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April 20th, 2008 (April 20 2008) | Event | Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race. | |
April 20th, 2008 (April 20 2008) | Death | VL Mike, American Rapper (born in 1976) | |
April 20th, 1998 (April 20 1998) | Event | TAME Boeing 727-200 chartered by Air France crashes into Cerro El Cable mountain after takeoff from Bogota, Colombia, killing 53. | |
April 20th, 1998 (April 20 1998) | Event | German terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years. | |
April 20th, 1978 (April 20 1978) | Event | Korean Air Flight 902 shot down by Soviets. | |
April 20th, 1978 (April 20 1978) | Birth | Mirei Kuroda, Japanese gravure idol | |
April 20th, 1968 (April 20 1968) | Event | A South African Airways Boeing 707 crashes during takeoff at Windhoek, South-West Africa, killing 122. | |
April 20th, 1968 (April 20 1968) | Event | English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech. | |
April 20th, 1968 (April 20 1968) | Birth | J. D. Roth, American game show host and television personality | |
April 20th, 1958 (April 20 1958) | Birth | Viacheslav Fetisov, Russian ice hockey player | |
April 20th, 1948 (April 20 1948) | Birth | Craig Frost, American musician (Grand Funk & Bob Seger) | |
April 20th, 1948 (April 20 1948) | Birth | Gregory Itzin, American actor | Gregory I Quotes |
April 20th, 1948 (April 20 1948) | Birth | Remy Trudel, French Canadian politician | |
April 20th, 1928 (April 20 1928) | Birth | Johnny Gavin, Irish footballer (died in 2007) | |
April 20th, 1928 (April 20 1928) | Birth | Gerald S. Hawkins, English astronomer (died in 2003) | |
April 20th, 1918 (April 20 1918) | Event | Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims marking his final victories before his death the following day. | |
April 20th, 1918 (April 20 1918) | Birth | Edward L. Beach, Jr., American naval officer, author (died in 2002) | |
April 20th, 1918 (April 20 1918) | Birth | Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 2007) | |
April 20th, 1918 (April 20 1918) | Death | Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1850) | |
April 20th, 1908 (April 20 1908) | Event | Opening day of competition of the New South Wales Rugby League. | |
April 20th, 1908 (April 20 1908) | Birth | Lionel Hampton, American musician (died in 2002) | |
April 20th, 1828 (April 20 1828) | Event | Rene Caillie is first non-Muslim to enter Timbouctou. | |
April 20th, 1818 (April 20 1818) | Birth | Heinrich Gobel, German-born inventor (died in 1893) | |
April 20th, 1808 (April 20 1808) | Birth | Napoleon III, Emperor of the French (died in 1873) | |
April 20th, 1718 (April 20 1718) | Birth | David Brainerd, American missionary (died in 1747) | |
April 20th, 1668 (April 20 1668) | Birth | Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (died in 1739) | |
April 20th, 1558 (April 20 1558) | Death | Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (born in 1485) | |