Today is Sunday, April 20, the 111th day of 2008. There are 255 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Sunday, April 20, the 111th day of 2008. There are 255 days left in the year. On this date in 1999, the Columbine High School massacre takes place in Littleton, Colo., as two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, shoot and kill 12 classmates and one teacher before taking their own lives.

In 1945, during World War II, allied forces take control of the German cities of Nuremberg and Stuttgart. In 1971, the Supreme Court, in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, unanimously upholds the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools. In 1972, the manned lunar module from Apollo 16 lands on the moon.

April 20, 1983: Mahoning County commissioners name Vincent E. Gooden, 38, the new director of the county’s Welfare Department, replacing Ezell L. Armour, who retired.

President Reagan ends two years of bitter partisan conflict over Social Security, signing a $165 billion rescue plan that raises the retirement age, forces workers to pay more and retirees to take less.

April 20, 1968: A thug strikes Sam Gilber, 61, on the head with a pop bottle so hard it knocks several fillings from his teeth and flees with $800 from the Gilber Leather Co. at 265 E. Federal St.

The old Mahoning County Home on Herbert Road in Canfield has been burning for two days and Canfield Fire Chief Kelley Oakley says he intends to let the fire burn itself out.

April 20, 1958: A week after The Vindicator reported that a bookie joint was doing a brisk business in Girard, blocks from the police station, the Girard Sporting Club continues to operate almost 24 hours a day. The opening of baseball season boosted activity.

A gift of 156 acres and two houses on King Graves Road in Trumbull County and personal property of the late Bert Amy, who died at the age of 74, is willed to the mahoning County Historical Society.

April 20, 1933: Youngstown attorney John C. Barrett, former assistant city law director, accepts appointment as third assistant U.S. attorney-general. He will leave for Washington within a few days.

Ben L. Alger, local insurance man, is named general chairman for the 15th Community Fund Campaign. He headed the 1932 campaign, which raised $250,000.