20 Aprile
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The 20t o Aprile is the 110t day o the year (111t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 255 days ti come.
Events
- 1534 - Jacques Cartier sets sail tae Canadae frae Fraunce.
- 1689 - James VII, Keeng o Scots lays siege tae Derry, present-day Northren Ireland.
- 1887 - The first car race takes place, frae Paris tae Versailles.
- 1902 - Marie an Pierre Curie refine radium.
- 1920 - The 1920 Simmer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium, stairt.
- 1934 - The Scots Naitional Pairty is offeecially formed.
- 1945 - Warld War II: Unitit States troops captur Leipzig.
- 1947 - Frederick IX o Denmark becomes King.
- 1964 - BBC Two launches.
- 1968 - Pierre Trudeau becomes Prime meenister o Canadae for the first time.
- 1968 - Breetish politeecian Enoch Powell haulds his "Rivers o Blood" speech.
- 1972 - Apollo 16 launds on the Muin.
- 1999 - The Columbine High School massacre is committit in Littleton, Colorado.
- 2005 - Alfredo Palacio becomes Preses o Ecuador.
- 2010 - The Deepwater Horizon ile rig splodes aff Louisiana, killin 11 fowk an causin a massive spill.
- 2012 - A plane crash near Islamabad, Pakistan, kills 127 fowk.
- 2013 - A yirdquauk in Sichuan, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae, kills at least 160 fowk.
- 2013 - Giorgio Napolitano is electit tae a seicont term as Preses o Italy.
Births
- 1586 - Saunt Rose o Lima, Peruvian saunt (d. 1617)
- 1808 - Napoleon III o Fraunce (d. 1873)
- 1809 - James David Forbes, Scots pheesicist an glaciologist (d. 1868)
- 1839 - Carol I o Romanie (d. 1914)
- 1851 - Young Tom Morris, Scots gowfer (d. 1875)
- 1889 - Adolf Hitler, Nazi leader (d. 1945)
- 1893 - Joan Miro, Catalan penter (d. 1983)
- 1896 - Sheina Marshall, Scots marine biologist (d. 1977)
- 1918 - Kai Siegbahn, Swadish pheesicist (d. 2007)
- 1936 - Pauli Ellefsen, Prime meenister o the Faroe Islands (d. 2012)
- 1936 - Alex Harley, Scots fitbawer (d. 1969)
- 1937 - George Takei, American actor
- 1939 - Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norse politeecian
- 1942 - Arto Paasilinna, Finnish writer (d. 2018)
- 1942 - Jimmy Wilson, Scots fitbawer
- 1943 - Alan Beith, Inglish politeecian
- 1945 - Thein Sein, umwhile Preses o Myanmar
- 1949 - Jessica Lange, American actress
- 1952 - Eric Pickles, Inglish politeecian
- 1960 - Miguel Diaz-Canel, Preses o Cuba
- 1962 - Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson, umwhile Prime meenister o Iceland
- 1964 - Andy Serkis, Inglish actor
- 1972 - Carmen Electra, American actress, sangster an model
- 1976 - Shay Given, Erse fitbawer
- 1981 - Mike Blair, Scots rugby union player an coach
- 1983 - Miranda Kerr, Australie model
- 1992 - Guy Learmonth, Scots athlete
- 1997 - Alexander Zverev Jr., German tennis player
Daiths
- 1314 - Pape Clement V (b. 1264)
- 1713 - John Hay, 2nt Marquess o Tweeddale, Scots nobleman (b. 1645)
- 1720 - George Gordon, 1st Yerl o Aiberdeen Laird Chancellor o Scotland (b. 1637)
- 1812 - George Clinton, Vice Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1839)
- 1819 - Charles Montagu-Scott, 4t Duke o Buccleuch, Scots laundawner, cricketer an politeecian (b. 1772)
- 1912 - Bram Stoker, Erse writer (b. 1847)
- 1918 - Karl Ferdinand Braun, German pheesicist (b. 1850)
- 1935 - John Cameron, Scots fitbawer (b. 1872)
- 1936 - William Brown Macdougall, Scots airtist (b. 1868)
- 1947 - Christian X o Denmark (b. 1870)
- 1992 - Benny Hill, Inglis comedian (b. 1924)
- 1993 - Cantinflas, Mexican comedian an actor (b. 1911)
- 2011 - Allan Brown, Scots fitbawer (b. 1926)
- 2013 - Struther Arnott, Scots molecular biologist an chemist (b. 1934)
- 2016 - Victoria Wood, Inglis actress, comedienne an writer (b. 1953)
- 2018 - Avicii, Swadish DJ an muisic producer (b. 1989)
Halidays
- 4-20 in Cannabis cultur
- Unitit Naitions Cheenese leid Day
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