April 20 Historical Events
The following events took place on April 20. The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 57 events. Showing 31 - 57.
- 1918Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
- 1922The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
- 1926Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film.
- 1939Adolf Hitler’s 50th birthday is celebrated as a national holiday in Nazi Germany.
- 1939Billie Holiday records the first civil rights song “Strange Fruit”.
- 1945World War II: US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
- 1945World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
- 1945Twenty Jewish children used in medical experiments at Neuengamme are killed in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school.
- 1946The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
- 1951Dan Gavriliu performs the first surgical replacement of a human organ.
- 1961Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
- 1964BBC Two launches with a power cut because of the fire at Battersea Power Station.
- 1968English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech.
- 1972Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands on the moon.
- 1978Korean Air Lines Flight 902 is shot down by the Soviet Union.
- 1980Climax of Berber Spring in Algeria as hundreds of Berber political activists are arrested.
- 1984The Good Friday Massacre, an extremely violent ice hockey playoff game, is played in Montreal, Canada.
- 1985The ATF raids The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in northern Arkansas.
- 1986Pianist Vladimir Horowitz performs in his native Russia for the first time in 61 years.
- 1998German terrorist group the Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.
- 1999Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 13 people and injured 21 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.
- 2007Johnson Space Center shooting: William Phillips with a handgun barricades himself in NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
- 2008Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
- 2010The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months.
- 2012One hundred twenty-seven people are killed when a plane crashes in a residential area near the Benazir Bhutto International Airport near Islamabad, Pakistan.
- 2013A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China’s Sichuan province, killing more than 150 people and injuring thousands.
- 201510 people are killed in a bomb attack on a convoy carrying food supplies to a United Nations compound in Garowe in the Somali region of Puntland.
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