April 20

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on April 20. From 1900 until now. April 20 is under the sign of Taurus. Famous birthdays on this day include Miranda Kerr (1983), Carmen Electra (1972) and Jessica Lange (1949). Several movies were released around April 20 over the years, such as Ein Robinson in 1940 directed by Arnold Fanck and Frequency in 2000 directed by Gregory Hoblit.
But much more happened on April 20 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

USA- National High Five Day
Blessed Oda (d. 1158)
Saint Victor (d.303)
Saint Marcellinus
Ridv�n begins at sunset (Bah�'f Faith).
Festival of Matsu, Southeast Asia (2006).
Astrology: First day of sun sign Taurus.
Islam - Muhammad's Birthday observed in (2004)
April 20 (4/20) is associated with 420 (cannabis culture).
Saint Theotimus (died 407)
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2019 War in Afghanistan (2001–present): In Kabul, seven are killed after suicide bombers and gunmen attack the communications ministry. (BBC)
2018 Syrian Civil War: ISIL agrees to hand over control of Yarmouk Camp in southern Damascus to the Syrian Army in return for safe passage to ISIL-held territory in the Syrian Desert, bringing the predominantly Palestinian refugee district under government control for the first time since 2012. (The Washington Post)
2017 One policeman has been killed and another has been critically injured after a man opened fire at police officers at the Champs-Élysées in central Paris. The gunman was killed while attempting to escape, and a bystander has been injured. ISIL claims responsibility for the attack although the claim is doubted. The President of France Francois Hollande says that all leads indicate that the attack was of a "terrorist nature". (ABC News America via Yahoo!) (BBC), (The New York Times) (Le Parisien)
2016 War in Afghanistan (2001–present): April 2016 Kabul attack: The death toll from yesterday's Taliban attack on the National Directorate of Security in Kabul rises to 64, with 347 others wounded, according to the Afghan Interior Ministry. (Reuters)
2015 Somali Civil War (2009–present): Nine people have been killed in a bomb attack on a convoy carrying food supplies to a United Nations compound in Garowe in the Somali region of Puntland. (Reuters)
2014 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine:: Three people are killed in an attack on check post in Eastern Ukraine manned by pro-Russian supporters. (Al Jazeera)
2013 War in North-West Pakistan:: A female suicide bomber kills four and injures four outside a hospital in Khaar, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. (PTI via The Hindu)
2012 Arab Spring:
2011 2011 Libyan civil war:
2010 The Deepwater Horizon oil well explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last five months.
2009 Oracle announces it will acquire Sun Microsystems for more than US$7 billion.
2008 Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
2007 Johnson Space Center Shooting: A man with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
2006 May – Human Genome Project publishes the last chromosome sequence, in ''Nature''.
2005 Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell signs a bill making same-sex civil unions legal. Connecticut is now the second U.S. state to legalize same-sex civil unions. (ABC)
2004 In Singapore, a Circle MRT Line tunnel being dug under the Nicoll Highway collapses, killing two. Two more are missing and feared dead. (Straits Times)
2003 A bench clearing brawl happens in a baseball game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the St. Louis Cardinals. Tino Martinez was hit by a 1–0 pitch from Miguel Batista, and took first base. He was then forced out at second base during the next batter's at-bat. When heading back to the dugout, Martinez charged Batista from behind. Batista turned and threw the ball at him, and players from both teams joined the altercation. The Diamondbacks ultimately won the game, 1–0, and the MLB suspends
2001 The anti-globalization movement holds a People's Summit and large protest marches, some of which are forcibly put down by police, against the FTAA summit in Quebec City, Quebec.
1999 Two Littleton, Colorado teenagers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, open fire on their Columbine High School teachers and classmates, killing 12 students and one teacher, and then themselves.
1998 German terrorist group the Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.
1997 Gin Game, opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 144 performances
1996 Chicago Bulls win record 72 games in a season.
1994 American Telephone & Telegraph changes its company name to AT&T Corporation.
1993 Uranus passes Neptune (this occurs once every 171 years).
1992 100th episode of Murphy Brown airs
1991 Les Miserables, opens at Odense Teater, Odense
1990 Pete Rose pleads guilty to hiding $300,000 in income.
1989 NATO debates modernising short range missiles although the U.S. and U.K. are in favour, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl obtains a concession deferring a decision.
