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Slideshow: Crazy Stuff That Has Happened on 4/20
Brace yourself. You might want to sit down for this, especially if you're stoned out of your mind, which you kind of seem like you are. (I can totally tell; everyone knows, actually.)
Today is basically the craziest day of all time.
Gulf oil spill
The Deepwater Horizon rig explodes. Eleven workers die. Oil spews into the gulf for months.
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Space center shooting
William A. Phillips, fearing a bad review and potential firing, uses a handgun to kill David Beverly at the Lyndon
Columbine massacre
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people at Columbine High School in Colorado. They also injure 24 people and kill themselves.
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Moon landing
Apollo 16 lands on the moon. Not the first time we've been there, but still really impressive.
Photo courtesy of NASA
Bay of Pigs
The U.S.-supported Bay of Pigs invasion fails to overthrow Fidel Castro's government in Cuba. Responding to the failure, red-faced President John F. Kennedy voice
The sound of movies
Vitaphone, a process by which sound is added to film, is announced by Western Electric and Warner Bros.
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
New stadium day
Baseball season opens at the brand new Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, and Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. Four years later, Chicago's Wrigley Field hosts its first game; f
Hitler's b-day
Birthday of Adolf Hitler. Fifty years later, Nazi Germany celebrates his birthday as a national holiday. In some bitter irony, it was on this date in 1657 that freedom of religion was granted to Jews living i
Pasteurize this!
Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard test pasteurization. Bernard laments the lopsided nomenclature.
Photos courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Old Ironsides
Oliver Cromwell, the Commonwealth-establishing English Civil War hero with a regicidal dictatorial streak, dismantles the "Rump Parliament" that he helped found after overthrowing and killing Charles I.<
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