The April 20th is the 110e Jour of the Année (111e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

1 to 1900

• 1534 : Jacques Cartier, which was put at the head to find the road of North to reach the India S without passing by the long one and perilous road of the South, starts from Saint-Malo with two small buildings, and the support of the king François Ier, with the research of the passage. Failing this, he will discover the Canada and the Labrador.

• 1789 : Elections of the appointed of Artois to the General states with Arras.
• 1792 : Reading of the Report/ratio on the general organization of the state education presented to the constituent Assembly by Condorcet.
• 1814 : Good-byes of Napoleon to the imperial Guard in the court of the white horse of the Castle of Fontainebleau, departure for the isle of Elba.
• 1887 : Affaire Schnaebelé, a French police superintendent is removed by German police officers, which carries out the two countries at the edge of the war.

20th century

• 1902 :

• Pierre and Marie Curie insulates the Radium.
• the first exposure of Art nouveau opens its doors with Paris.
• 1912 :
• the ship Carpathia makes its entry in the port of New York with the 703 survivors of the Titanic.
• Inauguration of the " Fenway Park " of Boston (Residence of Red Sox of Boston, MLB).
• 1828 : the explorer Rene Caillié enters to Tombouctou. He will be the first not-Moslem to return from the city.
• 1940 : The American engineer of Russian origin Vladimir Zworykin makes a demonstration of sound Electron microscope, which can enlarge the objects 100.000 times.
• 1949 : The World congress of the Partisans of Peace, with Paris, of the World council of Peace.
• 1960 : Inauguration of Brasilia.
• 1972 : The Orion module of the mission Apollo 16 is posed in the middle of the lunar mountains .
• 1980 :
• Last of a series of 3388 representations of Grease with Broadway.
• Berber Spring, Algeria.
• 1986 : With Málaga (Spain), alternate of Jose Miguel Delgado Stream known as “Joselito”, Spanish Matador.
• 1990 : First of a series of ten representations of Starmania in Soviet Union.
• 1992 : Opening of the World Fair of Seville by the king Juan Carlos of Spain.
• 1995 : Transfer of ashes of Pierre and Marie Curie to the the Pantheon of Paris
• 1999:
• has Littleton, Colorado, the USA, Massacre of the Corsica college of Columbine
• In , fire of the straw hut “At Francis”, on order of the Préfet Bernard Bonnet.

21e century

• 2006 : Claude Larose leaves his post of head of the municipal political party municipal Renouveau of Quebec to Quebec.

Births

• 1646 : Charles Plumier, botanist and traveller French († 1704)
• 1739: William Bartram, American naturalist († 1823)
• 1745: Philippe Pinel, French psychiatrist († October 25th 1826)
• 1786: Marc Seguin, engineer and inventor French († 1875)
• 1798: William Edmond Logan, Canadian geologist
• 1808: Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon III) († January 9th 1873)
• 1824: Peter Martin Duncan, British paleontologist
• 1868: Charles Maurras, journalist, essay writer, politician and poet French († November 16th 1952)
• 1889: Adolf Hitler, Politician and Führer of the Third German Reich († April 30th 1945)
• 1890: Maurice Duplessis, Prime Minister for Quebec († September 7th 1959)
• 1893:
• Jacques Chastenet ( Jacques Chastenet de Castaing ), historian, diplomat, journalist and academician French († 1978)
• Joan Miró, painter and Spanish sculptor († December 25th 1983)
• Harold Lloyd, American actor
• 1895: Henry de Montherlant, French writer
• 1900: Fred Raymond, Austrian author of operettas
• 1908: Lionel Hampton, American musician
• 1913: Irene Joachim, soprano Frenchwoman
• 1923: Tito Puente, very popular American musician of Latin music. († May 31st 2000)
• 1945: Gregory Olsen, American space tourist
• 1946: Julien Poulin, actor and actor Québécois
• 1949: Jessica Lange, American actress.
• 1950 : Alexandre General and politicking Lebed , Russian († 2002)
• 1951: Luther Vandross, American drunk singer († July 1st 2005)
• 1955: Donald Pettit, American astronaut
• 1962: Anna Galore, French novelist
• 1972:
• Wouter Van Bellingen, Flemish politician
• Carmen Electra, actress, mannequin, and American singer

