April 20<\/p>\n
1775 \u2013 Following the battles at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts militias block land access to Boston, limiting British resupply and reinforcements to only come from the sea.<\/p>\n
1789 \u2013 George Washington arrives at Grays Ferry, Philadelphia, while en route to Manhattan for his inauguration.<\/p>\n
1836 \u2013 Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory.<\/p>\n
1861 \u2013 Colonel Robert E. Lee, commander of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Regiment,\u00a0 resigns his commission in the United States Army to avoid, as he saw it, the dishonor of disobeying official orders to engage his troops against Virginia.<\/p>\n
1898 \u2013 President McKinley signs a joint resolution to Congress for a declaration of war against Spain.<\/p>\n
1914 \u2013 19 men, women, and children participating in a strike are killed in the Ludlow Massacre during the Colorado Coalfield War.<\/p>\n
1945 \u2013 On his 56th birthday, Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface from the F\u00fchrerbunker\u00a0 in Berlin, to award Iron Crosses to soldiers of the Hitler Youth.<\/p>\n
1961 \u2013 The invasion of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba by U.S. backed Cuban exiles fails.<\/p>\n
1972 \u2013 The lunar module Orion<\/em>, of Apollo 16, commanded by John Young and copiloted by Charles Duke, lands on the moon in the Descartes Highlands.<\/p>\n 1998 \u2013 Air France Flight 422, a Boeing 727, crashes after taking off from El Dorado International Airport in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, killing all 53 people on board.<\/p>\n 1999 \u2013 Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shoot and kill 13 people and wound 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.<\/p>\n 2007 \u2013 William Phillips barricades himself in NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, shooting and killing a hostage before committing suicide.<\/p>\n 2008 \u2013 Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.<\/p>\n 2010 \u2013 The Deepwater Horizon<\/em> drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months.<\/p>\n 2021 \u2013 Derek Chauvin is found guilty of all charges in the murder of George Floyd by the Fourth Judicial District Court of Minnesota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 20 1775 \u2013 Following the battles at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts militias block land access to Boston, limiting British resupply and reinforcements to only come from the sea. 1789 \u2013 George Washington arrives at Grays Ferry, Philadelphia, while en route to Manhattan for his inauguration. 1836 \u2013 Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67017"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91986,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67017\/revisions\/91986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}