Local history

50 years ago: April 20, 1976

A suspect in two murders in Blair County in March, Jeffrey Daugherty, 20, of Taylor, Mich., was also charged in two robbery murders in Florida. He and his girlfriend, Bonnie Jean Heath, 41, were fighting extradition to Pennsylvania.

25 years ago: April 20, 2001

Altoona police, which was using the VASCAR system to catch speeders that required painted lines on the road, vehicle-mounted equipment and extra cars to stop the speeder, hoped that a bill to allow radar guns would pass the state legislature.

10 years ago: April 20, 2016

The Blair County Commissioners, Bruce Erb chairman, who hired Evaluator Services & Technology to do a tax reassessment of Blair County properties, then hired a consultant named Alan S. Dornfest of Idaho to evaluate them and their reassessment methods.

— Compiled by Tim Doyle

World history

Today is Monday, April 20, the 110th day of 2026. There are 255 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On April 20, 1999, two students shot and killed 12 classmates and one teacher and injured 23 others before taking their own lives at Columbine High School, near Denver, Colorado.

On this date:

– In 1812, the fourth vice president of the United States, George Clinton, died in Washington at age 72, becoming the first vice president to die while in office.

– In 1912, Boston’s Fenway Park, now the oldest active stadium in Major League Baseball, hosted its first official baseball game with an estimated 27,000 spectators. (The Red Sox defeated the New York Highlanders 7-6 in 11 innings.)

– In 1914, private militia and Colorado National Guard members opened fire on an encampment of striking coal miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado; at least 19 people in the camp, including 12 children, and one National Guard member were killed in what became known as the “Ludlow Massacre.”

– In 1971, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools.

– In 1972, Apollo 16’s lunar module, carrying astronauts John W. Young and Charles M. Duke Jr., landed on the moon.

– In 1986, after an absence of six decades, Russian-born pianist Vladimir Horowitz returned to the Soviet Union to perform a concert at the Grand Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory.

— The Associated Press