Template:On This Day (nonfiction)/April 20

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  • 1653: Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.

    1653: Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.

  • 1902: Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.

    1902: Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.

  • 1918: Physicist and academic Karl Ferdinand Braun dies. Braun contributed significantly to the development of radio and television technology, sharing the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Guglielmo Marconi "for their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".

    1918: Physicist and academic Karl Ferdinand Braun dies. Braun contributed significantly to the development of radio and television technology, sharing the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Guglielmo Marconi "for their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".

  • 1932: Mathematician Giuseppe Peano dies. He did pioneering work in mathematical logic and set theory.

    1932: Mathematician Giuseppe Peano dies. He did pioneering work in mathematical logic and set theory.

  • 1945: Mathematician Georg Feigl dies. He worked on the foundations of geometry and topology, studying fixed point theorems for n-dimensional manifolds. Feigl was one of the initial authors of the Mathematisches Wörterbuch.

    1945: Mathematician Georg Feigl dies. He worked on the foundations of geometry and topology, studying fixed point theorems for n-dimensional manifolds. Feigl was one of the initial authors of the Mathematisches Wörterbuch.

  • 1961: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.

    1961: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.

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