12 years.
Olen usein miettinyt miksi pojat valitsivat juuri tämän päivän. Yleisin oletus on kai tuo täälläkin mainittu Hitlerin syntymäpäivä, samoin kuin päivän valinnan satunnaisuus. Laitan kuitenkin tänne listan jonka löysin. Asioita, joita on tapahtunut 20.04. (Pahoittelut pitkästä englanninkielisestä lainauksesta)
Those
born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include founder of Islam the Prophet Muhammad in 571; Roman Catholic St. Rose of Lima in 1586; French Emperor Napoleon III in 1808; sculptor Daniel Chester French, creator of «The Minute Man» statue, in 1850; German dictator Adolf Hitler in 1889; silent film comedian Harold Lloyd and Spanish surrealist painter Joan Miro, both in 1893; musician Lionel Hampton in 1908; U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens in 1920 (age 91); actors Nina Foch in 1924, George Takei in 1937 (age 74); Ryan O'Neal in 1941 (age 70) and Jessica Lange and Veronica Cartwright, both in 1949 (age 62); singer Luther Vandross in 1951; football coach Steve Spurrier, who won the 1966 Heisman Trophy as a player, in 1945 (age 66); and actors Crispin Glover and Andy Serkis, both in 1964 (age 47), Carmen Electra in 1972 (age 39) and Joey Lawrence in 1976 (age 35).
On this date in history:
In 1653, Oliver Cromwell -- Puritan, revolutionary and Lord Protector of England -- dissolved Parliament to rule by decree.
In 1871, the U.S. Congress passed the Third Force Act, popularly known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, authorizing President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial law, impose heavy penalties against terrorist organizations and use military force to suppress the Klan.
In 1902, Marie and Pierre Curie isolated radioactive radium salts from the mineral pitchblende in their laboratory in Paris.
In 1912, first baseball games were played at Boston's Fenway Park and Detroit's Tiger Stadium.
In 1916, first baseball game played at Chicago's Weehhman Park, later renamed Wrigley Field.
In 1939, Billie Holiday recorded «Strange Fruit.»
In 1976, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal courts could order low-cost housing for minorities in a city's white suburbs to ease racial segregation.
In 1987, Karl Linnas, sentenced to death by the Soviets in 1962 for running a World War II concentration camp, became the first Nazi war criminal returned by the United States to the Soviet Union against his will.
In 1990, Pete Rose, banished from baseball for gambling, pleaded guilty to two felony counts alleging he concealed nearly $300,000 in income from the Internal Revenue Service.
In 1991, U.S. Marines crossed into northern Iraq to set up camps for Kurds seeking refuge from Iraqi civil strife.
Also in 1991, the United States announced plans to open an office in Hanoi to investigate unresolved cases of 2,278 U.S. military personnel listed as MIAs and POWs.
In 1992, Madonna signed a multimillion-dollar deal with Time Warner to form an entertainment company that would make her the world's highest paid female pop star.
In 1998, a federal jury in Chicago awarded more than $85,000 in damages to two women's health clinics that had accused abortion opponents of threats and extortion in an effort to shut them down.
In 1999, two teenage boys killed 12 fellow students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., before turning their guns on themselves.
Nämä poikien kuoleman jälkeiset tapahtumat eivät tietenkään heidän päätökseensä ole vaikuttaneet, mutta laitanpa nyt nämäkin tänne. Ihan mielenkiinnosta.
In 2001, a U.S. missionary and her infant daughter died when their plane was fired on by the crew of a Peruvian jetfighter who thought the aircraft was carrying illegal drugs.
In 2002, Pope John Paul II, speaking on the sex scandal that had rocked the Roman Catholic clergy, said bishops must «diligently investigate accusations» against priests who broke their vows of celibacy.
In 2004, 21 Iraqi detainees were killed at Abu Ghraib prison, largest facility used by U.S. troops to detain Iraqis, by mortar rounds apparently fired by anti-coalition insurgents.
In 2005, more than 50 bodies, believed to be those of hostages, were found in Iraq's Tigris River and another 20 soldiers shot to death were found near Baghdad.
In 2008, more than 1,000 Zimbabweans were reported fleeing for South Africa daily to escape violence by loyalists to President Robert Mugabe.
Also in 2008, former Roman Catholic Bishop Fernando Lugo was elected president of Paraguay with 41 percent of the vote.
And, in 2008 sports, Danica Patrick won the Indy Japan 300 auto race, becoming the first woman to win an IndyCar event.
In 2009, federal records said U.S. interrogators used the controversial procedure waterboarding 183 times against Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-admitted planner of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. The Obama administration has termed the practice illegal torture.
In 2010, an explosion and fire on a BP oil rig off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers and unleashed a massive oil spill sending thousands of barrels of crude oil a day gushing off shore and later on beaches from Texas to Florida until finally stopped on June 15. Officials termed it the largest U.S. marine oil spill ever, stretching out over almost three months and releasing about 4.9 million barrels or nearly 206 million gallons of crude.
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