The 20t o Aprile is the 110t day o the year (111t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 255 days ti come.
Events
1972 : John W. Young on the Muin 2010 : Deepwater Horizon ile rig on fire 1534 - Jacques Cartier sets sail tae Canadae frae Fraunce .1689 - James VII, Keeng o Scots lays siege tae Derry , present-day Northren Ireland .1887 - The first car race takes place, frae Paris tae Versailles .1902 - Marie an Pierre Curie refine radium .1920 - The 1920 Simmer Olympics in Antwerp , Belgium , stairt.1934 - The Scots Naitional Pairty is offeecially formed.1945 - Warld War II : Unitit States troops captur Leipzig .1947 - Frederick IX o Denmark becomes King.1964 - BBC Two launches.1968 - Pierre Trudeau becomes Prime meenister o Canadae for the first time.1968 - Breetish politeecian Enoch Powell haulds his "Rivers o Blood" speech.1972 - Apollo 16 launds on the Muin .1999 - The Columbine High School massacre is committit in Littleton, Colorado .2005 - Alfredo Palacio becomes Preses o Ecuador .2010 - The Deepwater Horizon ile rig splodes aff Louisiana , killin 11 fowk an causin a massive spill.2012 - A plane crash near Islamabad , Pakistan , kills 127 fowk.2013 - A yirdquauk in Sichuan , Fowkrepublic o Cheenae , kills at least 160 fowk.2013 - Giorgio Napolitano is electit tae a seicont term as Preses o Italy .
Births
Young Tom Morris Miranda Kerr 1586 - Saunt Rose o Lima , Peruvian saunt (d. 1617 )1808 - Napoleon III o Fraunce (d. 1873 )1809 - James David Forbes , Scots pheesicist an glaciologist (d. 1868 )1839 - Carol I o Romanie (d. 1914 )1851 - Young Tom Morris , Scots gowfer (d. 1875 )1889 - Adolf Hitler , Nazi leader (d. 1945 )1893 - Joan Miro , Catalan penter (d. 1983 )1896 - Sheina Marshall , Scots marine biologist (d. 1977 )1918 - Kai Siegbahn , Swadish pheesicist (d. 2007 )1936 - Pauli Ellefsen , Prime meenister o the Faroe Islands (d. 2012 )1936 - Alex Harley , Scots fitbawer (d. 1969 )1937 - George Takei , American actor1939 - Gro Harlem Brundtland , Norse politeecian1942 - Arto Paasilinna , Finnish writer (d. 2018 )1942 - Jimmy Wilson , Scots fitbawer1943 - Alan Beith , Inglish politeecian 1945 - Thein Sein , umwhile Preses o Myanmar 1949 - Jessica Lange , American actress1952 - Eric Pickles , Inglish politeecian1960 - Miguel Diaz-Canel , Preses o Cuba 1962 - Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson , umwhile Prime meenister o Iceland 1964 - Andy Serkis , Inglish actor1972 - Carmen Electra , American actress, sangster an model1976 - Shay Given , Erse fitbawer1981 - Mike Blair , Scots rugby union player an coach1983 - Miranda Kerr , Australie model1992 - Guy Learmonth , Scots athlete1997 - Alexander Zverev Jr. , German tennis player
Daiths
1314 - Pape Clement V (b. 1264 )1713 - John Hay, 2nt Marquess o Tweeddale , Scots nobleman (b. 1645 )1720 - George Gordon, 1st Yerl o Aiberdeen Laird Chancellor o Scotland (b. 1637 )1812 - George Clinton , Vice Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1839 )1819 - Charles Montagu-Scott, 4t Duke o Buccleuch , Scots laundawner, cricketer an politeecian (b. 1772 )1912 - Bram Stoker , Erse writer (b. 1847 )1918 - Karl Ferdinand Braun , German pheesicist (b. 1850 )1935 - John Cameron , Scots fitbawer (b. 1872 )1936 - William Brown Macdougall , Scots airtist (b. 1868 )1947 - Christian X o Denmark (b. 1870 )1992 - Benny Hill , Inglis comedian (b. 1924 )1993 - Cantinflas , Mexican comedian an actor (b. 1911 )2011 - Allan Brown , Scots fitbawer (b. 1926 )2013 - Struther Arnott , Scots molecular biologist an chemist (b. 1934 )2016 - Victoria Wood , Inglis actress, comedienne an writer (b. 1953 )2018 - Avicii , Swadish DJ an muisic producer (b. 1989 )
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