
May 20 is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (141st in leap years). There are 225 days remaining. ==Events== *325 - The First Council of Nicaea – the first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church – is held. *526 - An List of earthquakes kills about 300,000 people in Syria and Antiochia. *685 - The Battle of Nechtansmere is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith of Northumbria, who are decisively defeated. *1217 - The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke. *1293 - King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. *1497 - John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship ''The Mathew'' looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date). *1498 - Portugal explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India. *1521 - Battle of Pampeluna. *1570 - Cartography Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas. *1631 - The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years War. *1690 - England passes the Act of Grace, forgiving followers of Catholic James II of England. *1813 - Napoleon Bonaparte leads his France troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ends the next day with a French victory. *1845 - HMS Erebus and HMS Terror with 134 men under John Franklin sail from the River Thames in England, beginning a disastrous expedition to find the Northwest Passage. All hands are lost. *1861 - American Civil War: The state of Kentucky proclaims its neutral country, which will last until September 3 when Confederate States of America forces enter the state. *1862 - President of the United States Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law. *1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church - In the Virginia Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory. *1873 - Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a US patent for blue jeans with copper rivets. *1882 - The Triple Alliance (1882) between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy is formed. *1883 - The volcanic eruption of Krakatoa begins, leading ultimately to the volcano's destruction three months later. *1891 - History of cinema: First public display of Thomas Alva Edison's prototype kinetoscope (shown at Edison's Laboratory for a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs). *1902 - Cuba gains independence from the United States. *1916 - The ''Saturday Evening Post'' publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting ("Boy with Baby Carriage"). *1916 - The U.S. town of Codell, Kansas, Kansas, is struck by an F2 tornado. *1917 - The U.S. town of Codell, Kansas, Kansas, is struck by an F3 tornado. *1918 - For the third consecutive year on this date, the U.S. town of Codell, Kansas, Kansas, is struck by a tornado. *1920 - The Weimarer Nationalversammlung, the national assembly of Germany's Weimar Republic, is permanently dissolved. *1920 - Montreal Quebec station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America. *1927 - By the Treaty of Jedda, the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of List of kings of Saudi Arabia Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Najd, which later merged to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. *1927 - At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, touching down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day). *1932 - Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day. *1940 - Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz. *1941 - World War II: Battle of Crete – Germany paratroops invade Crete. *1949 - In the US, the AFSA (the predecessor of the National Security Agency) is established. *1954 - Chiang Kai-shek is selected for another term as President of the Republic of China by the National Assembly of the Republic of China *1965 - A Pakistani Airlines Boeing 720-B crashes on landing at Cairo airport, killing 121 people. *1969 - The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends. *1980 - In a 1980_Quebec_referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a 60% vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada. *1985 - Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba. *1989 - The People's Republic of China authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre. *1990 - The first post-communism presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania. *1993 - The television sitcom, ''Cheers'' ends an 11-year run on NBC. *1996 - Gay rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in ''Romer v. Evans'' against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of homosexuals. *2002 - East Timor becomes independent from Indonesian rule. ==Births== *1470 - Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal (d. 1547) *1726 - Francis Cotes, English painter (d. 