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Today in History: April 20, the Columbine High School shootings

Also on this date, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools.

Police stand outside Columbine High School
Police stand outside the east entrance of Columbine High shool as bomb squads and SWAT teams secure students 20 April 1999 in Littleton, Colorado, after two masked teens on a “suicide mission” stormed the school and blasted fellow students with guns and explosives before turning the weapons on themselves. Police fear at least 25 people were killed. AFP PHOTO/Mark LEFFINGWELL (Photo by MARK LEFFINGWELL / AFP) (Photo by MARK LEFFINGWELL/AFP via Getty Images)
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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.

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