1988 Yanks HR 9,999 (D Winfield) 10,000 (C Washington) 10,001 (J Clarke)
1987 US deports Karl Linnas, charged with German war crimes, to USSR.
1986 Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland
1985 Karyn Marshall of New York City, New York lifts 303 pounds in a clean-and-jerk lift.
1984 Russian offensive in Panshirvallei, Afghanistan.
1983 President Reagan signs a $165B bail out for Social Security
1982 Atlanta Braves become 1st team to win 1st 12 games of the season
1981 Final performance of TV show Soap airs
1980 Cubans begin to arrive in US from Mariel boatlift
1979 President Jimmy Carter is attacked by a swamp rabbit while fishing in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, USA.
1978 Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets in Russian airspace
1977 Supreme Court rules Live Free or Die may be covered on NH licenses
1976 George Harrison sings lumberjack song with Monty Python
1975 29th Tony Awards: Equus and The Wiz win.
1974 Paul McCartney releases Band on the Run
1973 Canadian ANIK A2 becomes first commercial satellite in orbit.
1972 Apollo 16 with John Young and Charles Duke lands on Moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2.
1971 US Supreme Court upholds use of bussing to achieve racial desegregation.
1970 74th Boston Marathon won by Ron Hill of Great Britain in 2:10:30 (new US marathon record).
1969 23rd Tony Awards: Great White Hope and 1776 win.
1968 South African Airways Boeing 707 crashes at Windhoek, 122 killed.
1967 US planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during Vietnam War
1966 WDCA TV channel 20 in Washington, DC (IND) begins broadcasting
1964 86 percent of black students boycott Cleveland, Ohio schools.
1963 Sophie closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 8 performances
1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 63,250 m
1961 American Harold Graham makes first rocket belt flight.
1960 From A to Z opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 21 performances
1959 63rd Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:22:42.
1958 Buses replace Key System trains at 3 AM
1957 61st Boston Marathon won by John J Kelley of Connecticut in 2:20:05.
1955 Saint of Bleecker St closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 92 performances
1954 Golden Apple opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 125 performances
1953 57th Boston Marathon won by Keizo Yamada of Japan in 2:18:51.
1951 Velsen city council demands investigation of police collaborators
1950 Baltimore's Memorial Stadium opens - Orioles of International League.
1949 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his first race, in Albany, California.
1948 New York City hikes subway fare from 5 cents to 10 cents
1947 Frederik IX becomes King of Denmark.
1946 1st baseball broadcast in Chicago, Cards vs. Cubs
1945 Soviet troops enter Berlin, Germany.
1944 NFL legalizes coaching from the bench.
1943 Braves manager Casey Stengel is struck by a taxi, fractures a leg
1942 German occupiers forbid Dutch access to their beach.
1941 Dodgers start to wear liners in their caps
1940 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1939 New York World's Fair opens.
1937 A fire in an elementary school in Kilingi-Nõmme, Estonia, kills seventeen students and injures fifty.
1936 40th Boston Marathon won by Ellison Brown of Rhode Island in 2:33:40.8.
1934 Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector of Prussian secret state police.
1933 US suspends convertibility of paper money to gold.
1931 British House of Commons agrees to allow sports play on Sunday.
1926 Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film.
1925 29th Boston Marathon won by Charles Mellor of Illinois in 2:33:00.6.
1922 The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
1920 7th modern Olympic games opens in Antwerp Belgium
1919 Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army.
1917 Pravda (Lenin names Russia "Free land of world").
1916 German-British sea battle off Belgian coast.
1914 18th Boston Marathon won by James Duffy of Canada in 2:25:01.2.
1912 Fenway Park officially opens, Boston Red Sox beat New York Highlanders 7-6 in 11.
1910 Cleveland Indians Addie Joss second no-hitter, beats Chicago, 1-0.
1908 12th Boston Marathon won by Tom Morrissey of New York in 2:25:43.2.
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in Saint Louis.
1903 7th Boston Marathon won by John Lorden of Massachusetts in 2:41:29.8.
1902 Marie and Pierre Curie isolate radioactive element radium.
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