Quick glance of 20 April in the pages of History

April 20: Here are the major events that occurred on 20 April….

• 20 April, 1236: Iltutmish, father of Raziya Sultan, died in Delhi.
• 20 April, 1611: First known performance of Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth at the Globe Theatre, London, recorded by Simon Forman.
• 20 April, 1736: French mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis begins Lapland expedition to measure latitude and shape of the earth, joined by fellow scientists Anders Celsius, Charles Etienne Louis Camus, Alexis Clairaut, and Pierre-Charles Le Monnier.

• 20 April, 1792: Amidst the French Revolution, France declares war on Austria and Prussia, beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.
• 20 April, 1862: First pasteurization test completed by Bacteriologist Frenchmen Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard.
• 20 April, 1887: Padmabhushan Jemini Roy, famous painter, was born.

• 20 April, 1887: World’s 1st motor race takes place. Georges Bouton wins the world’s 1st motor race on a steam-powered quadricycle, a ‘test’ organised by French newspaper Le Velocipede.
• 20 April, 1930: The Viceroy imposes an ordinance for the suppression of terrorism, following a series of attacks.

• 20 April, 1954: Panchsheel agreement between China and India.
• 20 April, 1965: First Indian team led by M. S. Kohli ascends the Mount Everest.
• 20 April, 1971: Air India started Boeing 707 Jumbo Jet flight between Bombay and London.
• 20 April, 1971: India won Cricket Test Rubber’ for the first time after defeating West Indies Cricket Team.
• 20 April, 1971: R. S. Pathak, Chief Justice of India, elected to the World Court.

• 20 April, 2000: A full bench of the Madras High Court quashes the Tamil Nadu Government order making Tamil (or mother tongue) as the compulsory medium of instruction in all schools in the State up to Standard V.
• 20 April, 2012: Plane crash near Islamabad, Pakistan, kills 127 people.