Here’s a look at what happened on this day in history, April 20th. We will always remember the news, events, and individuals who shaped the course of history.
ON THIS DAY: 20 APRIL
2015 | In Garowe, Somalia’s Puntland area, ten persons were killed in a bomb attack on a truck transporting food supplies to a UN complex.
More than 150 people were killed and many were injured after a 6.6-magnitude earthquake devastated Lushan County, Ya’an, in China’s Sichuan province in 2013.
A jet crashed in a residential neighborhood near the Benazir Bhutto International Airport near Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 127 people.
The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, killing eleven people and causing a six-month-long oil disaster.
2007 | Shooting at NASA’s Johnson Space Center: William Phillips locked himself inside NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, with a revolver before killing a NASA employee.
BIRTHDAYS
1961 | English actor, Nicholas Lyndhurst.
1967 | Dutch darts player, Raymond van Barneveld.
1964 | English actor and director, Andy Serkis.
1967 | American drummer and songwriter, Mike Portnoy.
1936 | American captain, journalist, and politician, Pat Roberts.
1971 | Dutch swimmer, physiologist, and academic, Carla Geurts.
ON THIS DAY: DEATHS
2016 | American wrestler, Chyna, 47.
1944 | American baseball player and pilot, Elmer Gedeon, 27.
1927 | Spanish painter and educator, Enrique Simonet, 61.
1942 | Estonian businessman and politician, 6th State Elder of Estonia, Jüri Jaakson, 72.
2002 | American singer, Alan Dale, 77.
SPORTS
On this day in 1955, John Charles scored a hat-trick for Wales, making them the first British international team to have two sets of brothers. With a 3-2 victory over Northern Ireland at Windsor Park in Belfast, John and Mel Charles, Ivor, and Len Allchurch were on their side.
ENTERTAINMENT
On this day the Cinema Release of “I Feel Pretty” was on Friday, April 20, 2018.
AFRICA FACT
The Igbo people of Nigeria have their own calendar with 13 months each year and four market days: Eke, Afor, Nkwo, and Orie.
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