1770) *1737 - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, British statesman (d. 1805) *1759 - William Thornton, architect of the United States Capitol (d. 1828) *1768 - Dolley Madison, First Lady of the United States (d. 1849) *1772 - Sir William Congreve (inventor), English inventor (d. 1828) *1799 - Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (d. 1850) *1806 - John Stuart Mill, English philosopher (d. 1873) *1830 - Hector Malot, writer (d. 1907) *1838 - Jules Méline, French statesman (d. 1925) *1851 - Emil Berliner, telephone and recording pioneer (d. 1929) *1860 - Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917) *1882 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1949) *1883 - King Faisal I of Iraq (d. 1933) *1894 - Adela Rogers St. Johns, author (d. 1988) *1895 - R. J. Mitchell, Britain aircraft designer, developer of the Spitfire (d. 1937) *1901 - Max Euwe, Dutch world chess champion (d. 1981) *1903 - Barbara Hepworth, British sculptor (d. 1975) *1905 - Gerrit Achterberg, poet *1906 - Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1989) *1908 - James Stewart (actor), American actor (d. 1997) *1911 - Annie M. G. Schmidt, children's book writer *1911 - Gardner Fox, writer (d. 1986) *1913 - William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard (d. 2001) *1915 - Moshe Dayan, Israeli general (d. 1981) *1916 - Corneliu Coposu, Romanian politician (d. 1995) *1916 - Trebisonda Valla, Italian athlete *1919 - George Gobel, comedian (d. 1991) *1920 - Betty Driver, big band singer and actor *1921 - Wolfgang Borchert, German writer (d. 1947) *1921 - Hal Newhouser, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1998) *1926 - Bob Sweikert, American racing driver, (d. 1956) *1927 - Bud Grant, American football coach *1930 - James McEachin, actor *1931 - Ken Boyer, baseball player (d. 1982) *1935 - Marinella, Greek singer *1936 - Anthony Zerbe, actor *1940 - Stan Mikita, Slovak-born Canadian Hockey Hall of Famer *1940 - Sadaharu Oh, Japanese baseball star *1942 - David Proval, actor *1944 - Joe Cocker, British singer *1944 - Boudewijn de Groot, Dutch singer *1944 - Dietrich Mateschitz, Austrian businessman and founder of Red Bull *1946 - Cher (entertainer), actress and singer *1947 - Greg Dyke, former BBC Director-General of the BBC *1952 - Roger Milla, Cameroonian footballer *1955 - Zbigniew Preisner, Polish film composer *1956 - Ingvar Ambjørnsen, Norwegian author *1958 - Ron Reagan, dancer, talk show host, son of Ronald Reagan *1958 - Jane Wiedlin, American singer (The Go-Go's) *1959 - Bronson Pinchot, American actor *1959 - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian singer *1960 - John Billingsley, American actor *1960 - Tony Goldwyn, American actor *1962 - Mike Jeffries, American soccer coach *1966 - Mindy Cohn, American actress *1968 - Timothy Olyphant, American actor *1970 - Louis Theroux, British television presenter *1971 - Tony Stewart, American racecar driver *1972 - Tina Hobley, British actress *1972 - Busta Rhymes, rap music singer *1976 - Ramón Hernández, Major League Baseball player *1977 - Miriam Parrish, American actress *1981 - Lindsay Taylor, American basketball player *1981 - Íker Casillas, Spain football (soccer) ==Deaths== *685 - Ecgfrith of Northumbria, king of Northumbria (b. 645) *1277 - Pope John XXI *1506 - Christopher Columbus, explorer (b. 1451) *1550 - Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1510) *1622 - Osman II, Ottoman Emperor (b. 1604) *1793 - Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist (b. 1720) *1841 - Joseph Blanco White, British theologian (b. 1775) *1873 - Sir George-Étienne Cartier, French-Canadian statesman (b. 1814) *1896 - Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (b. 1819) *1917 - Philipp von Ferrary, stamp collector (b. 1850) *1940 - Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish writer (b. 1859) *1956 - Max Beerbohm, theater critic (b. 1872) *1971 - Waldo Williams, poet (b. 1904) *1989 - Gilda Radner, comedian, actress (b. 1946) *1996 - Jon Pertwee, actor (b. 1919) *2000 - Jean Pierre Rampal, French flautist (b. 1922) *2001 - Renato Carosone, Italian musician and singer *2002 - Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist (b. 1941) *2005 - Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher (b. 1913) ==Holidays and observances== * Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church: ** Bernadine of Siena ** Theodore of Pavia ** Saint Lucifer ** Austregisilus ** Ivo of Chartres *Cameroon National Day *East Timor National Day ==Misc== Eliza Doolittle Day from ''My Fair Lady'' == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/20 BBC: On This Day] ---- May 19 - May 21 - April 20 - June 20 – historical anniversaries bs:Maj 20 li:20 mei th:20 พฤษภาคม
