Historical Events on 20th April 1505 - Jews are expelled from Orange Burgandy by Philibert of Luxembourg 1775 - British begin siege of Boston 1777 - New York adopts new constitution as an independent state 1792 - France declares war on Austria, Prussia & Sardinia 1799 - Napoleon issues a decree calling for establishing Jerusalem for Jews 1809 - Napoleon I defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria 1861 - Battle of Norfolk, VA - Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from Union army 1884 - Pope Leo XIII encyclical On Freemasonry 1888 - 246 reported killed by 8-inch hail in Moradabad, India 1914 - 33 killed by National Guard soldiers during mine strike in Ludlow, Colorado 1916 - German-British sea battle off Belgian coast 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. 1919 - Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army 1920 - Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate 1934 - Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector Prussian secret state police 1936 - Jews repel an Arab attack in Petach Tikvah Palestine 1941 - 100 German bombers attack Athens 1945 - Soviet troops enter Berlin - US 7th army captured German city of Nuremberg - US forces conquer Motobu peninsula on Okinawa 1951 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak 1965 - Peoples Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid 1967 - US Surveyor 3 lands on Moon - US planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during Vietnam War - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR - A Globe Air Bristol Britannia turboprop crashes at Nicosia, Cyprus, killing 126. 1968 - S Afr Boeing 707 crashes at Windhoek, 122 killed - English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech. 1983 - President Reagan signs a $165B bail out for Social Security 1984 - Russian offensive in Panshirvallei Afghanistan 1986 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1987 - Sri Lanka: Tamils shoot 122 Singalezen dead - US deports Karl Linnas to USSR, charged with Nazi war crimes 1988 - US accuses Renamo of killing 100,000 Mozambiquians 1993 - Uranus passes Neptune (once about 171 years) 1994 - Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed 1998 - German terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years. 1999 - Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School located in Jefferson County, Colorado. 2007 - Johnson Space Center Shooting: A man with a handgun barricades himself in NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself. 2010 - Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion kills 11 and causes rig to sink, initiating a massive oil discharge in the Gulf of Mexico. 2013 - 193 people are killed and 11,826 are injured after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes Lushan County, China
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