Saturday April 20th is the 111th day of the Gregorian calendar. There are 252 days left until the end of the year.
Saint of the day: Saint Sara of Antochia
April Proverb
April and accounts are mostly traitors
It happened today
1926 – USA: Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce the creation of the Vitaphone, a process for adding sound to films
1940 – First public demonstration of an electron microscope
1964 – The first jar of Nutella is marketed
1967 – United States of America: a tornado devastates Chicago, causing 58 deaths
1972 – Apollo 16 lands on the surface of the Moon
1980 – Tizi Ouzou (Algeria): the police storm the university campus and begin the repression of the Berber Spring
1992 – Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium: the greatest singers on the world scene participate
1998 – An Air France Boeing 727-200 crashes into a mountain immediately after takeoff from Bogotá Airport, Colombia: 53 victims.
1999 – United States: the Columbine High School massacre takes place, where 15 people die in a shooting, including the two perpetrators of the massacre, and 24 others are injured.
2008 – Pope Benedict XVI visits Ground Zero in New York, the original site of the Twin Towers, destroyed on September 11, 2001.
2010 – Gulf of Mexico: explosion of the offshore tanker Deepwater Horizon, owned by British Petroleum.
2013 – Italy: Giorgio Napolitano is elected President of the Republic for the second consecutive time.
Birthdays
Andrea Adriatico – Italian director (20 April 1966)
Leonardo Manera – pseudonym of Leonardo Bonetti, Italian comedian and cabaret artist (20 April 1967)
Davide Mogavero – Italian singer (20 April 1993)
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