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The following events took place on April 20. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 57 events. Showing 31 - 57.

• 1918

  Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
• 1922

  The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
• 1926

  Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film.
• 1939

  Adolf Hitler’s 50th birthday is celebrated as a national holiday in Nazi Germany.
• 1939

  Billie Holiday records the first civil rights song “Strange Fruit”.
• 1945

  World War II: US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
• 1945

  World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
• 1945

  Twenty Jewish children used in medical experiments at Neuengamme are killed in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school.
• 1946

  The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
• 1951

  Dan Gavriliu performs the first surgical replacement of a human organ.
• 1961

  Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
• 1964

  BBC Two launches with a power cut because of the fire at Battersea Power Station.
• 1968

  English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech.
• 1972

  Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands on the moon.
• 1978

  Korean Air Lines Flight 902 is shot down by the Soviet Union.
• 1980

  Climax of Berber Spring in Algeria as hundreds of Berber political activists are arrested.
• 1984

  The Good Friday Massacre, an extremely violent ice hockey playoff game, is played in Montreal, Canada.
• 1985

  The ATF raids The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in northern Arkansas.
• 1986

  Pianist Vladimir Horowitz performs in his native Russia for the first time in 61 years.
• 1998

  German terrorist group the Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.
• 1999

  Columbine 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.
• 2007

  Johnson 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.
• 2008

  Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
• 2010

  The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months.
• 2012

  One hundred twenty-seven people are killed when a plane crashes in a residential area near the Benazir Bhutto International Airport near Islamabad, Pakistan.
• 2013

  A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China’s Sichuan province, killing more than 150 people and injuring thousands.
• 2015

  10 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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