Death

• 1194 : Odon de Poznań, duke of Large-Poland
• 1313: Boleslas II of Mazovie, Polish duke of Mazovie
• 1314: Clement V ( Bertrand de Got ), pope (°C. 1264)
• 1671: Daniel Hay of Chastelet, French writer (French academician, Armchair 37) (° October 23rd 1596)
• 1759: Georg Friedrich Haendel, German musician naturalized British (° February 23rd 1685)
• 1769: Pontiac, chief of the tribe Outaouais (° 1714)
• 1820: Arthur Young, British farmer , member of the royal company of London (° September 11th 1741)
• 1862: Pepete (Jose Dámaso Rodríguez there Rodríguez), Spanish Matador (° December 11th 1824)
• 1872: Ljudevit Gaj, writer and Croatian politician.
• 1883 : Wilhelm Peters, zoologist and an Exploring German (° April 22nd 1815)
• 1885: Gustav Nachtigal, exploring German (° February 23rd 1834)
• 1912: Bram Stoker, Irish writer (° November 8th 1847)
• 1932: Giuseppe Peano, Mathematician Italy N (° August 27th 1858)
• 1947: Christian X of Denmark, king de Danemark and of Iceland (° September 26th 1870)
• 1962: Paul Ernest Bilkey, Canadian Journalist (° January 26th 1878).
• 1991 : Gift Siegel, realizer states-unien (° October 26th 1912)
• 1994: Jean Carmet, French actor (° July 25th 1920)
• 2001: Maurice Lauré, high-civil servant and fiscalist French (° 1917)
• 2001: Giuseppe Sinopoli, leader and Italian type-setter (° 1946)
• 2002: Francis Lemarque ( Nathan Korb ), French type-setter (° November 25th 1917)
• 2002: Pierre Rapsat, composer-songwriter and Belgian singer (° May 28th 1948)
• 2004: Lizzy Draper Descloux, French singer (° 1956)
• 2007:
• Michael Fu Tieshan, 76 years, Chinese bishop, chief of the “official Church” of China (° November 3rd 1931).
• Mokhtar Latiri, 81 years, engineer and senior official Tunisia N (° 1926)

1176 - Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl off Pembroke, English soldier (B. 1130)

1521 - Zhengde, Emperor off Clouded (B. 1491)

1534 - Elizabeth Barton, English nun (executed)

1558 - Johannes Bugenhagen, German to reform (B. 1485)

1643 - Christoph Demantius, German to compose (B. 1567)

1703 - Lancelot Addison, English royal chaplain (B. 1632)

1765 - Abigail Williams, American to show in the Salem witch trials (B. 1674)

1831 - John Abernethy, English sucker (B. 1764)

1873 - William Tite, English architect (B. 1798)

1899 - Joseph Wolf, German artist (B. 1820)

1918 - Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize prize winner (B. 1850)

1947 - King Christian X off Denmark (B. 1870)

1951 - Ivanoe Bonomi, Premium Minister off Italy (B. 1873)

1982 - Archibald MacLeish, American poet and Librarian off Congress (B. 1892)

1984 - Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer (B. 1943)

1991 - Steve Marriott, British musician and actor (B. 1945)

• 1992 - Benny Hill, British comedian (B. 1924)

• 1993 - Cantinflas, Mexican comedian and actor (B. 1911)
• 1996 - Christopher Robin Milne, his off A.A. Milne (B. 1920)
• 1999 - Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist and comedian (B. 1896)
• 2001 - Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and to compose (B. 1946)
• 2002 - Alan Paves, American singer (B. 1925)
• 2003 - Ruth Hauls, American playwright and actress (B. 1908)
• 2003 - Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, container off the Nobel Prize of medicine (B. 1911)
• 2005 - Fumio Niwa, Japanese writer (° November 22nd 1904)

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Celebrations

International day of the Man

• the official site

Tafsut N Imazighen: The Berber Spring

First name

• Serv (Breton first name)

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

• Theodore Trichinas (4th-5th century), monk with Constantinople.
• Marcellin d' Embrun († 374), bishop.

Catholic saints of the day

• Odette
• Giraud

Orthodoxe saint of the day

• Gabriel de Bielostok († 1690), battered child.

See too

• April 20th in sport
• April 20th in the railroads

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