April 20

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1534 - Jacques Cartier begins his voyage, in which he will discover Canada and Labrador.
1918 - Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims marking his final victories before his death the following day.
1945 - Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface from the Führerbunker to award Iron Crosses to the young soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
1962 - The National Socialist Movement is formed in Britian
1968 - English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech.
1985 - ATF raid on The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in northern Arkansas.
1989 - Centennial of the birth of Adolf Hitler
1998 - German leftist terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.

1808 - Napoleon III, Emperor of the French (d. 1873)
1889 - Adolf Hitler, leader of National Socialist Germany from 1933 until his death (d. 1945)
1896 - Wop May, Canadian aviator (d. 1952)