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Today is Friday, April 20, the 110th day of 2018. There are 255 days left in the year.
1505 — Jews are expelled from Orange Burgundy by Philibert of Luxembourg
1653 — Cromwell routes English parliament to house
1715 — Nicholas Rowe’s "Tragedy of Lady Jane Gray," premieres in London
1770 — Captain Cook arrives in New South Wales
1809 — Napoleon I defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria
1841 — First detective story (Poe’s "Murders in the Rue Morgue") published
1902 — Marie & Pierre Curie isolate radioactive element radium
1903 — 7th Boston Marathon won by John Lorden of Massachusetts in 2:41:29.8
