Today In History For April 20th

Today is Wednesday, April 20th, the 110th day of 2011. There are 255 days left in the year.

On April 20, 2010, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform, leased by BP, killed 11 workers and began spewing (by government estimates) about 200 million gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico for nearly three months.

In 1861, Col. Robert E. Lee resigned his commission in the United States Army. (Lee went on to command the Army of Northern Virginia, and eventually became general-in-chief of the Confederate forces.)

In 1972, the manned lunar module from Apollo 16 landed on the moon.