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May 20 is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (141st in leap years). There are 225 days remaining. ==Events== *325 - The First Council of Nicaea – the first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church – is held. *526 - An List of earthquakes kills about 300,000 people in Syria and Antiochia. *685 - The Battle of Nechtansmere is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith of Northumbria, who are decisively defeated. *1217 - The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke. *1293 - King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. *1497 - John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship ''The Mathew'' looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date). *1498 - Portugal explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India. *1521 - Battle of Pampeluna. *1570 - Cartography Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas. *1631 - The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years War. *1690 - England passes the Act of Grace, forgiving followers of Catholic James II of England. *1813 - Napoleon Bonaparte leads his France troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ends the next day with a French victory. *1845 - HMS Erebus and HMS Terror with 134 men under John Franklin sail from the River Thames in England, beginning a disastrous expedition to find the Northwest Passage. All hands are lost. *1861 - American Civil War: The state of Kentucky proclaims its neutral country, which will last until September 3 when Confederate States of America forces enter the state. *1862 - President of the United States Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law. *1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church - In the Virginia Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory. *1873 - Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a US patent for blue jeans with copper rivets. *1882 - The Triple Alliance (1882) between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy is formed. *1883 - The volcanic eruption of Krakatoa begins, leading ultimately to the volcano's destruction three months later. *1891 - History of cinema: First public display of Thomas Alva Edison's prototype kinetoscope (shown at Edison's Laboratory for a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs). *1902 - Cuba gains independence from the United States. *1916 - The ''Saturday Evening Post'' publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting ("Boy with Baby Carriage"). *1916 - The U.S. town of Codell, Kansas, Kansas, is struck by an F2 tornado. *1917 - The U.S. town of Codell, Kansas, Kansas, is struck by an F3 tornado. *1918 - For the third consecutive year on this date, the U.S. town of Codell, Kansas, Kansas, is struck by a tornado. *1920 - The Weimarer Nationalversammlung, the national assembly of Germany's Weimar Republic, is permanently dissolved. *1920 - Montreal Quebec station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America. *1927 - By the Treaty of Jedda, the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of List of kings of Saudi Arabia Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Najd, which later merged to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. *1927 - At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, touching down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day). *1932 - Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day. *1940 - Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz. *1941 - World War II: Battle of Crete – Germany paratroops invade Crete. *1949 - In the US, the AFSA (the predecessor of the National Security Agency) is established. *1954 - Chiang Kai-shek is selected for another term as President of the Republic of China by the National Assembly of the Republic of China *1965 - A Pakistani Airlines Boeing 720-B crashes on landing at Cairo airport, killing 121 people. *1969 - The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends. *1980 - In a 1980_Quebec_referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a 60% vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada. *1985 - Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba. *1989 - The People's Republic of China authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre. *1990 - The first post-communism presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania. *1993 - The television sitcom, ''Cheers'' ends an 11-year run on NBC. *1996 - Gay rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in ''Romer v. Evans'' against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of homosexuals. *2002 - East Timor becomes independent from Indonesian rule. ==Births== *1470 - Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal (d. 1547) *1726 - Francis Cotes, English painter (d. 