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Events from History on April 20

1960 : "From A to Z" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 21 performances
1997 : "Gin Game," opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 144 performances
1954 : "Golden Apple" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 125 performances
1986 : "Jerry's Girls" closes at St James Theater NYC after 139 performances
1991 : "Les Miserables," opens at Odense Teater, Odense
1997 : "Present Laughter," closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC
1955 : "Saint of Bleecker St" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 92 perfs
1963 : "Sophie" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 8 performances
1997 : (others are Frank Howard, Harmon Killibrew, & Cecil Fielder)
1941 : 100 German bombers attack Athens
1992 : 100th episode of "Murphy Brown" airs
1981 : 10th Boston Women's Marathon won by Allison Roe of NZ in 2:26:46
1908 : 12th Boston Marathon won by Tom Morrissey of NY in 2:25:43.2
1894 : 136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase
1987 : 16th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:25:21
1914 : 18th Boston Marathon won by James Duffy of Canada in 2:25:01.2
1946 : 1st baseball broadcast in Chicago, Cards vs Cubs
1926 : 1st check sent by radio facsimile transmission across Atlantic
1841 : 1st detective story (Poe's "Murders in Rue Morgue") published
1940 : 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia, Pa
1879 : 1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London & Cyprus
1991 : 1st non stop flight Schiphol-Flamingo airport Bonaire
1992 : 21st Boston Women's Marathon won by Olga Markova of Russia in 2:23:43
1888 : 246 reported killed by hail in Moradabad, India
1997 : 27th Easter Seal Telethon raises $47,392,682
1925 : 29th Boston Marathon won by Charles Mellor of Ill in 2:33:00.6
1139 : 2nd Lateran Council (10th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1963 : -30] All Africa Conferences of Churches opens in Kampala Uganda
1914 : 33 killed by soldiers during mine strike in Ludlow, Colo
1931 : 35th Boston Marathon won by Jim Henigan of Mass in 2:46:45.8
1871 : 3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus)
1936 : 40th Boston Marathon won by Ellison Brown of RI in 2:33:40.8
1975 : 4th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Palmer
1946 : 50th Boston Marathon won by Stylianos Kyriakides of Greece in 2:29:27
1953 : 57th Boston Marathon won by Keizo Yamada of Japan in 2:18:51
1957 : 61st Boston Marathon won by John J Kelley of Conn in 2:20:05
1959 : 63rd Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:22:42
1964 : 68th Boston Marathon won by Aurele Vandendriessche of Belg in 2:19:59
1970 : 74th Boston Marathon won by Ron Hill of Great Britain in 2:10:30
1903 : 7th Boston Marathon won by John Lorden of Mass in 2:41:29.8
1981 : 85th Boston Marathon won by Toshihiko Seko of Japan in 2:09:26
1964 : 86% of black students boycott Cleveland schools
1987 : 91st Boston Marathon won by Toshihiko Seko of Japan in 2:11:50
1992 : 96th Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:08:14
1903 : Al Orth & Washington
1992 : All star concert in memory of Freddie Mercury held at Wembley Stadium
1961 : American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight
1920 : Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate
1988 : Balt Orioles set worst record to start a season 0-14 (will go 0-21)
1950 : Balt's Memorial Stadium opens - Orioles of International League
1971 : Barbra Streisand records "We've Only Just Begun"
1657 : Battle in Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife: English fleet under
1861 : Battle of Norfolk, VA
1920 : Big Show ends 2 year run on NBC radio
1943 : Braves manager Casey Stengel is struck by a taxi, fractures a leg
1775 : British begin siege of Boston
1931 : British House of Commons agrees for sports play on Sunday
1970 : Bruno Kreisky becomes 1st socialist chancellor of Austria
1958 : Buses replace Key System trains at 3 AM
1973 : Canadian ANIK A2 becomes 1st commercial satellite in orbit
1770 : Capt Cook arrives in New South Wales
1865 : Chicago's Crosby Opera House opens
1910 : Cleve Indians Addie Joss 2nd no-hitter, beats Chicago, 1-0
1945 : Cleveland Browns organization formed by Arthur "Mickey" McBride
1861 : Colonel Robert E Lee resigns from Union army
1702 : Comet C/1702 H1 approaches within 0.0437 AUs of Earth
1653 : Cromwell routes English parliament to house
1980 : Cubans begin to arrive in US from Mariel boatlift
1994 : Danny Harold Rolling, sentenced to death in Florida, for killing 5
1999 : Deadliest school massacre in US History to date. 15 fatalities
1941 : Dodgers start to wear liners in their caps
1944 : Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death
1992 : Expo '92 opens in Seville Spain
1912 : Fenway Park officially opens, Red Sox beat NY Highlanders 7-6 in 11
1981 : Final performance of TV show "Soap" airs
1985 : Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mark Williams
1792 : France declares war on Austria, Prussia & Sardinia
1947 : Frederik IX becomes king of Denmark
1967 : French author R‚gis Debray caught in Bolivia
