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Events

• 1770 (256 years ago) The Georgian king, Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
• 1945 (81 years ago) World War II: Führerbunker: On his 56th birthday Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
• 1945 (81 years ago) World War II: U.S. troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
• 1946 (80 years ago) The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
• 1961 (65 years ago) Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
• 1968 (58 years ago) South African Airways Flight 228 crashes near J.G. Strijdom Airport in South West Africa (now Hosea Kutako International Airport in Namibia), killing 123 people.
• 2004 (22 years ago) The Nicoll Highway in Singapore collapses, killing four workers.
• 2015 (11 years ago) Ten people are killed in a bomb attack on a convoy carrying food supplies to a United Nations compound in Garowe in the Somali region of Puntland.

Births

• 1808 (218 years ago) Napoleon III, French politician, 1st President of France, Emperor of French Second Empire (died 1873)
• 1889 (137 years ago) Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born German politician, Führer of Nazi Germany (died 1945)
• 1893 (133 years ago) Joan Miró, Spanish painter and sculptor (died 1983)
• 1893 (133 years ago) Harold Lloyd, American actor, comedian, and producer (died 1971)
• 1937 (89 years ago) George Takei, American actor
• 1939 (87 years ago) Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian physician and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Norway–
• 1949 (77 years ago) Jessica Lange, American actress
• 1964 (62 years ago) Andy Serkis, English actor and director

Deaths

• 1314 (712 years ago) Pope Clement V,
• 1912 (114 years ago) Bram Stoker, Anglo-Irish novelist and critic, created Count Dracula (born 1847)
• 1918 (108 years ago) Karl Ferdinand Braun, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1850)
• 1932 (94 years ago) Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician and philosopher (born 1858)
• 1947 (79 years ago) Christian X, King of Denmark (born 1870)
• 2003 (23 years ago) Bernard Katz, German-English biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
• 2018 (8 years ago) Avicii, Swedish DJ and musician (born 1989)
• 2021 (5 years ago) Idriss Déby, Chadian politician and military officer (born 1952)

All 293 events, births and deaths of April 20