Today In History - April 20

850 Guntherus becomes bishop of Cologne
1505 Jews are expelled from Orange Burgandy by Philibert of Luxembourg
1551 John Dudley becomes English Earl Marshal
1650 VOC-management sets new guidelines
1653 Cromwell routes English parliament to house
1715 Nicholas Rowe's "Tragedy of Lady Jane Gray," premieres in London
1770 Capt Cook arrives in New South Wales
1775 British begin siege of Boston
1777 New York adopts new constitution as an independent state
1792 France declares war on Austria, Prussia and Sardinia
1799 Friedrich von Schiller's "Wallensteins Tod," premieres in Weimar
1809 Napoleon I defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria
1836 Territory of Wisconsin created
1853 Harriet Tubman starts Underground Railroad
1861 Battle of Norfolk, Virginia
1861 Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from Union army
1865 Chicago's Crosby Opera House opens
1872 SF Bar Association organized
1884 Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Freemasonry"
1888 246 reported killed by hail in Moradabad, India
1894 136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase
1898 U.S. Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota opens
1902 Marie and Pierre Curie isolate radioactive element radium
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in St. Louis
1908 12th Boston Marathon won by Tom Morrissey of New York in 2:25:43.2
1910 Cleveland Indians Addie Joss 2nd no-hitter, beats Chicago, 1-0
1910 Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km
1912 Fenway Park officially opens, Red Sox beat New York Highlanders 7-6 in 11
1912 Tiger Stadium in Detroit opens, Tigers beat Cleveland Indians 6-5
1914 18th Boston Marathon won by James Duffy of Canada in 2:25:01.2
1914 33 killed by soldiers during mine strike in Ludlow, Colo
1916 German-British sea battle off Belgian coast
1920 7th modern Olympic games opens in Antwerp Belgium
1920 Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate
1920 Big Show ends 2 year run on NBC radio
1920 Tornadoes kill 219 in Alabama and Mississippi
1925 29th Boston Marathon won by Charles Mellor of Illinois in 2:33:00.6
1926 1st check sent by radio facsimile transmission across Atlantic
1931 35th Boston Marathon won by Jim Henigan of Mass in 2:46:45.8
1931 British House of Commons agrees for sports play on Sunday
1934 Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector Prussian secret state police
1936 40th Boston Marathon won by Ellison Brown of RI in 2:33:40.8
1936 Jews repel an Arab attack in Petach Tikvah Palestine
1939 New York World's Fair opens
1941 100 German bombers attack Athens
1941 Dodgers start to wear liners in their caps
1942 German occupiers forbids Dutch access to their beach
1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
1943 Braves manager Casey Stengel is struck by a taxi, fractures a leg
1944 Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death
1944 NFL legalizes coaching from bench
1945 Cleveland Browns organization formed by Arthur "Mickey" McBride
1945 German occupiers flood Beemster and Fencer
1945 Soviet troops enter Berlin
1945 U.S. 7th army captured German city of Nuremberg
1945 U.S. forces conquer Motobu peninsula on Okinawa
1946 50th Boston Marathon won by Stylianos Kyriakides of Greece in 2:29:27
1947 Frederik IX becomes king of Denmark
1948 New York City hikes subway fare from 5 cents to 10 cents
1948 Walter P Reuther UAW President shot and wounded at his home in Detroit
1949 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 1st race, in Albany, California
1950 Baltimore's Memorial Stadium opens - Orioles of International League
1951 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1951 Velsen city council demands investigation of police collaborators
1953 57th Boston Marathon won by Keizo Yamada of Japan in 2:18:51
1954 "Golden Apple" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 125 performances
1955 "Saint of Bleecker St" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 92 performances
1957 61st Boston Marathon won by John J Kelley of Connecticut in 2:20:05
1957 Yankee Bill Skowron becomes 3rd player to hit a ball out of Fenway
1958 Buses replace Key System trains at 3 AM
1958 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1958 Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
1959 63rd Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:22:42
1960 "From A to Z" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 21 performances
1961 American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight
1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 63,250 m
1962 New Orleans Citizens Co gives free 1-way ride to blacks to move North
1962 OAS-leader ex-general Salan arrested in Algiers
1963 "Sophie" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 8 performances
