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Day in History: April 20th - Columbine High School Massacre and more
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April 20 is the 110th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (111th in leap years). There are 255 days remaining.
| | 1534 - Jacques Cartier begins his voyage, in which he will discover Canada and Labrador. |
| | 1657 - Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City). |
| | 1792 - France declares war on Austria, the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars. |
| | 1861 - American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia. |
| | 1871 - Civil Rights Act of 1871 |
| | 1912 - Opening day for baseball stadiums Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, and Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. |
| | 1914 - Seventeen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a bitter Colorado coal-miner's strike. |
| | 1918 - Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims marking his final victories before his death the following day. |
| | 1926 - Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film. |
| | 1939 - Boston Red Sox Hall-of-Fame outfielder, Ted Williams, makes his Major League debut at Fenway Park; Boston, Massachusetts. |
| | 1999: Staff and students evacuate Columbine High School shortly after the shooting.1953 - Project BLUEBIRD turns into Project MKULTRA. |
| | 1961 - Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US troops against Cuba. |
| | 1968 - A South African Airways Boeing 707 crashes during takeoff at Windhoek, South-West Africa, killing 122. |
| | 1972 - Apollo 16 lands on the Moon. |
| | 1998 - TAME Boeing 727-200 chartered by Air France crashes into Cerro El Cable mountain after takeoff from Bogotá, Colombia, killing 53. |
| | 1999 - Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves in the Columbine High School massacre. |
| | 1999 - Largest bombing of Kosovo by the United States in the Kosovo War. |
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