April 20: Ridván begins at sunset (Bahá'í Faith); 4/20 (cannabis culture)
Enoch Powell
- 1537 – The main settlement Bacatá was conquered by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada during the Spanish conquest of the Muisca, effectively ending the Muisca Confederation in the Colombian Eastern Andes.
- 1809 – War of the Fifth Coalition: Napoleon led a Franco-German force to victory over a reinforced Austrian corps in the Battle of Abensberg.
- 1939 – Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday was celebrated as a national holiday in Nazi Germany.
- 1968 – British Member of Parliament Enoch Powell (pictured) made his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech in opposition to immigration and anti-discrimination legislation, resulting in his removal from the Shadow Cabinet.
- 2010 – An explosion on Deepwater Horizon, an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, caused the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry.
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