April 20- Marcus Aurelius born
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Topic: April 20- Marcus Aurelius born
Posted By: Komnenos
Subject: April 20- Marcus Aurelius born
Date Posted: 20-Apr-2006 at 02:27
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April 20 is the 110th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (111th in leap years). There are 255 days remaining.
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Posted By: Dark Age
Date Posted: 20-Apr-2006 at 09:22
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1139 The Second Lateran Council opens in Rome. 1657 English Admiral Robert Blake fights his last battle when he destroys the Spanish fleet in Santa Cruz Bay. 1769 Ottawa Chief Pontiac is murdered by an Indian in Cahokia. 1770 Captain Cook discovers Australia. 1775 British troops begin the siege of Boston. 1792 France declares war on Austria, Prussia, and Sardinia. 1809 Napoleon defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria. 1836 The Territory of Wisconsin is created. 1841 Edgar Allen Poe's first detective story is published. 1861 Robert E. Lee resigns from the U.S. Army. 1879 The first mobile home (horse-drawn) is used in a journey from London to Cyprus. 1916 Wrigley Field opens in Chicago. 1919 The Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from the Soviets. 1940 The first electron microscope is demonstrated. 1942 Pierre Laval, the premier of Vichy France, in a radio broadcast, establishes a policy of "true reconciliation with Germany." 1945 Soviet troops begin their attack on Berlin. 1951 General MacArthur addresses a joint session of Congress after being relieved by President Truman. 1953 Operation Little Switch begins in Korea, the exchange of sick and wounded prisoners of war. 1962 The New Orleans Citizens Committee gives free one-way ride to blacks to move North. 1967 U.S. planes bomb Haiphong for first time during the Vietnam War. 1999 Two students enter Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado and open fire with multiple firearms, killing 13 students and teachers, wounding 25 and eventually shooting themselves. Born on April 20 121 Marcus Aurelius, 16th Roman emperor, philosopher. 1745 Philippe Pinel, founder of psychiatry. 1807 Aloysius Bertrand ("Gaspard de la Nuit"), French poet. 1808 Louis-Napoleon (Napoleon III), emperor of France. 1850 Daniel Chester French, sculptor. 1889 Adolf Hitler, Facist dictator of Nazi Germany (1933-1945). 1893 Harold Lloyd, film comedian. 1893 Joan Miró, Spanish painter. 1927 Alex Muller, Nobel Prize-winning physicist. http://www.historynet.com/tih/tih0420/ -------------  |
Posted By: Behi
Date Posted: 20-Apr-2006 at 11:18
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31 Farvardin, 10: Mahestan parliament salscted Ardavan ( Artabanus II ) as Shahanshah of Iran.  http://www.parthia.com/artabanus2.htm - http://www.parthia.com/artabanus2.htm http://www.iranianshistoryonthisday.com/FARSI.ASP?u=&I1.x=22&I1.y=15&GD=20&GM=4 - http://www.iranianshistoryonthisday.com/FARSI.ASP?u=&I1. x=22&I1.y=15&GD=20&GM=4 ------------- |
Posted By: Isbul
Date Posted: 20-Apr-2006 at 16:22
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1971-The 10th congress of BCP(Bulgarian communist party) start a new program wich was for the "historical duty" of the party "to build and develope the socialist comunity".The program is characterised like " historycal needed stage on the way from capitalism to communism".In this period there will be " a great jump in the manifactory power" because of the use of the scientific/tech revolution.Ofcourse BCP will be the guiding power.In the program was proclaimed that "the care for the people is the main duty of the party and its policy"Also there was a directives for the 6th five years plan wich this time will be focus on the fast developing of the machinebuilding, metalurgy, energetic and chemical industries. 1961- A new declaration of the bulgarian goverment was publicated "because of the armed agression of USA agains Cuba".In it it is stated that the goverment is ready "to take, together with the other countries, the nessesary measures for the aid of Cuba, in case the agression agains her dont cease" 1944- another anglo-american bombing og Sofia. ------------- 
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Posted By: mamikon
Date Posted: 20-Apr-2006 at 16:27
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1994 - The Russian Duma (the lower house of the bicameral Russian legislature) voted to recognize the Armenian Genocide
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