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Daily Calendar for Sunday, April 20, 2014

Died

  • George Clinton (became first U.S. vice president to die in office) –
  • Bram Stoker (author) –
  • Benny Hill (comedian) –
  • Christopher Robin Milne (son of A.A. Milne, basis for the Winnie the Pooh character Christopher Robin) –
  • Dorothy Height (civil rights activist; she stood on the platform with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during his historic I Have a Dream” speech”) –

Born

  • Daniel Chester French (sculptor) –
  • Stanley Marcus (retailer) –
  • Lionel Hampton (jazz musician) –
  • Ryan O'Neal (actor) –
  • Jessica Lange (actress) –
  • Don Mattingly (baseball player) –
  • Felix Baumgartner (daredevil) –
  • Shemar Moore (actor) –
  • Joey Lawrence (actor) –
  • Funny Cide (thoroughbred race horse, won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes in 2003) –

Events

  • Hot Springs Reservation (now National Park) was established in Arkansas–
  • French scientists Pierre and Marie Curie isolated radium chloride from pitchblende–
  • Boston’s Fenway Park hosted its first professional baseball game. The Boston Red Sox played the New York Highlanders (now the Yankees).–
  • Electron microscope demonstrated to public–
  • Pierre Elliott Trudeau was sworn in as 15th Prime Minister of Canada–
  • 54-pound 8-ounce freshwater drum caught in Nickajack Lake, Tennessee–
  • During a fishing trip, an upset swamp rabbit approached President Carter’s boat, Plains, GA–
  • Tony Gemignani spun 17.6 ounces of dough for 2 minutes to form pizza base 33.2 inches wide, in Minneapolis, Minnesota–
  • New York Yankee’s Aaron Hicks threw 105.5 mph ball from left field, setting baseball record–

Weather

  • A San Antonio hailstorm severely injured ten soldiers and killed two horses–
  • Six inches of snow in northern New Hampshire–
  • Deadly F3 tornado touched down in Utica, Illinois–
  • Ice out, Lake Winnipesaukee, NH–

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