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Sunday April 20, 2014 This is the 110th day of the year, with 255 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: FBI Ten Most Wanted List The FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list began in 1950 to draw national attention to dangerous criminals who had avoided capture. The idea for the list came about in 1949 when a reporter asked the FBI for a list of names of the most dangerous criminals that the FBI was looking for. The story created so much positive press that J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI at the time, implemented the "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list. The fugitives on the list are not ranked in any type of order. Thomas James Holden was the first person to make the fugitive list in 1950 and was arrested in 1951. The first woman to make the list was Ruth Eisemann-Schier in 1968 and she was arrested in 1969. A fugitive must meet certain criteria to make the "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list. When a fugitive no longer meets the criteria, is captured, or has the charges against him or her dropped, the fugitive's name is removed from the list and replaced with a new one.
Holidays Feast day of St. Caedwalla,St. Agnes of Montepulciano, St. Marcellinus of Embrun, St. Marcian of Auxerre, St. Hildegund, and St. Peter of Verona.
Events 1534 - French explorer Jacques Cartier arrived on the coast of Labrador, North America.
1792 - France declared war on Austria, marking the start of the French Revolutionary wars.
1836 - The Territory of Wisconsin was established by Congress.
1871 - Congress authorized President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial law, impose heavy penalties against terrorist organizations, and use military force to suppress the Ku Klux Klan.
1879 - The first mobile home (horse-drawn) was used in a journey from London to Cyprus.
1902 - Scientists Pierre Curie and Marie Curie isolated the radioactive chemical element, radium.
1916 - Wrigley Field opened in Chicago.
1934 - Shirley Temple made her movie debut in "Stand Up and Cheer."
1940 - RCA publicly demonstrated its new and powerful electron microscope.
1945 - Allied forces took control of the German cities of Nuremberg and Stuttgart in World War II.
1969 - Pierre Trudeau became Prime Minister of Canada.
1971 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools.
1999 - The Columbine High School massacre took place in Littleton, Colorado. Students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot and killed 12 classmates and one teacher and wounded 26 others before taking their own lives.
Births 1745 - Philippe Pinel, French physician, founder of psychiatry.
1850 - Daniel Chester French, American sculptor of Lincoln Memorial.
1889 - Adolf Hitler, German Nazi dictator (1933-1945).
1937 - George Takei, American television actor.
1951 - Luther Vandross, American R&B singer and songwriter.
1961 - Don Mattingly, American baseball player.
1972 - Carmen Electra (born Tara Leigh Patrick), American actress.
Deaths 1912 - Bram Stoker, Irish author of "Dracula."
1992 - Benny Hill (born Alfred Hawthorne Hill), British comedian.
1999 - Señor Wences (born Wenceslao Moreno), Spanish ventriloquist and comedian.
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