1641 – Richard Montagu, English clergyman, dies at 64
1826 – Franz Danzi, German composer and cellist, dies at 62
1853 – Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (Gmelin’s test), dies at 64
1855 – Henry De la Beche, English geologist, dies at 59
1910 – William Orchardson, British painter, dies at 78
1959 – Eduard van Beinum, Dutch musician and conductor, dies at 58
1984 – Richard Hurndall, British actor (Doctor Who, The Inheritors, It’s Murder But Is It Art), dies from a heart attack at 73
1990 – Luis Trenker, South Tyrolean film producer, director and actor (Berge in Flammen), dies at 97
1993 – Barry Karas, American actor, dies of leukemia at 49
1994 – Taleb Ali al-Suheil, Iran sheik, murdered in Lebanon at 64
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Historical Events for 13th April 2020
1842 – Lord Rosse successfully casts 72″ (183-cm) mirror for a telescope
1896 – John Philip Sousa’s “El Capitan” premieres at the Tremont Theatre in Boston
1919 – British troops open fire on demonstrators in Amritsar, India, killing 350
1945 – Red Army occupies Vienna
1957 – Saturday postal delivery in US is temporarily halted due to lack of funds
1972 – 1st baseball players’ strike ends after 13 days
1975 – Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war
1991 – BPAA US Open by Pete Weber
2002 – Pedro Carmona, interim president of Venezuela, resigns one day after taking office
2019 – BTS is the first K-pop band to perform on US TV show “Saturday Night Live”
Today in History for 13th April 2020
Historical Events
989 – Battle at Abydos: Byzantine emperor Basilius II beats Bardas Phocas
1911 – The US House of Representatives votes to institute direct elections of senators to Congress, a step towards direct democracy
1945 – Canadian army liberates Teuge and Assen, Netherlnds, from Nazis
1962 – Stan Musial scores his 1,869th run, a new NL record
1979 – Longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours
1997 – Travis Fryman homers off R Hernandez in both games of double header 1st time since 1961 that 2 doubleheaders are played in the same city Giants vs Mets and Oakland A’s vs Yankees in NY
Famous Birthdays
1799 – Ludwig Rellstab, German music theorist, born in Berlin (d. 1860)
1830 – Eduard Lassen, Belgian-Danish composer, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1904)
1873 – Theodore F. Morse, American composer, born in Washington D.C. (d. 1924)
1897 – Werner Voss, German World War I flying ace, born in Krefeld, Germany (d. 1917)
1942 – Ataol Behramoğlu, Turkish poet and writer, born in Çatalca, Istanbul Province, Turkey
1965 – Patricio Pouchulu, Argentine architect, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Famous Deaths
1612 – Sasaki Kojirō, Japanese samurai, dies at 27
1695 – Jean de la Fontaine, French poet (Fables), dies at 73
1880 – Robert Fortune, Scottish botanist, dies at 67
1978 – Paul McGrath, American actor (Witness, No Time for Love), dies at 74
1997 – Dorothy Frooks, American author and military figure, dies at 101
2005 – [Salvador] Tutti Camarata, American composer and producer (Vic Damone Show), dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 12th April 2020
1675 – Richard Bennett, English Colonial Governor of Virginia, dies at 65
1795 – Rainieri de Calzabigi, Italian librettist and poet, dies at 80
1797 – Josef Antonin Stepan, Bohemian composer, dies at 71
1959 – James Gleason, American writer and actor (Bishop’s Wife, Flying Fool), dies at 76
1971 – Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (b. 1931)
1974 – Carl Jaffe, German actor (1st Man in Space, Escapement), dies at 72
1981 – Hans Chemin-Petit, German composer, dies at 78
1996 – William Wilkinson, English conservationist and businessman, dies at 63
1996 – Marthe Robert, essayist/translator, dies at 82
2012 – Andrew Love, American saxophonist (The Memphis Horns), dies of Alzheimer’s disease at 70
Historical Events for 12th April 2020
1883 – French troops under lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes occupy Bamako Senegal
1926 – Dutch Catholic Radio Broadcast (KRO) forms
1942 – Japan kills about 400 Filipino officers in Bataan
1946 – Syria gains independence from France
1953 – KFDX TV channel 3 in Wichita Falls, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 – 8th NBA Championship: Min Lakers beat Syracuse Nationals, 4 games to 3
1954 – 18th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Sam Snead wins his 3rd and final Masters by 1 stroke in an 18-hole playoff with Ben Hogan
2012 – Civilian rule in Mali is returned after Dioncounda Traore is sworn in as interim president
2012 – A ceasefire in the 2011-2012 Syrian uprising comes into effect
2016 – Breakthrough Starshot: Scientists and internet entrepreneurs, including Yuri Milner, Stephen Hawking and Mark Zuckerberg, announce interstellar project to send robot spacecraft to Alpha Centauri
Today in History for 12th April 2020
Historical Events
1654 – Ordinance of Union between England and Scotland passed by the Council of State
1907 – Belgium government of De Stain de Naeyer resigns
1946 – LPGA Titleholders Championship Women’s Golf, Augusta CC: Louise Suggs wins her first major title by 2 strokes from Eileen Stulb
1957 – USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1959 – France Observator reports torture practice by French army in Algeria
