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1314Apr 20Clement V, [Bertrand Got], pope (1305-14) who moved papacy to Avignon, died.
1534Apr 20Elizabeth Barton, [St Magd van Kent], British prophet, died.
1653Apr 20Oliver Cromwell dissolved the English parliament. “You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately”¦”
1715Apr 20Nicholas Rowe’s “Tragedy of Lady Jane Gray,” premiered in London.
1770Apr 20Captain Cook arrived in New South Wales, Australia.
1777Apr 20New York adopted a new constitution as an independent state.
1799Apr 20Friedrich Schiller’s “Wallensteins Tod,” the third part of his Wallenstein trilogy, premiered in Weimar.
1839Apr 20Giuseppe Rossini, father of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, died.
1861Apr 20Robert E. Lee resigned from U.S. Army.
1865Apr 20Chicago’s Crosby Opera House opened.
1869Apr 20Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe (72), composer, died.
1888Apr 20246 people were reported killed by hail in Moradabad, India.
1898Apr 20President 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.
1916Apr 20German-British sea battle off Belgian coast.
1917Apr 20In the Pravda newspaper Lenin named Russia “Free land of world.”
1931Apr 20British House of Commons agreed to sports play on Sunday.
1936Apr 20Serious rioting took place on the borders between Jaffa and Tel-Aviv, in particular in the Catton, Manshieh and Saknat Abu Kebir quarters.
1940Apr 20RCA publicly demonstrated its new and powerful electron microscope in Philadelphia, Pa.
1941Apr 20Joni Evans, publisher of Simon & Schuster, Random House, was born in NYC.
1945Apr 20During World War II, Allied forces, the U.S. 7th army, took control of the German cities of Nuremberg and Stuttgart.
1949Apr 20Jockey Bill Shoemaker won his 1st race, in Albany, California.
1951Apr 20Gen. MacArthur addressed a joint session of Congress after being relieved by President Truman.
1961Apr 20American Harold Graham made 1st rocket belt flight.
1962Apr 20The Secret Army Organization (OAS) leader and ex-general Salan was arrested in Algiers.
1967Apr 20U.S. planes bombed Haiphong for first time during the Vietnam War.
1970Apr 20Paul Celan (49), Romania born poet, drowned himself in the Seine. English translations of his poems were published in 2001.
1977Apr 20The 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.
1980Apr 20The first Cubans sailing to the United States as part of the massive Mariel boatlift reached Florida.
1983Apr 20Pres. Reagan signed a $165B bail out for Social Security.
1989Apr 20Ramon Salcido, a California winery worker later convicted of killing six relatives and a co-worker, was deported from Mexico to the U.S.
1990Apr 20Former 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.
1991Apr 20US 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.
1993Apr 20President 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.
1997Apr 20In 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.
1998Apr 20In Columbia a Boeing 727 leased to Air France crashed after takeoff from Bogota and all 53 people aboard were killed.
1999Apr 20Jay Scott Ballinger (36), arrested in Feb., was indicted on charges of burning 10 churches in Indiana and Georgia.
2000Apr 20Littleton, Colorado, paused to remember the victims on the first anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre.
2002Apr 20Representatives 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.
2003Apr 20An Australian navy vessel boarded a North Korean ship off Sydney and charged it with involvement in a $48 million heroin shipment to Victoria.
2004Apr 20The 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.
2005Apr 20Pres. Bush signed new legislation to make individual bankruptcy more difficult.
2006Apr 20Pres. 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.
2007Apr 20Vermont senators voted to call for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, saying their actions have raised “serious questions of constitutionality.”
2008Apr 20Pope Benedict XVI held a Mass at Yankee Stadium on his last day in the US.
2009Apr 20President 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.
2010Apr 20Australia’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.
2011Apr 20US 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.
2012Apr 20Pres. Obama declared some 14,000 acres of California’s Fort Ord a national monument under the 1906 Antiquities Act.
2013Apr 20In 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.
2014Apr 20In Colorado tens of thousands gathered to celebrate the first legal 4:20, the April 20 pot holiday, at Denver’s Civic Center Park.
Source: Timelines of History 

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