On This Day - April 20th 1653 - Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.
On This Day - April 20th 1689 – The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry.
On This Day - April 20th 1862 – Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the first pasteurization tests.
On This Day - April 20th 1914 – Forty-five men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miner's strike.
On This Day - April 20th 1939 – Billie Holiday records the first Civil Rights song "Strange Fruit".
On This Day - April 20th 1968 – British politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech.
On This Day - April 20th 1972 – Apollo 16 lands on the Moon.
On This Day - April 20th 1999 – Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado.
On This Day - April 20th 2008 – Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
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