Following are some of the major events to have occurred on April 20:
1912 – Bram Stoker, Dublin-born author of “Dracula”, died.
1943 – The massacre of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising began in World War Two.
1947 – King Christian X of Denmark died.
1998 – Germany’s Red Army Faction, a guerrilla group responsible for bombings and assassinations in the 1970s and 1980s, said it had disbanded.
1999 – Two teenagers went on a rampage at Columbine High School in a suburb of Denver, Colorado, shooting 13 dead before taking their own lives.
2000 – China’s Communist Party expelled senior lawmaker Cheng Kejie, accusing him of taking bribes.
2004 – Stuntman Eric Scott sets world record for highest human flight with a rocket belt.
2005 – Ecuador’s parliament fired President Lucio Gutierrez after thousands of demonstrators called for the former army colonel to quit for meddling with the country’s top court.
2007 – World’s first series of glass string instruments is demonstrated in Hong Kong.
2010 – Explosion on Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit Deepwater Horizon in Gulf of Mexico.
2015 – Bomb attack targets United Nations compound in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland.
(Reuters)
