips arrested for drug possession
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20 Apr 1981 10th Boston Women's Marathon won by Allison Roe of New Zealand in 2:26:46
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20 Apr 1982 Atlanta Braves become 1st team to win 1st 12 games of the season
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20 Apr 1983 Rangers 2-Islanders 7-Patrick Division Finals-Islanders hold 3-2 lead
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20 Apr 1983 Soyuz T-8 launched; mission aborted when capsule fails to dock
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20 Apr 1983 President Ronald Reagan signs a $165 billion bail-out for Social Security
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20 Apr 1984 Russian offensive in Panshirvallei Afghanistan
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20 Apr 1984 The Good Friday Massacre, an extremely violent ice hockey playoff game, is played in Montreal, Canada.
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20 Apr 1985 The ATF raids The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in northern Arkansas.
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20 Apr 1985 Karyn Marshall of New York NY lifted 303 lbs in a clean-and-jerk lift
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20 Apr 1985 Carlos Lopes runs world record marathon (2:07:12)
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20 Apr 1985 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mark Williams
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20 Apr 1986 Pianist Vladimir Horowitz performs in his native Russia for the first time in 61 years.
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20 Apr 1986 Michael Jrdan sets NBA playoff record with 63 points in a game
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20 Apr 1986 Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland
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20 Apr 1986 "Jerry's Girls" closes at St James Theater NYC after 139 performances
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20 Apr 1986 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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20 Apr 1987 16th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:25:21
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20 Apr 1987 91st Boston Marathon won by Toshihiko Seko of Japan in 2:11:50
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20 Apr 1987 Sri Lanka Tamils shoot 122 Singalezen dead
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20 Apr 1987 US deports Karl Linnas, charged with nazi war crimes, to USSR
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20 Apr 1988 Yanks HR 9,999 (D Winfield) 10,000 (C Washington) 10,001 (J Clarke)
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20 Apr 1988 Baltimore Orioles set worst record to start a season 0-14 (will go 0-21)
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20 Apr 1988 New Jersey Devils 1st playoff hat trick-Eric Broten
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20 Apr 1988 New York Yankees homerun 9,999 (Dave Winfield) 10,000 (Claudell Washington) 10,001 (Jack Clark)
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20 Apr 1988 US accuses Renamo of killing 100,000 Mozambiquians
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20 Apr 1990 8 2 / 3 inning perfect game pitched by Brian Holman of Oakland Athletics is spoiled by a home run hit by Ken Philips
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20 Apr 1990 Pete Rose pleads guilty to hiding $300,000 in income
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20 Apr 1991 "Les Miserables, " opens at Odense Teater, Odense
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20 Apr 1991 Raghib "Rocket" Ismael signs with Toronto Argonauts for $26.2 million
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20 Apr 1991 1st non stop flight Schiphol-Flamingo airport Bonaire
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20 Apr 1991 Mark Lenzi is 1st diver to score 100 points on a dive (101.85)
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20 Apr 1992 100th episode of "Murphy Brown" airs
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20 Apr 1992 100th episode of "Murphy Brown" airs
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20 Apr 1992 Expo '92 opens in Seville Spain
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20 Apr 1992 21st Boston Women's Marathon won by Olga Markova of Russia in 2:23:43
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20 Apr 1992 96th Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:08:14
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20 Apr 1992 All star concert in memory of Freddie Mercury held at Wembley Stadium London
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20 Apr 1992 Joan Lunden breaks her left shoulder after being thrown from a horse
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20 Apr 1992 Madonna signs $60-million deal with Time Warner
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20 Apr 1993 Uranus passes Neptune (this occurs once every 171 years)
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20 Apr 1994 Danny Harold Rolling, sentenced to death in Florida, for killing 5
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20 Apr 1994 Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed
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20 Apr 1994 Sohail & Inzamam make world record ODI partnership of 263
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20 Apr 1994 Space shuttle STS-59 (Endeavour 6), lands
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20 Apr 1996 Chicago Bulls win record 72 games in a season
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20 Apr 1997 "Gin Game, " opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 144 performances
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20 Apr 1997 "Present Laughter, " closes at Walter Kerr Theater, New York City
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20 Apr 1997 1st baseball game in Hawaii, Cards beat Padres in doubleheader
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20 Apr 1997 Cubs beat the New York Mets ending NL worst opening, lost 14 straight games
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20 Apr 1997 Myrtle Beach LPGA Classic
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20 Apr 1997 PGA Seniors Championship
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20 Apr 1997 1st baseball game in Hawaii, St Louis Cardinals beat San Diego Padres in doubleheader
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20 Apr 1997 27th Easter Seal Telethon raises $47,392,682
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20 Apr 1997 58th PGA Seniors Golf Championship Hale Irwin
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20 Apr 1997 Chicago Cubs beat New York Mets ending National League worst opening, lost 14 straight games
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20 Apr 1997 DL Coburn's "Gin Game", opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 144 performances
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20 Apr 1997 Karrie Webb wins LPGA Susan G Komen International
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20 Apr 1997 Mark McGwire, is 4th to homerun on Detroit Tiger left field roof (others are Frank Howard, Harmon Killibrew, & Cecil Fielder)
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20 Apr 1997 Nick Price wins golf MCI Classic
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20 Apr 1997 No
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20 Apr 1997 PGA Seniors Championship; Hale Irwin wins
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20 Apr 1998 German terrorist group the Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.
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20 Apr 1999 Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 13 people and injured 21 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.
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20 Apr 1999 Deadliest school shooting in US history at Columbine High School, Littleton CO, 13 killed, 23 wounded
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20 Apr 2007 Johnson Space Center shooting: William Phillips with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
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20 Apr 2008 Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
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20 Apr 2010 The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months.
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20 Apr 2012 One hundred twenty-seven people are killed when a plane crashes in a residential area near the Benazir Bhutto International Airport near Islamabad, Pakistan.
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20 Apr 2013 A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing more than 150 people and injuring thousands.
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20 Apr 2015 10 people have been killed in a bomb attack on a convoy carrying food supplies to a United Nations compound in Garowe in the Somali region of Puntland.
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