page_title: April 1920
section_title: April 16, 1920 (Friday)
hierarchical_section_title: April 1920 / April 16, 1920 (Friday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Robert Stroud, Federal prisoner.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in April 1920:
context_section_description: The first overseas airplane flight from the United States took place when a flying boat carried freight from Miami to Nassau in the Bahamas.
  The death sentence of Robert Stroud, who would become famous as the "Birdman of Alcatraz", was commuted to life imprisonment by U.S. President Wilson.
  Childers Classical Institute, founded near Abilene, Texas in 1906 and built on land owned by J. W. Childers, was renamed as Abilene Christian College after the Childers family was paid $4,000 by the institute's board of trustees.  In 1976, it would receive its present name of Abilene Christian University.
  Died: Theodore N. Vail, 75, American businessman who served as the first President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and developed the A T & T monopoly
caption: Stroud
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