Today in WW2 History, 20 Apr 1945: US Seventh Army captured Nürnberg, Germany. #ww2 #onthisday https://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=322

Today in WW2 History, 20 Apr 1945: Adolf Hitler decided not to withdraw to southern Germany. #ww2 #onthisday https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=95

Today in 1914, 111 years ago: In the United States, President Woodrow Wilson orders U.S. troops to occupy Veracruz, Mexico.

Today in 2015, 10 years ago: Ten people are killed in a bomb attack on a convoy carrying food supplies to a United Nations compound in Garowe in the Somali region of Puntland.

Today in 1990, 35 years ago: in Spain, the Venezuelan writer Arturo Uslar Pietri is awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters.

Today in WW2 History, 20 Apr 1944: [Photo] State funeral for Nikolai Vatutin, Kiev, Ukraine #ww2 #onthisday https://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=22275

Today in 2021, 4 years ago: State of Minnesota v. Derek Michael Chauvin: Derek Chauvin is found guilty of all charges in the murder of George Floyd by the Fourth Judicial District Court of Minnesota.

Today in 1902, 123 years ago: Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.

Today in 2010, 15 years ago: The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months.

Today in 1946, 79 years ago: The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.

Today in 1946, 79 years ago: Chinese Communists occupy Changshá.

Today in 2020, 5 years ago: For the first time in history, oil prices drop below zero, an effect of the 2020 Russia-Saudi Arabia oil price war.

Today in 1949, 76 years ago: Amethyst incident: The People's Liberation Army attacks HMS Amethyst (F116) travelling to the British embassy in Nanjing during the Chinese Civil War.

#OnThisDay, April 20, 1902, Marie and Pierre Curie successfully isolated radioactive radium salts from the mineral pitchblende in their laboratory in Paris (depicted in Radioactive, 2019)

Today in 1884, 141 years ago: Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus, condemning Freemasonry.

Today in 1988, 37 years ago: in Belgium, Jean-Luc Dehaene gives the post to Wilfried Martens at the head of the Government, after 128 days without effective Government in the nation.

Today in 1897, 128 years ago: in Barcelona (Spain) the Decree of Aggregation comes into force, according to which the municipalities of Gracia, San Martín de Provensals, San Andrés de Palomar, San Gervasio de Cassolas, Sants and Les Corts are integrated into the city.

Today in 1822, 203 years ago: in the Royal Presidium of San Diego (California), the Spanish flag is lowered and the square is handed over to the First Mexican Empire, thus ending 309 years of Spanish presence in the current United States.

Today in 1770, 255 years ago: The Georgian king, Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.

Today in 2024, 1 year ago: The use of the magnetic ticket of the Mexico City Metro is abolished, after 55 years of history, commemorative editions and offering trips to different points of the Federal District (today Mexico City).