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#1 Today in history - April 20
Today is Sunday, April 20, the 111th day of 2008. There are 255 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On April 20, 1999, the Columbine High School massacre took place in Littleton, Colo., as two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, shot and killed 12 classmates and one teacher before taking their own lives.
On this date:
In 1808, Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, was born in Paris.
In 1812, George Clinton, the fourth vice president of the United States, died in Washington at age 72, becoming the first vice president to die while in office.
In 1836, Congress voted to establish the Wisconsin Territory.
In 1889, Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria.
In 1945, during World War II, allied forces took control of the German cities of Nuremberg and Stuttgart.
In 1968, Pierre Elliott Trudeau was sworn in as prime minister of Canada.
In 1971, the Supreme Court, in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, unanimously upheld the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools.
In 1972, the manned lunar module from Apollo 16 landed on the moon.
In 1978, a Korean Air Lines Boeing 707 crash-landed in northwestern Russia after being fired on by a Soviet interceptor after entering Soviet airspace. Two passengers were killed.
In 1988, gunmen who had hijacked a Kuwait Airways jumbo jet were allowed safe passage out of Algeria under an agreement that freed the remaining 31 hostages and ended a 15-day siege in which two passengers were slain.
Ten years ago: In an unusual use of a racketeering law designed to fight the mob, a federal jury in Chicago ruled that anti-abortion protest organizers had used threats and violence to shut down clinics. (However, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in February 2003 that federal racketeering and extortion laws were wrongly used to try to stop blockades, harassment and violent protests outside clinics.) A Boeing 727 leased to Air France crashed in Bogota, Colombia, killing all 53 people aboard.
Five years ago: U.S. Army forces took control of Baghdad from the Marines in a changing of the guard that thinned the military presence in the capital. Celebrating Easter, the Rev. Emmanuel Delly, a longtime Iraqi bishop, pleaded for safeguards against the persecution of Christians in the new Iraq. A landslide in southern Kyrgyzstan killed 38 people.
One year ago: The family of Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho, who shot and killed 32 people and himself, told The Associated Press they felt "hopeless, helpless and lost," and "never could have envisioned that he was capable of so much violence." A disgruntled contractor, William Phillips, shot and killed engineer David Beverly at the Johnson Space Center in Houston before barricading himself with a hostage and then killing himself.
Today's Birthdays: Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is 88. Actress Nina Foch is 84. Actor Leslie Phillips is 84. Actor George Takei is 71. Singer Johnny Tillotson is 69. Actor Ryan O'Neal is 67. Bluegrass singer-musician Doyle Lawson (Quicksilver) is 64. Rock musician Craig Frost (Grand Funk; Bob Seger's Silver Bullet Band) is 60. Actor Gregory Itzin is 60. Actress Jessica Lange is 59. Actor Clint Howard is 49. Actor Crispin Glover is 44. Country singer Wade Hayes is 39. Actor Shemar Moore is 38. Rock musician Mikey Welsh is 37. Actress Carmen Electra is 36. Reggae singer Stephen Marley is 36. Rock musician Marty Crandall (The Shins) is 33. Actor Joey Lawrence is 32.
Thought for Today: "The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached." — Woodrow Wilson, American president (1856-1924).
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