ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

April 20

❑ 1 year ago… Musk’s blow up

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship, below, the most powerful rocket ever built, launches but explodes just minutes into its first flight.

❑ 3 years ago… Cop guilty

Former police officer Derek Chauvin is convicted of the murder of African American George Floyd, 46, in Minneapolis, US.

❑ 6 years ago… Arsene Wenger quits after 22 years

The Arsenal boss announces he will leave the club at the end of the season.

❑ 8 years ago… Victoria Wood dies

The popular comedian, who starred in sitcoms like Dinnerladies, dies aged 62 after battling cancer.

❑ 14 years ago… Oil spill tragedy

An explosion on BP’s Deepwater Horizon platform in the Gulf of Mexico kills 11 workers and leads to a 200million-gallon spill of crude oil.

❑ 25 years ago… School massacre

A shooting and bombing spree by American students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold at Columbine High School in Denver leaves 15 dead including the two culprits.

❑ 32 years ago… Benny Hill dies

The British comic, right, star of The Benny Hill Show, which ran from 1955 to 1989, dies aged 68 in London after suffering kidney failure.

❑ 43 years ago… Steve Davis wins

The 23-year-old snooker star, left, wins his first World Championship crown at the Crucible, beating Doug Mountjoy.

❑ 56 years ago… Race controversy

Tory MP Enoch Powell causes a political storm with his infamous “Rivers of Blood” speech about immigration.

❑ 112 years ago… Horror author dies

Irish-born Bram Stoker, writer of the 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula, dies aged 64, virtually penniless, in London.

❑ 135 years ago…Adolf Hitler born

The future Nazi dictator is born in the Austrian town of Braunau am Inn, the son of Alois Hitler, a civil servant.

❑ 413 years ago… Macbeth debuts

The Shakespeare play about the murderous Scot who plots to become king, is staged for the first time at the Globe Theatre.