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Saturday 2024-04-20 Bahrain time
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Upcoming International days

• 20 April Chinese Language Day
• 21 April World Creativity and Innovation Day
• 22 April International Mother Earth Day
• 23 April World Book and Copyright Day [UNESCO]
• 23 April English Language Day
• 23 April Spanish Language Day
• 24 April World Immunization Week, 24-30 April [WHO]
• 24 April International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace
• 25 April World Malaria Day
• 25 April International Delegate’s Day
• 26 April World Intellectual Property Day
• 26 April International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day

Upcoming National days

• 23 April Aragon (Spain)
• 23 April England (United Kingdom)
• 25 April Italy

Happened this day (20 April) * Source Wikipedia

- Pre-1600
- 673 Emperor Tenmu of Japan assumes the Chrysanthemum Throne at the Palace of Kiyomihara in Asuka.
- 1206 Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
- 1600 The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden: five Swedish noblemen are publicly beheaded in the aftermath of the War against Sigismund (1598–1599).
- 1601–1900
- 1602 The Dutch East India Company is established.
- 1616 Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
- 1760 The Great Boston Fire of 1760 destroys 349 buildings.
- 1815 After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
- 1848 German revolutions of 1848–49: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.
- 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.
- 1854 The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin, US.
- 1861 An earthquake destroys Mendoza, Argentina.
- 1883 The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed.
- 1888 The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
- 1890 Chancellor of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck is dismissed by Emperor Wilhelm II.
- 1896 With the approval of Emperor Guangxu, the Qing dynasty post office is opened, marking the beginning of a postal service in China.
- 1901–present
- 1913 Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party, is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.
- 1916 Albert Einstein submits his paper, "The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity", which establishes his general theory of relativity, to the journal Annalen der Physik.
- 1921 The Upper Silesia plebiscite, mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland, is held.
- 1922 The USS ;Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
- 1923 The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States.
- 1926 Chiang Kai-shek initiates a purge of communist elements within the National Revolutionary Army in Guangzhou.
- 1933 Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordered the creation of Dachau concentration camp as Chief of Police of Munich and appointed Theodor Eicke as the camp commandant.
- 1942 World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".
- 1948 With a Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini, are given on CBS and NBC.
- 1951 Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded.
- 1952 The US Senate ratifies the Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan.
- 1956 Tunisia gains independence from France.
- 1964 The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organisation) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
- 1969 A United Arab airlines (now Egyptair) Ilyushin Il-18 crashes at Aswan international Airport, killing 100 people.
- 1972 The Troubles: The first car bombing by the Provisional IRA in Belfast kills seven people and injures 148 others in Northern Ireland.
- 1985 Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
- 1985 Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
- 1987 The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.
- 1988 Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.
- 1990 Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.
- 1993 The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb kills two children in Warrington, England. It leads to mass protests in both Britain and Ireland.
- 1995 The Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo carries out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, killing 13 and wounding over 6,200 people.
- 1999 Legoland California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California, US.
- 2000 Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after murdering Georgia sheriff's deputy Ricky Kinchen and critically wounding Deputy Aldranon English.
- 2003 Iraq War: The United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland begin an invasion of Iraq.
- 2006 Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Déby.
- 2010 Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland begins eruptions that would last for three months, heavily disrupting air travel in Europe.
- 2012 At least 52 people are killed and more than 250 injured in a wave of terror attacks across ten cities in Iraq.
- 2014 Four suspected Taliban members attack the Kabul Serena Hotel, killing at least nine people.
- 2015 A Solar eclipse, equinox, and a supermoon all occur on the same day.
- 2015 Syrian civil war: The Siege of Kobanî is broken by the People's Protection Units (YPG) and Free Syrian Army (FSA), marking a turning point in the Rojava–Islamist conflict.
- 2019 Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is sworn in as acting president of Kazakhstan, following the resignation of long-time president Nursultan Nazarbayev.