- 1770 20 Apr British navigator and explorer Captain James Cook becomes the first European to discover Australia.
- 1945 20 Apr As Adolf Hitler celebrates his 56th birthday, the first Soviet artillery shells fall on Berlin.
- 1968 20 Apr British politican Enoch Powell makes his notorious 'rivers of blood' speech against immigration.
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