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<noinclude>{{On this day/doc}}</noinclude>'''[[{{#titleparts:{{PAGENAME}}|1|2}}April 20]]''':
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*[[1719]] – '''[[French period]]''': The [[Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville|Sieur de Bienville]], French governor at [[Mobile]], received orders to seize Pensacola.
*[[1826]] – Commodore '''[[Lewis Warrington]]''' assumed command of the [[Pensacola Navy Yard]].
*[[1913]] – Three aircraft and a detachment of fifteen men left from the '''[[Naval Aeronautical Station]]''' for Tampico aboard the USS ''Birmingham''.
*[[1967]] – '''[[Cordova Cinemas]]''' opened.