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On this day in history -
20th April
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Births
1782 - Douglas, Elizabeth
1800 - Douglas-Pennant, Edward Gordon (1st Baron of Penrhyn) Hon
1824 - Douglas, Count Carl Israel of
1837 - Douglas, Mrs Hamilton
1924 - Douglas, Floyd Stanley
Births on this day
Deaths
1795 - Douglas, Amelia
1797 - Douglass, William
1852 - Douglass, Levi Lewis
1857 - Douglas, Hon Caroline Lucy
1943 - Douglas, Edward
1943 - Douglas, Joseph
1947 - Douglas, Percy Melville
1773 - Douglas, Emma Ellen
Deaths on this day
Events
1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by Pope
Boniface VIII.
1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.
1657 – Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet
under heavy fire at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
1689 – Deposed monarch James II of England lays siege to Derry.
1752 – Start of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in the
Burmese Civil War (1740–57).
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Siege of Boston begins,
following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
1789 – George Washington arrives at Grays Ferry, Philadelphia
while en route to Manhattan for his inauguration.
1792 – France declares war against the "King of Hungary and
Bohemia", the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
1800 – The Septinsular Republic is established.
1810 – The Governor of Caracas, Venezuela declares independence
from Spain.
1836 – U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin
Territory.
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.
1876 – The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks
European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition
for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
1898 – U.S. President William McKinley signed a joint resolution
to Congress for declaration of War against Spain, beginning the
Spanish–American War.
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.
1945 – World War II: U.S. troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only
to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
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.
1946 – The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most
of its power to the United Nations.
1961 – Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of
US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
1972 – Apollo program: Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands
on the moon.
Events on this day
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