About the day » Saturday April 20, 1974Calender converter

• Willem Alexander Kooiman, Andijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Roland Diederik Schraa, Staphorst († 2022)

• Cornelis Collé (89), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Berendina Johanna Huis In 't Veld (61), Apeldoorn
• Ada Emmaline Fowler (81), Horry County, South Carolina
• Ada Dell Canter (100), Dallas, Polk, Oregon, Verenigde Staten
• Dirk Arjens DYKSTRA (84), Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Spronk (84)
• Célestine Marie Joseph SINTIVE (70), Vermelles(62)... Hauts de France
• Cornelis As, van (86), Scherpenisse gem. Tholen Zld. NL
• Cornelis van As (86), Scherpenisse, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Neijenhof (74), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands

• 1972 » Željko Joksimović, Serbian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1972 » Carmen Electra, American model and actress
• 1972 » Lê Huỳnh Đức, Vietnamese footballer, coach, and manager
• 1972 » Stephen Marley, American singer, guitarist, and producer
• 1973 » Isabel dos Santos, Angolan businesswoman and first African woman billionaire
• 1973 » Lamond Murray, American basketball player
• 1974 » Adrian Ilie, Romanian footballer
• 1974 » Julie Fernandez, English actress and model
• 1974 » Urmas Paet, Estonian journalist and politician, 26th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1975 » Killer Mike, American rapper and activist

• 1961 » Ado Vabbe, Estonian painter (b. 1892)
• 1967 » Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1896)
• 1968 » Rudolph Dirks, German-American illustrator (b. 1877)
• 1969 » Vjekoslav Luburić, Croatian Ustaše official and concentration camp administrator (b. 1914)
• 1980 » M. Canagaratnam, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1924)
• 1982 » Archibald MacLeish, American poet, playwright, and lawyer (b. 1892)
• 1986 » Sibte Hassan, Pakistani journalist, scholar, and activist (b. 1916)
• 1991 » Don Siegel, American director and producer (b. 1912)
• 1991 » Steve Marriott, English singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1947)
• 1992 » Marjorie Gestring, American springboard diver (b. 1922)

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
• February 4 » M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.
• March 3 » Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
• April 29 » Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
• May 9 » Watergate scandal: The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
• November 20 » The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.
• November 20 » The first fatal crash of a Boeing 747 occurs when Lufthansa Flight 540 crashes while attempting to takeoff from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, killing 59 out of the 157 people on board.

The temperature on April 20, 1974 was between 0.7 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.