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April 20, 2012

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 18, 2012, covering April 20, 2012.

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    Album cover for Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded by Nicki Minaj

    Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded

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    Album cover for 21 by Adele

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    Album cover for Changed by Rascal Flatts

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    Album cover for Tuskegee by Lionel Richie

    Tuskegee

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    Album cover for Up All Night by One Direction

    Up All Night

    One Direction

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Notable Deaths

Bert Weedon

2012Bert Weedon, English guitarist and songwriter (born 1920)[†]

Herbert Maurice William Weedon, OBE was an English guitarist whose style of playing was popular and influential during the 1950s and 1960s. He was the first British guitarist to have a hit record in the UK singles chart, in 1959, and his best-selling tutorial, Play in a Day, was a major influence on many leading British musicians, such as Eric Clapton, Brian May and Paul McCartney. He was awarded an OBE in 2001 for his "services to music".

Historical Events

Bhoja Air Flight 213

2012One hundred twenty-seven people are killed when a plane crashes in a residential area near the Benazir Bhutto International Airport near Islamabad, Pakistan.[†]

Bhoja Air Flight 213 was a domestic scheduled passenger flight operated by Pakistani private airline Bhoja Air from Karachi to Islamabad. On 20 April 2012, the Boeing 737-236A aircraft serving the route crashed in bad weather during the final approach, killing all 121 passengers and 6 crew on board. It remains the second deadliest air disaster in Pakistan, after the 2010 crash of Airblue Flight 202.

Historical Context for April 20, 2012

In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]