• Today is Easter Sunday, April 20, the 110th day of 2014. There are 255 days left in the year.
• Today's Highlight in History:
• On April 20, 1914, the Ludlow Massacre took place when the Colorado National Guard opened fire on a tent colony of striking miners; about 20 (accounts vary) strikers, women and children died in the gunfire or were smothered by smoke from the burning tents.
• On this date:
• In 1314, Pope Clement V, the first of the Avignonese popes, died at Roquemaure, France.
• In 1792, France declared war on Austria, marking the start of the French Revolutionary Wars.
• In 1861, Col. Robert E. Lee resigned his commission in the United States Army. (Lee went on to command the Army of Northern Virginia, and eventually became general-in-chief of the Confederate forces.)
• In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed a proclamation admitting West Virginia to the Union, effective in 60 days (on June 20, 1863).
• In 1889, Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria.
• In 1912, Boston's Fenway Park hosted its first professional baseball game while Navin Field (Tiger Stadium) opened in Detroit. (The Red Sox defeated the New York Highlanders 7-6 in 11 innings; the Tigers beat the Cleveland Naps 6-5 in 11 innings.)
• In 1945, during World War II, allied forces took control of the German cities of Nuremberg and Stuttgart.
• In 1968, Pierre Elliott Trudeau was sworn in as prime minister of Canada.
• In 1972, the manned lunar module from Apollo 16 landed on the moon.
• In 1988, gunmen who'd hijacked a Kuwait Airways jumbo jet were allowed safe passage out of Algeria under an agreement that freed the remaining 31 hostages and ended a 15-day siege in which two passengers were slain.
• In 1999, the Columbine High School massacre took place in Colorado as two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, shot and killed 12 classmates and one teacher before taking their own lives.

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