1799 : Friedrich von Schiller's "Wallensteins Tod," premieres in Weimar
1904 : George Bernard Shaw's "Candida," premieres in London
1976 : George Harrison sings lumberjack song with Monty Python
1945 : German occupiers flood Beemster & Fencer
1942 : German occupiers forbids Dutch access to their beach
1916 : German-British sea battle off Belgian coast
1910 : Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km
1853 : Harriet Tubman starts Underground Railroad
1934 : Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector Prussian secret state police
1505 : Jews are expelled from Orange Burgandy by Philibert of Luxembourg
1936 : Jews repel an Arab attack in Petach Tikvah Palestine
1992 : Joan Lunden, breaks her left shoulder after being thrown from a horse
1551 : John Dudley becomes English Earl Marshal
1896 : John Philip Sousa's "El Capit n," premieres in NYC
1972 : Kallicharran scores his 2nd Test century in his 2nd Test Cricket
1985 : Karyn Marshall of NYC lifted 303 lbs in a clean & jerk lift
1978 : Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets in Russian airspace
1904 : Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in St Louis
1992 : Madonna signs $60-million deal with Time Warner
1902 : Marie & Pierre Curie isolate radioactive element radium
1991 : Mark Lenzi is 1st diver to score 100 pts on a dive (101.85)
1997 : Mark McGwire, is 4th to HR on Detroit Tiger left field roof
1958 : Morocco demands departure of Spanish troops
1809 : Napoleon I defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria
1799 : Napoleon issues a decree calling for establishing Jerusalem for Jews
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
1777 : New York adopts new constitution as an independent state
1939 : New York World's Fair opens
1715 : Nicholas Rowe's "Tragedy of Lady Jane Gray," premieres in London
1988 : NJ Devils 1st playoff hat trick-Eric Broten
1967 : NY Met Tom Seaver's 1st victory, beats Cubs, 6-1
1948 : NYC hikes subway fare from 5› to 10›
1990 : Oakland A's is spoiled by a home run hit by Ken Philips
1962 : OAS-leader ex-general Salan arrested in Algiers
1974 : Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run"
1975 : Penguins 1-Isles 3-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-1 lead
1965 : People's Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid
1990 : Pete Rose pleads guilty to hiding $300,000 in income
1920 : Phillies mgr Gravvy Cravath puts himself in as pinch hitter, his 3-
1968 : Pierre Elliott Trudeau sworn-in as Canada's PM
1919 : Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army
1884 : Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Freemasonry"
1917 : Pravda (Lenin names Russia "Free land of world")
1983 : Pres Reagan signs a $165B bail out for Social Security
1991 : Raghib "Rocket" Ismael signs with Toronto Argonauts for $26.2 million
1983 : Rangers 2-Isles 7-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 3-2 lead
1657 : Robert Blake sinks Spanish silver fleet
1981 : Rocker Papa John Phillips arrested for drug possession
1970 : Ron Hill's 2:10:30 at Boston, sets new US marathon record
1920 : run homer beats NY Giants 3-0
1984 : Russian offensive in Panshirvallei Afghanistan
1968 : S Afr Boeing 707 crashes at Windhoek, 122 killed
1994 : Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed
1872 : SF Bar Association organized
1994 : Sohail & Inzamam make world record ODI partnership of 263
1945 : Soviet troops enter Berlin
1983 : Soyuz T-8 launched; mission aborted when capsule fails to dock
1994 : Space shuttle STS-59 (Endeavour 6), lands
1987 : Sri Lanka: Tamils shoot 122 Singalezen dead
1977 : Supreme Court rules "Live Free or Die" may be covered on NH licenses
1939 : Ted Williams' 1st hit (off of Yankee Red Ruffing) a double
1836 : Territory of Wisconsin created
1912 : Tiger Stadium in Detroit opens, Tigers beat Cleve Indians 6-5
1920 : Tornadoes kill 219 in Alabama & Mississippi
1993 : Uranus passes Neptune (once every 171 years)
1945 : US 7th army captured German city of Nuremberg
1988 : US accuses Renamo of killing 100,000 Mozambiquians
1898 : US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota opens
1987 : US deports Karl Linnas, charged with nazi war crimes, to USSR
1945 : US forces conquer Motobu peninsula on Okinawa
1967 : US planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during Vietnam War
1971 : US Supreme Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial desegregation
1967 : US Surveyor 3 lands on Moon
1951 : Velsen city council demands investigation of police collaborators
1986 : Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland
1650 : VOC-management sets new guidelines
1948 : Walter P Reuther UAW pres shot & wounded at his home in Detroit
1966 : WDCA TV channel 20 in Washington, DC (IND) begins broadcasting
1916 : Weeghman Park (Wrigley Field) in Chicago opens, Cubs beat Cin Reds 7-6
1977 : Woody Allen's film "Annie Hall" premieres
1957 : Yankee Bill Skowron becomes 3rd player to hit a ball out of Fenway
1988 : Yanks HR 9,999 (D Winfield) 10,000 (C Washington) 10,001 (J Clarke)
2003 : India: 7 militants killed in Kunch in J & K

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