WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2011

Today is Wednesday, April 20, the 110th day of 2011. There are 255 days left in the world.

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

1902 ― Marie & Pierre Curie isolate radioactive element radium

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

1917 ― Pravda (Lenin names Russia ``Free land of world")

1920 ― Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate

1965 ― People's Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid

1992 ― All star concert in memory of Freddie Mercury held at Wembley Stadium London

1999 ― Deadliest school shooting in U.S. history at Columbine High School, Littleton, Colo., 13 killed, 23 wounded