Today is Saturday, April 20, the 110th day of 2013. There are 255 days left in the year.
1653 ― Cromwell routes English parliament to house
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")
1967 ― U.S. planes bomb Haiphong for first time during the Vietnam War
1977 ― Woody Allen's film “Annie Hall” premieres
1986 ― Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland
1993 ― Uranus passes Neptune (this occurs once every 171 years)
1996 ― Chicago Bulls win record 72 games in a season