1987

Birth of Jorge Pinto

Jorge Pinto, Portuguese politician

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Jorge Pinto

1988

Birth of Brandon Belt

Brandon Belt, American baseball player

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Brandon Belt

1989

Birth of Vannesa Rosales

Vannesa Rosales, Venezuelan activist and teacher

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Vannesa Rosales

1990

Birth of Kyle Higashioka

Kyle Harris "Higgy" Higashioka is an American professional baseball catcher for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the New York Yankees and San Diego Padres. He also played for the United States national baseball team at the 2023 World Baseball Classic.

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Kyle Higashioka

1990

Birth of Jason Behrendorff

Jason Behrendorff, Australian cricketer

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Jason Behrendorff

1991

Birth of Luke Kuechly

Luke August Kuechly is an American former professional football linebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for eight seasons with the Carolina Panthers. Kuechly played college football for the Boston College Eagles, twice earning consensus All-American honors. He was selected by the Panthers ninth overall in the 2012 NFL draft.

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Luke Kuechly

1997

Birth of Alexander Zverev

Alexander "Sascha" Zverev is a German professional tennis player and the current world No. 3. He has been ranked as high as world No. 2 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved in June 2022. Zverev has won 25 ATP Tour–level titles in singles, including a major at the 2026 French Open, a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and the 2018 and the 2021 ATP Finals. He also has three titles in doubles.

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Alexander Zverev

1998

Air France Flight 422

Air France Flight 422 was a scheduled flight on 20 April 1998 by Air France from Bogotá, Colombia, to Quito, Ecuador, covering the final leg of a flight from Paris to Quito. The Boeing 727 was destroyed, killing all 53 people on board, when it crashed into the Eastern Hills of Bogotá because of foggy weather and low visibility after taking off from Bogotá's El Dorado International Airport. The plane was owned by TAME, the Ecuadorian airline, but was being operated on a wet-lease basis to Air France as the final leg of its flight from Paris.

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Air France Flight 422

1999

Columbine High School massacre

On April 20, 1999, high school senior students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered 13 students and one teacher in a school shooting and attempted bombing at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, United States. Twenty people were injured by the gunfire, and three others were injured while trying to escape. The attack ended when Harris and Klebold died by suicide.

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Columbine High School massacre

2004

Nicoll Highway

Nicoll Highway is a major arterial road in Singapore which links the junctions of Guillemard Road, Sims Way and Mountbatten Road in Kallang to the junctions of Esplanade Drive, Raffles Avenue and Stamford Road in the city. En route, it passes through the areas of Kallang, Kampong Glam and Marina Centre.

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Nicoll Highway

2005

Birth of Tallyn Da Silva

Tallyn Da Silva is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a hooker for the Parramatta Eels in the National Rugby League.

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Tallyn Da Silva

2007

Johnson Space Center shooting

The Johnson Space Center shooting was an incident of hostage taking that occurred on April 20, 2007, in Building 44, the Communication and Tracking Development Laboratory, at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, United States. The gunman, William Phillips, an employee for Jacobs Engineering who worked at Building 44, shot and killed one person and took a hostage for over three hours before committing suicide. Police said Phillips was under review for poor job performance and he feared being dismissed.

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Johnson Space Center shooting

2008

Danica Patrick

Danica Sue Patrick is an American former professional racing driver who competed in the IndyCar Series from 2005 to 2011 and the NASCAR Cup Series from 2012 to 2018. She is the most successful woman in the history of American open-wheel car racing—her victory in the 2008 Indy Japan 300 is the only win by a woman in IndyCar.

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Danica Patrick

2010

Deepwater Horizon

Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig owned by Transocean and operated by the BP company. On 20 April 2010, while drilling in the Gulf of Mexico at the Macondo Prospect, a blowout caused an explosion on the rig that killed 11 people and ignited a fireball visible from 40 miles (64 km) away. The fire was inextinguishable and, two days later, on 22 April, the Horizon collapsed, leaving the well gushing at the seabed and becoming the largest marine oil spill in history.

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Deepwater Horizon

2012

Bhoja Air Flight 213

Bhoja Air Flight 213 was a domestic scheduled passenger flight operated by Pakistani private airline Bhoja Air from Karachi to Islamabad. On 20 April 2012, the Boeing 737-236A aircraft serving the route crashed in bad weather during the final approach, killing all 121 passengers and 6 crew on board. It remains the second deadliest air disaster in Pakistan, after the 2010 crash of Airblue Flight 202.

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Bhoja Air Flight 213