What are the important events that happened on April 20? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
April 20: Facts & Myths About This Day
April 20 is the 110th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 255 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 7, 2022 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 458,448 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectadecagon’ day.
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Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 277 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 3,407 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 20 Historical Events
- 1535 –The Sun dog phenomenon observed over Stockholm and depicted in the famous painting “Vädersolstavlan”.
- 1653 –Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.
- 1810 –The Governor of Caracas declares independence from Spain.
- 1862 –Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the first pasteurization tests.
- 1871 –The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law.
- 1908 –Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
- 1912 –Opening day for baseball’s Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, and Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1926 –Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film.
- 1939 –Billie Holiday records the first Civil Rights song “Strange Fruit”.
- 1986 –Pianist Vladimir Horowitz performs in his native Russia for the first time in 61 years.
Who were born on April 20?
- 1650 –William Bedloe, English informer (d. 1680)
- 1851 –Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1875)
- 1947 –Ken Scott, English record producer and recording engineer
- 1951 –Luther Vandross, American singer (d. 2005)
- 1957 –Geraint Wyn Davies, Welsh-born Canadian actor
- 1964 –Crispin Glover, American actor
- 1973 –Geoff Lloyd, British radio presenter
- 1973 –Lamond Murray, American basketball player
- 1976 –Aldo Bobadilla, Paraguayan football player
- 1978 –Mirei Kuroda, Japanese gravure idol
Who died on April 20?
- 1176 –Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English military leader (b. 1130)
- 1643 –Christoph Demantius, German composer (b. 1567)
- 1912 –Bram Stoker, Irish author (b. 1847)
- 1929 –Prince Albert Wilhelm Heinrich of Prussia (b. 1862)
- 1944 –Elmer Gedeon, one of two Major League Baseball fatal casualties during World War II.
- 1977 –Sepp Herberger, German football coach (b. 1897)
- 1982 –Archibald MacLeish, American poet and Librarian of Congress (b. 1892)
- 1989 –Doru Davidovici, Romanian writer and fighter pilot (b. 1945)
- 2002 –Alan Dale, American singer (b. 1925)
- 2003 –Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1911)
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