1770) *1737 - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, British statesman (d. 1805) *1759 - William Thornton, architect of the United States Capitol (d. 1828) *1768 - Dolley Madison, First Lady of the United States (d. 1849) *1772 - Sir William Congreve (inventor), English inventor (d. 1828) *1799 - Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (d. 1850) *1806 - John Stuart Mill, English philosopher (d. 1873) *1830 - Hector Malot, writer (d. 1907) *1838 - Jules Méline, French statesman (d. 1925) *1851 - Emil Berliner, telephone and recording pioneer (d. 1929) *1860 - Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917) *1882 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1949) *1883 - King Faisal I of Iraq (d. 1933) *1894 - Adela Rogers St. Johns, author (d. 1988) *1895 - R. J. Mitchell, Britain aircraft designer, developer of the Spitfire (d. 1937) *1901 - Max Euwe, Dutch world chess champion (d. 1981) *1903 - Barbara Hepworth, British sculptor (d. 1975) *1905 - Gerrit Achterberg, poet *1906 - Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1989) *1908 - James Stewart (actor), American actor (d. 1997) *1911 - Annie M. G. Schmidt, children's book writer *1911 - Gardner Fox, writer (d. 1986) *1913 - William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard (d. 2001) *1915 - Moshe Dayan, Israeli general (d. 1981) *1916 - Corneliu Coposu, Romanian politician (d. 1995) *1916 - Trebisonda Valla, Italian athlete *1919 - George Gobel, comedian (d. 1991) *1920 - Betty Driver, big band singer and actor *1921 - Wolfgang Borchert, German writer (d. 1947) *1921 - Hal Newhouser, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1998) *1926 - Bob Sweikert, American racing driver, (d. 1956) *1927 - Bud Grant, American football coach *1930 - James McEachin, actor *1931 - Ken Boyer, baseball player (d. 1982) *1935 - Marinella, Greek singer *1936 - Anthony Zerbe, actor *1940 - Stan Mikita, Slovak-born Canadian Hockey Hall of Famer *1940 - Sadaharu Oh, Japanese baseball star *1942 - David Proval, actor *1944 - Joe Cocker, British singer *1944 - Boudewijn de Groot, Dutch singer *1944 - Dietrich Mateschitz, Austrian businessman and founder of Red Bull *1946 - Cher (entertainer), actress and singer *1947 - Greg Dyke, former BBC Director-General of the BBC *1952 - Roger Milla, Cameroonian footballer *1955 - Zbigniew Preisner, Polish film composer *1956 - Ingvar Ambjørnsen, Norwegian author *1958 - Ron Reagan, dancer, talk show host, son of Ronald Reagan *1958 - Jane Wiedlin, American singer (The Go-Go's) *1959 - Bronson Pinchot, American actor *1959 - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian singer *1960 - John Billingsley, American actor *1960 - Tony Goldwyn, American actor *1962 - Mike Jeffries, American soccer coach *1966 - Mindy Cohn, American actress *1968 - Timothy Olyphant, American actor *1970 - Louis Theroux, British television presenter *1971 - Tony Stewart, American racecar driver *1972 - Tina Hobley, British actress *1972 - Busta Rhymes, rap music singer *1976 - Ramón Hernández, Major League Baseball player *1977 - Miriam Parrish, American actress *1981 - Lindsay Taylor, American basketball player *1981 - Íker Casillas, Spain football (soccer) ==Deaths== *685 - Ecgfrith of Northumbria, king of Northumbria (b. 645) *1277 - Pope John XXI *1506 - Christopher Columbus, explorer (b. 1451) *1550 - Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1510) *1622 - Osman II, Ottoman Emperor (b. 1604) *1793 - Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist (b. 1720) *1841 - Joseph Blanco White, British theologian (b. 1775) *1873 - Sir George-Étienne Cartier, French-Canadian statesman (b. 1814) *1896 - Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (b. 1819) *1917 - Philipp von Ferrary, stamp collector (b. 1850) *1940 - Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish writer (b. 1859) *1956 - Max Beerbohm, theater critic (b. 1872) *1971 - Waldo Williams, poet (b. 1904) *1989 - Gilda Radner, comedian, actress (b. 1946) *1996 - Jon Pertwee, actor (b. 1919) *2000 - Jean Pierre Rampal, French flautist (b. 1922) *2001 - Renato Carosone, Italian musician and singer *2002 - Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist (b. 1941) *2005 - Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher (b. 1913) ==Holidays and observances== * Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church: ** Bernadine of Siena ** Theodore of Pavia ** Saint Lucifer ** Austregisilus ** Ivo of Chartres *Cameroon National Day *East Timor National Day ==Misc== Eliza Doolittle Day from ''My Fair Lady'' == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/20 BBC: On This Day] ---- May 19 - May 21 - April 20 - June 20 – historical anniversaries bs:Maj 20 li:20 mei th:20 พฤษภาคม
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