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Events on April 20

• 1526 In the First Battle of Panipat, Babur, a descendant of Genghis Khan and Timur, defeats Ibrahim Lodi, the Sultan of Delhi. With Lodi's death in the battle, the Lodi dynasty ends, and Babur establishes the North Indian Mughal Empire.
• 1792 The French National Assembly declares war on the monarchies of Austria, Prussia and Piedmont-Sardinia.
• 1848 The radical-democratic Hecker uprising is suppressed by Baden troops under Friedrich von Gagern and routed in the engagement at Scheideck in the Black Forest. Friedrich Hecker flees into exile in Switzerland. The first major uprising of the Baden Revolution during the German Revolution has thereby failed.
• 1902 Marie and Pierre Curie succeed in isolating the chemical element radium.
• 1938 The propaganda film Olympia by Leni Riefenstahl, which consists of the two parts Festival of the People and Festival of Beauty and is about the 1936 Olympic Games, premieres in Berlin.
• 1964 In Alba, Italy, the first jar of Nutella, which was renamed Supercrema gianduia for trademark reasons, comes off the line.
• 1972 Four days after the launch of Apollo 16, the lunar module lands on the Moon with commander John Watts Young and pilot Charles Moss Duke.
• 1998 In an eight-page letter to the news agency Reuters, the Red Army Faction (RAF), after 28 years as a “urban guerrilla,” declares its self-dissolution.
• 1999 In the Columbine High School shooting in Columbine near Littleton, Colorado, twelve students between the ages of 14 and 18, one teacher and the two 17- and 18-year-old perpetrators Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris die.
• 2008 The Eisbären Berlin defeat the Kölner Haie in the DEL playoff final and are thereby German ice hockey champions for the third time. With the win of this championship, the era of the Wellblechpalast as a professional venue in German ice hockey ends.
• 2010 In the Gulf of Mexico, the oil platform Deepwater Horizon explodes, causing the largest oil spill in history, with unforeseeable consequences for the environment.
• 2012 The Hamburg Regional Court rules that the internet portal YouTube may no longer make videos of musical works available for which GEMA has asserted rights of use under copyright law.

Born on April 20

• 1851 Torakusu Yamaha, Founder of the Yamaha Corporation
• 1893 Harold Lloyd, American film comedian
• 1893 Joan Miró, Spanish surrealist artist
• 1910 Brigitte Mira, German actress, cabaret artist and chanson singer
• 1951 Luther Vandross, American musician
• 1972 Carmen Electra, American model, actress and singer
• 1973 Gabry Ponte, Italian DJ and music producer
• 1980 Jasmin Wagner („Blümchen“), German pop singer and presenter
• 1981 Michel Abdollahi, German-Persian artist
• 1981 Alexander Stevens, German lawyer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „20. April“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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