Today in History: April 20, the Columbine High School shootings

In the modern day is Sunday April the th day of There are days left in the year Nowadays is Easter Currently in history On April two students shot and killed classmates and one guide and injured others before taking their own lives at Columbine High School near Denver Colorado Also on this date In the fourth vice president of the United States George Clinton died in Washington at age becoming the first vice president to die while in office Related Articles American Revolution th celebrations begin in Lexington Concord Photos Homeland Protection ICE Boston agent at center of New Bedford arrest not a militia leader Deportation fears add to mental physical condition problems confronting resort town workers In current times in History April federal building bombed in Oklahoma City Supreme Court blocks for now deportations of Venezuelans held in northern Texas under an th century wartime law In Boston s Fenway Park now the oldest working stadium in Major League Baseball hosted its first official baseball battle in front of an estimated spectators The Red Sox defeated the New York Highlanders - in innings In militia and Colorado National Guard members opened fire on an encampment of striking coal miners and their families in Ludlow Colorado at least people in the camp including children and one National Guard member were killed in the Ludlow Massacre In the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools In Apollo s lunar module carrying astronauts John W Young and Charles M Duke Jr landed on the moon In following an absence of over six decades Russian-born pianist Vladimir Horowitz returned to the Soviet Union to perform a concert at the Grand Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow In an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform leased by BP killed workers and caused a blowout that began spewing an estimated million gallons million liters of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico The well was eventually capped nearly three months later In former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was detected guilty of murder and manslaughter charges for the killing of George Floyd Chauvin was later sentenced to years in prison In the current era s Birthdays Actor George Takei is Actor Jessica Lange is Actor Clint Howard is Former MLB first baseman Don Mattingly is Actor Crispin Glover is Actor Andy Serkis is Actor Shemar Moore is Actor-model Carmen Electra is Reggae musician Stephen Marley is Rapper Killer Mike is Actor Joey Lawrence is Model Miranda Kerr is Former NFL linebacker Luke Kuechly is