2016 – Breakthrough Starshot: Scientists and internet entrepreneurs, including Yuri Milner, Stephen Hawking and Mark Zuckerberg, announce interstellar project to send robot spacecraft to Alpha Centauri
Famous Birthdays
1838 – John Shaw Billings, American librarian and surgeon, born in Allensville, Switzerland County, Indiana (d. 1913)
1852 – Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician (Proving π is a transcendental number), born in Hannover, German Confederation (d. 1939)
1939 – Alan Ayckbourn, English playwright and director, born in London, England
1956 – Herbert Grönemeyer, German singer (Mensch, Spruenge), born in Göttingen, Germany
1956 – Doris Baaten, Dutch actress (Sesame Street, Fien), born in Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
1964 – Amy Ray, American singer and songwriter (Indigo Girls), born in Decatur, Georgia
Famous Deaths
1687 – Ambrose Dixon, Virginia Colony pioneer
1898 – Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Roman catholic archbishop of Quebec (b. 1820)
1942 – Johannes E Akkeringa, Dutch painter/etcher, dies at 80
1961 – Philippine “Pine” Belder, [Mary de Klerk], actress, dies at 93
1972 – C W Ceram, [Kurt Marek], German/American writer (1st American), dies at 57
2013 – Michael France, American screenwriter, dies from complications from diabetes at 51
Famous Deaths for 11th April 2020
1854 – Karl Adolph von Basedow, German artist (Ziekte van Basedow), dies at 55
1908 – Henry Bird, English Chess player and author (b. 1829)
1991 – Walker Cooper, American baseball catcher (MLB All-Star 1942–44, 46–50; World Series 1942, 44; St. Louis Cardinals), dies at 76
1991 – Tom Rosqui, dies at 62
1996 – Daniel Wolf, American journalist, dies at 80
1996 – Louis Osman, artist/goldsmith/craftsman, dies at 82
1996 – Edwin Clarke, historian/neurologist, dies at 76
2003 – Cecil Howard Green, British geophysicist and businessman (b. 1900)
2018 – Mitzi Shore [Lillian Saidel], American owner of The Comedy Store and founder of The Comedy Channel, dies at 87
2019 – Frances Swem Anderson, American technologist (nuclear medicine), dies at 105
Historical Events for 11th April 2020
1750 – Jack Slack retains Champion of England boxing title, beats Frenchman Jean Petit in 7 rounds in Harlston, England; acknowledged as first international prize fight
1924 – 1st men’s college swimming championships begin
1941 – Germany blitzes Coventry, England
1956 – Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater in racial incident
1961 – Bob Dylan makes his 1st appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village
1972 – Benjamin L Hooks named to FCC
1984 – Chinese troops invade Vietnam
1990 – Angels Mark Langston and Mike Witt, no-hit Seattle, 1-0
2004 – 68th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Phil Mickelson claims his first major title with a birdie on the final hole to win by 1 stroke over Ernie Els of South Africa
2016 – UN-backed ceasefire comes into effect in Yemen conflict between Iranian-backed Houthis rebels and government forces
Today in History for 11th April 2020
Historical Events
1079 – Bishop Stanislaus of Krakow is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland
1895 – Anaheim completes its new electric light system
1941 – Germany blitzes Coventry, England
1961 – Austrian 4th and last government of Raab resigns
1963 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1993 – 450 prisoners riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continue for ten days, citing grievances about prison conditions and the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis)
Famous Birthdays
1916 – Dan Fortmann, American football guard (Chicago Bears), born in Pearl River, New York (d. 1995)
1927 – Domenico Guaccero, Italian composer, born in Palo de Colle, Italy (d. 1984)
1951 – Robbie House, American rocker (Snuff)
1966 – Lisa Stansfield, English pop singer (Around the World), born in Manchester, England
1966 – Mark Higgs, American football running back (Arizona Cardinals), born in Owensboro, Kentucky
1973 – Reggie Tongue, American football safety (KC Chiefs), born in Baltimore, Maryland
Famous Deaths
1034 – Romanus III Argyrus, Byzantine emperor (1028-34), assassinated by wife at 66 or 67
1853 – Louis Emmanuel Jadin, French composer, dies at 124
1908 – Henry Bird, English Chess player and author (b. 1829)
1967 – Donald Sangster, Jamaican prime-minister (b. 1911)
2006 – Proof, American rapper (D12) (b. 1973)
2019 – Monkey Punch [Kazuhiko Kato], Japanese manga cartoonist (Lupin III), dies of pneumonia at 81
Famous Deaths for 10th April 2020
947 – Hugo van Arles, count of Arles/king of Italy, dies
1712 – Yusuf Nabi, Turkish poet (Hayriye), dies at about 77
1823 – Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (elementary philosophy), dies at 65
1862 – William Harvey Lamb Wallace, American lawyer and Brigadier General, dies at 40
1939 – Alfredo Panzini, Italian author (Il Bacio de Lesba), dies at 75
1945 – Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Dutch artist (The Blue Barge) and resistance fighter, executed at 63
1954 – Auguste Lumière, French photograph and movie pioneer, dies at 81
1955 – Oskar Frederik Lindberg, composer, dies at 68
1968 – Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (b. 1899)
2011 – Homer Smith, American football coach (b. 1931)