On This Day: Sunday April 20, 2014 This is the 110th day of the year, with 255 days remaining in 2014. Holidays Feast day of St. Caedwalla,St. Agnes of Montepulciano, St. Marcellinus of Embrun, St. Marcian of Auxerre, St. Hildegund, and St. Peter of Verona. Events 1534 - French explorer Jacques Cartier arrived on the coast of Labrador, North America. 1792 - France declared war on Austria, marking the start of the French Revolutionary wars. 1836 - The Territory of Wisconsin was established by Congress. 1871 - Congress authorized President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial law, impose heavy penalties against terrorist organizations, and use military force to suppress the Ku Klux Klan. 1879 - The first mobile home (horse-drawn) was used in a journey from London to Cyprus. 1902 - Scientists Pierre Curie and Marie Curie isolated the radioactive chemical element, radium. 1916 - Wrigley Field opened in Chicago. 1934 - Shirley Temple made her movie debut in Stand Up and Cheer. 1940 - RCA publicly demonstrated its new and powerful electron microscope. 1945 - Allied forces took control of the German cities of Nuremberg and Stuttgart in World War II. 1969 - Pierre Trudeau became Prime Minister of Canada. 1971 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools. 1999 - The Columbine High School massacre took place in Littleton, Colorado. Students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot and killed 12 classmates and one teacher and wounded 26 others before taking their own lives. Births 1745 - Philippe Pinel, French physician, founder of psychiatry. 1850 - Daniel Chester French, American sculptor of Lincoln Memorial. 1889 - Adolf Hitler, German Nazi dictator (1933-1945). 1937 - George Takei, American television actor. 1951 - Luther Vandross, American R&B singer and songwriter. 1961 - Don Mattingly, American baseball player. 1972 - Carmen Electra (born Tara Leigh Patrick), American actress. Deaths 1912 - Bram Stoker, Irish author of Dracula. 1992 - Benny Hill (born Alfred Hawthorne Hill), British comedian. 1999 - Señor Wences (born Wenceslao Moreno), Spanish ventriloquist and comedian.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 17:15:27 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015