April 20
People born on this day are Taurus.
- 1972
Apollo program: The Apollo 16 Lunar Module Orion, commanded by John Young and piloted by Charles Duke, lands on the Moon.
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University of California, Riverside 1985 laboratory raid: Animal Liberation Front rescues 467 animals being tested in a lab at University of California, Riverside in Riverside, California, causing $700,000 in damages to the laboratory, in advocacy for animal rights.
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Air France Flight 422 crashes after taking off from El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia, killing all 53 people on board.
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Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 14 people and injure 23 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.
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The Nicoll Highway in Singapore collapses, killing four workers.
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Johnson Space Center shooting: William Phillips barricades himself with a handgun in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, before killing a male hostage and himself.
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Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300, becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
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The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that lasted six months.
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One hundred twenty-seven people are killed when a plane crashes in a residential area near the Benazir Bhutto International Airport near Islamabad, Pakistan.
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Ten people are killed in a bomb attack on a convoy carrying food supplies to a United Nations compound in Garowe in the Somali region of Puntland.
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For the first time in history, oil prices drop below zero, an effect of the 2020 Russia-Saudi Arabia oil price war.
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SpaceX's Starship rocket, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, launches for the first time. It explodes four minutes into flight.
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2005Tallyn Da Silva, Australian rugby league player
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1997Alexander Zverev, German tennis player
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1991Luke Kuechly, American football player
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1990Kyle Higashioka, American baseball player
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1990Jason Behrendorff, Australian cricketer
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1988Brandon Belt, American baseball player
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1987Jorge Pinto, Portuguese politician
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1984Harris Wittels, American comedian (died 2015)
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1983Miranda Kerr, Australian model
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1978Carl Greenidge, English cricketer
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1975Killer Mike, American rapper
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1974Randy Fine, American politician and former gambling industry executive
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