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April 20th, 2008 (April 20 2008)EventDanica 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)DeathVL Mike, American Rapper (born in 1976)
April 20th, 1998 (April 20 1998)EventTAME 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)EventGerman terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.
April 20th, 1978 (April 20 1978)EventKorean Air Flight 902 shot down by Soviets.
April 20th, 1978 (April 20 1978)BirthMirei Kuroda, Japanese gravure idol
April 20th, 1968 (April 20 1968)EventA South African Airways Boeing 707 crashes during takeoff at Windhoek, South-West Africa, killing 122.
April 20th, 1968 (April 20 1968)EventEnglish politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech.
April 20th, 1968 (April 20 1968)BirthJ. D. Roth, American game show host and television personality
April 20th, 1958 (April 20 1958)BirthViacheslav Fetisov, Russian ice hockey player
April 20th, 1948 (April 20 1948)BirthCraig Frost, American musician (Grand Funk & Bob Seger)
April 20th, 1948 (April 20 1948)BirthGregory Itzin, American actor Gregory I Quotes
April 20th, 1948 (April 20 1948)BirthRemy Trudel, French Canadian politician
April 20th, 1928 (April 20 1928)BirthJohnny Gavin, Irish footballer (died in 2007)
April 20th, 1928 (April 20 1928)BirthGerald S. Hawkins, English astronomer (died in 2003)
April 20th, 1918 (April 20 1918)EventManfred 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)BirthEdward L. Beach, Jr., American naval officer, author (died in 2002)
April 20th, 1918 (April 20 1918)BirthKai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 2007)
April 20th, 1918 (April 20 1918)DeathKarl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1850)
April 20th, 1908 (April 20 1908)EventOpening day of competition of the New South Wales Rugby League.
April 20th, 1908 (April 20 1908)BirthLionel Hampton, American musician (died in 2002)
April 20th, 1828 (April 20 1828)EventRene Caillie is first non-Muslim to enter Timbouctou.
April 20th, 1818 (April 20 1818)BirthHeinrich Gobel, German-born inventor (died in 1893)
April 20th, 1808 (April 20 1808)BirthNapoleon III, Emperor of the French (died in 1873)
April 20th, 1718 (April 20 1718)BirthDavid Brainerd, American missionary (died in 1747)
April 20th, 1668 (April 20 1668)BirthYuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (died in 1739)
April 20th, 1558 (April 20 1558)DeathJohannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (born in 1485)

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