1902<\/strong> – Scientists Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the radioactive element radium.<\/p>\n 1912<\/strong> – Fenway Park opened as the home of the Boston Red Sox.<\/p>\n 1916<\/strong> – Sir Roger Casement landed in Ireland to incite rebellion against the British. Casement, a British diplomat, was captured within hours and was hanged for high treason on August 3.<\/p>\n 1916<\/strong> – Chicago’s Wrigley Field held its first Cubs game with the first National League game at the ballpark. The Cubs beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-6 in 11 innings.<\/p>\n 1919<\/strong> – The Polish Army captured Vilno, Lithuania from the Soviets.<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong> – The First electron microscope was demonstrated by RCA.<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong> – Pierre Laval, the premier of Vichy France, in a radio broadcast, establishes a policy of “true reconciliation with Germany.”<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – Soviet troops began their attack on Berlin.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – During World War II, Allied forces took control of the German cities of Nuremberg and Stuttgart.<\/p>\n 1953<\/strong> – Operation Little Switch began in Korea. It was the exchange of sick and wounded prisoners of war. Thirty Americans were freed.<\/p>\n 1953<\/strong> – The Boston marathon was won by Keizo Yamada with a record time of 2:18:51.<\/p>\n 1959<\/strong> – “Desilu Playhouse” on CBS-TV presented a two-part show titled “The Untouchables.”<\/p>\n 1960<\/strong> – Brasilia became the capital of Brazil.<\/p>\n 1961<\/strong> – The French army revolted in Algeria.<\/p>\n 1967<\/strong> – Svetlana Alliluyeva (Svetlana Stalina) defected in New York City. She was the daughter of Joseph Stalin.<\/p>\n 1967<\/strong> – In Athens, Army colonels took over the government and installed Constantine Kollias as premier.<\/p>\n 1972<\/strong> –\u00a0Apollo 16<\/i>\u00a0astronauts John Young and Charles Duke explored the surface of the moon.<\/p>\n 1975<\/strong> – South Vietnam president, Nguyen Van Thieu, resigned, condemning the United States.<\/p>\n 1977<\/strong> – “Annie” opened on Broadway.<\/p>\n 1984<\/strong> – In France, it was announced that doctors had found the virus believed to cause AIDS.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – Manuel Ortega proposed a cease-fire for Nicaragua.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – Geraldo Rivera opened a vault that belonged to Al Capone at the Lexington Hotel in Chicago. Nothing of interest was found inside.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – Special occasion stamps were offered for the first time by the U.S. Postal Service. “Happy Birthday” and “Get Well” were among the first to be offered.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – The Game Boy handheld video game device was released in Japan.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – Robert Alton Harris became the first person executed by the state of California in 25 years. He was put to death for the 1978 murder of two teenage boys.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – Jackie Parker became the first woman to qualify to fly an F-16 combat plane.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Astronomers announced in Washington that they had discovered possible signs of a new family of planets orbiting a star 220 light-years away.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong> – In Sinking Spring, PA, a man chased his estranged girlfriend through town and then forced her car into the path of an oncoming train. The woman and her 3 passengers were killed.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong> – North Carolina researchers announced that the heart of a 66 million-year-old dinosaur was more like a mammal or bird than that of a reptile.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong> – The 1998 Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act went into effect.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – In the city of General Santos, 14 people were killed and 69 were injured in a bomb attack on a department store. The attack was blamed on Muslim extremists.<\/p>\n 2003<\/strong> – North and South Korea agreed to hold Cabinet-level talks the following week.<\/p>\n 2009<\/strong> – UNESCO launched The World Digital Library. The World Digital Library (WDL) is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress.<\/p>\n 2010<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The controversial\u00a0Kharkiv Pact\u00a0(Russian Ukrainian Naval Base for Gas Treaty) is signed in\u00a0Kharkiv, Ukraine, by\u00a0Ukrainian President\u00a0Viktor Yanukovych\u00a0and\u00a0Russian President\u00a0Dmitry Medvedev; it was unilaterally terminated by Russia on March 31, 2014.<\/p>\n 2012<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Two trains are involved in a\u00a0head-on collision\u00a0near\u00a0Sloterdijk, Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, injuring 116 people.<\/p>\n 2012<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0United Nations Security Council Resolution 2043\u00a0relating to\u00a0Syrian uprising\u00a0is adopted.<\/p>\n 2014<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The American city of\u00a0Flint, Michigan\u00a0switches its water source to the\u00a0Flint River, beginning the ongoing\u00a0Flint water crisis\u00a0which has caused\u00a0lead poisoning\u00a0in up to 12,000 people, and 15 deaths from\u00a0Legionnaires disease, ultimately leading to criminal indictments against 15 people, five of whom have been charged with\u00a0involuntary manslaughter.<\/p>\n 2015<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Ten people are killed in a\u00a0bomb attack\u00a0on a convoy carrying food supplies to a\u00a0United Nations\u00a0compound in\u00a0Garowe\u00a0in the Somali region of\u00a0Puntland.<\/p>\n 2016<\/strong> – The U.S. Treasury Department announced a plan for Harriet Tubman to replace Andrew Jackson as the portrait on the $20 bill.<\/p>\n History of 20 April 1902 – Scientists Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the radioactive element radium. 1912 – Fenway Park opened as the home of the Boston Red Sox. 1916 – Sir Roger Casement landed in Ireland to incite rebellion against the British. 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