Events in History!

295 - 8th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1534 – Jacques Cartier begins the voyage during which he discovers Canada and Labrador.
1889 – Adolf Hitler, Dictator of Nazi Germany born (d. 1945)
1945 Hitler commits suicide after U.S. troops occupy Munich.
1948 – Craig Frost, American musician was born (Grand Funk & Bob Seger)
1967 – Mike Portnoy, American drummer (Dream Theater, Avenged Sevenfold)
1972 – Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands on the moon.
1974 - Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run"
1984 – The Good Friday Massacre, an extremely violent ice hockey playoff game, is played in Montreal, Canada
1993 - Uranus passes Neptune (once every 171 years)
1910 Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km
1912 "Bram Stoker died in London, England. Author of the Gothic horror novel Dracula in 1897"
1999 U.S.A. Columbine High School Shooting
20th April 1999 : Two students ( Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold ) wearing balaclavas go through Columbine High School in Denver, Colorado, firing automatic weapons and throwing homemade bombs killing 13 people and wounded 24 others before the two students committed suicide. They had originally planted two home made bombs in the cafeteria and were planning ok murdering the students as they ran from the building , when the bombs failed to go off they went into the school and began the massacre.
1999 """A bug's Life"" is the first DVD to be transfered directly from the digital source making it the first 100 percent digital DVD"
2010 - Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion kills 11 and causes rig to sink, initiating a massive oil discharge in the Gulf of Mexico.
April 20th, 2012 at 09:39pm