April 20th in History
1441: During the Council of Florence, Pope Eugenius IV issues the bull "Etsi non dubitemus," which asserts the superiority of the pope over the Councils
1775: British begin siege of Boston As a result, New York adopts new constitution as an independent state
1782: Netherlands recognizes US
1902: Marie Curie isolate radioactive element radium
1929: The first Italian parliament made up completely from Mussolinis Fascists opens
1945: Soviet troops enter Berlin
1961: Revolt in the South African country of Angola


April 20th birthdays
121: Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor
1745: Philippe Pinel, First psychiatrist
1889: Adolf Hitler, Dictator of Germany
1893: Harold Lloyd, American silent film star
1893: Joan Miro, Spanish artist
1941: Ryan O'Neal, American actor
1949: Jessica Lange American actress

April 21st in History
0: Romulus and Remus found Rome
1789: John Adams sworn in as first US Vice President, 9 days before Washington is sworn in as president
1898: Spanish-American War begins
1961: French army revolts in Algeria
1972: Apollo 17, the last Apollo mission lands on the Moon.
1989: 100,000 chinese students gather for quiet protest in Tiananmen Square


April 21st birthdays
1782: Friedrich Froebel, German educationalist
1816: Charlotte Bronte, British writer
1838: John Muir, American naturalist
1864: Max Weber, German sociologist
1915: Anthony Quinn, American actor
1926: Elizabeth II, British Queen
1935: Charles Grodin, American actor

April 22nd in History
1500: The area that became Brazil is discovered by Portuguese explorers
1954: Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings began Red scare starts
1955: Congress orders all US coins bear motto "In God We Trust"


April 22nd birthdays
1451: Isabella I of Castile, Queen of Spain and patron of Christopher Columbus
1724: Immanuel Kant, German philosopher
1766: Madame de Stael, French writer
1870: Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov (aka Lenin), Russian leader
1904: Robert Oppenheimer, Inventor of atomic bomb
1916: Yehudi Menuhin, Violinist
1937: Jack Nicholson, American actor

April 23rd in History
1348: English order of knighthood founded
1661: King Charles II crowned the King of Great Britain and Ireland
1965: The USSR launch its first communications satellite
1967: Russian Vladimir Komarov becomes the first man to make two spaceflights
1984: The United States announce the discovery of the AIDS virus


April 23rd birthdays
1564: William Shakespeare, English playwright
1775: J.M Turner, English artist
1858: Max Planck, German physicist
1899: Vladimir Nabokov, Russian/American writer
1926: James Donleavey, Irish novelist
1928: Shirley Temple, American film star

April 24th in History
1792: "La Marseillaise", which later becomes the French national anthem, composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle
1800: Library of Congress established with $5,000 allocation
1953: British PM Winston Churchill knighted by the Queen
1961: JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs
1961: General de Gaulle of France order a blockade of Algeria
1970: China becomes the 5th nation to launch a satellite into orbit
1981: IBM-PC introduced
1985: Israel begins the third stage of its troop removal from Lebanon


April 24th birthdays
1934: Shirley MacLaine, American actress
1942: Barbra Streisland, American singer and actress

April 25th in History
1792: Guillotine used for the first time in France on a highwayman
1859: Work begins on the Suez Canal, Egypt
1961: Robert Noyce patents integrated circuit
1982: In accordance with Camp David, Israel completes Sinai withdrawl


April 25th birthdays
1599: Oliver Cromwell, English civil war leader and Lord Protector
1874: Guglielmo Marconi, Inventor of radio
1908: Edward R Murrow, American journalist
1918: Ella Fitzgerald, US jazz singer
1940: Al Pacino, American actor

April 26th in History
1514: Copernicus makes his observations of Saturn
1937: German-made planes destroy Basque town of Guernica in Spain. The massacre is later painted by Picasso
1964: Tanzania formed with the merger of two countries
1986: An accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant leads to widespread nuclear contamination


April 26th birthdays
1785: John James Audubon, American naturalist painter
1798: Eugene Delacroix, French artist
1822: Frederick Law Olmsted, American architect
1894: Rudolf Hess, German Nazi leader
1933: Carol Burnett, American actress

April 27th in History
1773: British Parliament passes the Tea Act. It doesn't fly well in Boston
1937: First US social security payment made The AARP should celebrate
1937: The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco USA opens
1941: Athens, Greece, captured by the German army
1960: France grants Togo independence, kicking off the end of the colonial age
1961: Sierra Leone, in Africa, becomes an independent republic
1989: Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China


April 27th birthdays
1759: Mary Godwin/Shelley, Author of the novel 'Frankenstein'
1791: Samuel Morse, Inventor of Morse Code
1822: Ulysses S.Grant, Former (18th) American President
1896: Louis Victor de Broglie, French physicist and philosopher
1932: Anouk Aimee, French actress

April 28th in History
1788: Maryland becomes the 7th state to ratify the constitution
1789: Mutiny on the Bounty
1855: First veterinary college in US incorporated in Boston
1945: Italian dictator Benito Mussolini shot by Italian partisans
1952: The United States end their occupation of Japan.
1969: General de Gaulle resigns as President of France
2001: Dennis Tito, a millionaire, becomes the first space tourist.


April 28th birthdays
1442: Edward IV, english king
1758: James Monroe, American president
1878: Lionel Barrymore, American actor
1906: Kurt G䥬, czech mathematician
1926: Harper Lee, American author
1941: Ann Margret, Swedish actress
1945: Bernito Mussolini, Italian fascist leader
1991: Ken Curtis, American actor

April 29th in History
1429: The seige of Orleans is lifted by Joan of Arc
1852: First edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published
1913: The modern form of the zip fastener is patented
1945: The German armed foces in Italy surrender to the allies
1975: US Forces pull out of Vietnam


April 29th birthdays
1854: Henri Poincare, French mathematician
1863: William Randolph Hearst, American publisher
1899: 'Duke' Ellington, US bandleader
1901: Emperor Hirohito of Japan
1907: Fred Zinneman, American director
1937: Saddam Hussein, Iraqi leader
1957: Daniel Day Lewis, British actor
1957: Michelle Pfeiffer, American film actress