Today is Monday, April 20, the 110th day of 2009. There are 255 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Monday, April 20, the 110th day of 2009. There are 255 days left in the year. On this date in 1999, the Columbine High School massacre takes place in Colorado as two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, shoot and kill 12 classmates and one teacher before taking their own lives.

In 1812, the fourth vice president of the United States, George Clinton, dies in Washington at age 72, becoming the first vice president to die while in office. In 1889, Adolf Hitler is born in Braunau am Inn, Austria. In 1945, during World War II, allied forces take control of the German cities of Nuremberg and Stuttgart. In 1949, scientists at the Mayo Clinic announce they’d succeeded in synthesizing a hormone found to be useful in treating rheumatoid arthritis; the substance is named “cortisone.” In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, unanimously upholds the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools. In 1978, a Korean Air Lines Boeing 707 crash-lands in northwestern Russia after being fired on by a Soviet interceptor after entering Soviet airspace. Two passengers are killed. In 1988, gunmen who hijacked a Kuwait Airways jumbo jet are allowed safe passage out of Algeria under an agreement that frees the remaining 31 hostages and ends a 15-day siege in which two passengers were slain.

April 20, 1984: State Lottery Director Thomas Chema tells the Warren Rotary Club that Ohio’s public schools may gain an additional $50 million from record Ohio Lottery profits.

Youngstown Bishop James W. Malone, president of the U.S. Conference of Bishops, is among a contingent of Catholic Church leaders meeting at the White House with President Ronald Reagan.

Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro wants to appeal a ruling by the Civil Service Commission that five of 21 laid-off city employees should get their jobs back because the city did not submit sufficient documentation to prove that it is short on money.

April 20, 1969: District 26, United Steelworkers of America, establishes a scholarship program and will provide $2,400 ($600 a year) each for five sons or daughters of USW members.

The once-elegant Lincoln Hotel at Lincoln Avenue and N. Phelps Street will be razed to make way for Youngstown State University’s new $1.2 million School of Business Administration.

April 20, 1959: A 33-year-old New Bedford, Pa., man drowns when a car in which he was riding plunges 22 feet from the Main Street Bridge in Poland into Yellow Creek. Dead is Robert E. Ecole.

Dice and poker games provide the entertainment at Krakusy Hall on South Avenue at a Democratic Party stag affair to raise campaign money.

April 20, 1934: Although several county officials announced their willingness to cooperate with the commissioners request that their budgets be cut by 15 percent, County Auditor John J. Arnold says he will not comply.

Five passengers are injured, none critically, when a Nu-Way bus bound from New York to Chicago overturns just west of Bessemer.

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. will build a harbor one mile long and 400 feet wide if the Mahoning-Beaver canal project is approved, says James Miller, field engineer for the company.