MONDAY, APRIL 20, 2009

Today is Monday, April 20, the 110th day of 2009. There are 255 days left in the year.

1653 _ Cromwell routes English parliament to house

1770 _ Captain Cook arrives in New South Wales

1841 _ First detective story (Poe's ``Murders in the Rue Morgue") published

1884 _ Pope Leo XIII encyclical ``On Freemasonry"

1904 _ George Bernard Shaw's ``Candida," premieres in London

1920 _ Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate

1945 _ Soviet troops enter Berlin

1945 _ U.S. forces conquer Motobu peninsula on Okinawa

1996 _ Chicago Bulls win record 72 games in a season

1999 _ Deadliest school shooting in U.S. history at Columbine High School, Littleton, Col., 13 killed & 23 wounded