1963 All Africa Conferences of Churches opens in Kampala Uganda
1964 68th Boston Marathon won by Aurele Vandendriessche of Belg in 2:19:59
1964 86% of black students boycott Cleveland schools
1965 People's Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid
1967 French author Regis Debray caught in Bolivia
1967 New York Met Tom Seaver's 1st victory, beats Cubs, 6-1
1967 U.S. planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during Vietnam War
1967 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
1968 Pierre Elliott Trudeau sworn-in as Canada's PM
1968 South Africa Boeing 707 crashes at Windhoek, 122 killed
1969 23rd Tony Awards: Great White Hope and 1776 win
1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1970 74th Boston Marathon won by Ron Hill of Great Britain in 2:10:30
1970 Bruno Kreisky becomes 1st socialist chancellor of Austria
1970 Ron Hill's 2:10:30 at Boston, sets new U.S. marathon record
1971 Barbra Streisand records "We've Only Just Begun"
1971 U.S. Supreme Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial desegregation
1972 Apollo 16's Young and Duke land on Moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2
1972 Kallicharran scores his 2nd Test century in his 2nd Test Cricket
1973 Canadian ANIK A2 becomes 1st commercial satellite in orbit
1974 Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run"
1975 29th Tony Awards: Equus and Wiz win
1975 4th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Palmer
1975 Penguins 1-Isles 3-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-1 lead
1976 George Harrison sings lumberjack song with Monty Python
1977 Supreme Court rules "Live Free or Die" may be covered on NH licenses
1977 Woody Allen's film "Annie Hall" premieres
1978 Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets in Russian airspace
1980 Cubans begin to arrive in U.S. from Mariel boatlift
1980 Donna White wins LPGA Florida "Lady Citrus" Golf Tournament
1981 10th Boston Women's Marathon won by Allison Roe of NZ in 2:26:46
1981 85th Boston Marathon won by Toshihiko Seko of Japan in 2:09:26
1981 Final performance of TV show "Soap" airs
1981 Rocker Papa John Phillips arrested for drug possession
1982 Atlanta Braves become 1st team to win 1st 12 games of the season
1983 President Reagan signs a $165B bail out for Social Security
1983 Rangers 2-Isles 7-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 3-2 lead
1983 Soyuz T-8 launched; mission aborted when capsule fails to dock
1984 Russian offensive in Panshirvallei Afghanistan
1985 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mark Williams
1985 Karyn Marshall of New York City lifted 303 lbs in a clean and jerk lift
1986 "Jerry's Girls" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 139 performances
1986 Michael Johnson sets NBA playoff record with 63 points in a game
1986 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland
1987 16th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:25:21
1987 91st Boston Marathon won by Toshihiko Seko of Japan in 2:11:50
1987 Sri Lanka: Tamils shoot 122 Singalezen dead
1987 U.S. deports Karl Linnas, charged with nazi war crimes, to U.S.S.R.
1988 New Jersey Devils 1st playoff hat trick-Eric Broten
1988 U.S. accuses Renamo of killing 100,000 Mozambiquians
1991 "Les Miserables," opens at Odense Teater, Odense
1991 1st non stop flight Schiphol-Flamingo airport Bonaire
1991 Raghib "Rocket" Ismael signs with Toronto Argonauts for $26.2 million
1992 100th episode of "Murphy Brown" airs
1992 21st Boston Women's Marathon won by Olga Markova of Russia in 2:23:43
1992 96th Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:08:14
1992 All star concert in memory of Freddie Mercury held at Wembley Stadium
1992 Expo '92 opens in Seville Spain
1992 Joan Lunden, breaks her left shoulder after being thrown from a horse
1992 Madonna signs $60-million deal with Time Warner
1994 Danny Harold Rolling, sentenced to death in Florida, for killing 5
1994 Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed
1994 Sohail and Inzamam make world record ODI partnership of 263
1996 Chicago Bulls win record 72 games in a season
1997 "Gin Game," opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 144 performances
1997 "Present Laughter," closes at Walter Kerr Theater New York City
1997 1st baseball game in Hawaii, Cards beat Padres in doubleheader
1997 27th Easter Seal Telethon raises $47,392,682
1997 58th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Hale Irwin
1997 Cubs beat New York Mets ending NL worst opening, lost 14 straight games
1997 Karrie Webb wins LPGA Susan G Komen International
1997 Myrtle Beach LPGA Classic
1997 Nick Price wins golf MCI Classic
1997 PGA Seniors Championship

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