Wednesday, 20 April 2011

On This Day - 20th April


1889 - Adolf Hitler born
1893 - Joan MirĂ³ and Harold Lloyd born
1908 - Lionel Hampton born
1924 - Nina Foch born
1940 - George Takei born
1941 - Ryan O'Neal born
1949 - Jessica Lange born
1953 - The US and Korea swap sick and wounded prisoners of war at Panmunjon.
1959 - Clint Howard born
1961 - Don Mattingly born
1968 - The Conservative right-winger Enoch Powell makes a hard-hitting speech attacking the government's immigration policy.

1972 - The Apollo 16 mission has landed on the Moon after a seven-hour crisis that nearly aborted the mission altogether. Also Carmen Electra born
1974 - The conflict in Northern Ireland claims its 1,000th victim, James Murphy a petrol station owner from County Fermanagh.

1976 - Joey Lawrence born
1999 - Two students, wearing balaclavas and trench coats, rampage through Columbine High School in Denver, Colorado, firing automatic weapons and throwing homemade bombs, leaving 15 dead.

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