On this day in history - 20th April

 

 

Edward and Joseph Douglas, both of the 28th Maori Battalion were killed on the same day, in the same unit and in the same action.
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Births

1782 - Douglas, Elizabeth
1800 - Douglas-Pennant, Edward Gordon (1st Baron of Penrhyn) Hon
1824 - Douglas, Count Carl Israel of
1837 - Douglas, Mrs Hamilton
1924 - Douglas, Floyd Stanley

Births on this day

Deaths

1795 - Douglas, Amelia
1797 - Douglass, William
1852 - Douglass, Levi Lewis
1857 - Douglas, Hon Caroline Lucy
1943 - Douglas, Edward
1943 - Douglas, Joseph
1947 - Douglas, Percy Melville
1773 - Douglas, Emma Ellen

Deaths on this day

Events

1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII.
1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.
1657 – Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
1689 – Deposed monarch James II of England lays siege to Derry.
1752 – Start of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in the Burmese Civil War (1740–57).
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
1789 – George Washington arrives at Grays Ferry, Philadelphia while en route to Manhattan for his inauguration.
1792 – France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
1800 – The Septinsular Republic is established.
1810 – The Governor of Caracas, Venezuela declares independence from Spain.
1836 – U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory.
1861 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia.
1876 – The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
1898 – U.S. President William McKinley signed a joint resolution to Congress for declaration of War against Spain, beginning the Spanish–American War.
1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
1945 – World War II: U.S. troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
1946 – The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
1961 – Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
1972 – Apollo program: Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands on the moon.

Events on this day

 

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