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May 20th, 2008 (May 20 2008) | Event | United States Senator Ted Kennedy is diagnosed with a brain tumor. | |
May 20th, 2008 (May 20 2008) | Event | Ma Ying-jeou is sworn in as President of the Republic of China (Taiwan). | |
May 20th, 2008 (May 20 2008) | Death | Hamilton Jordan, former Carter White House Chief of Staff (born in 1944) | |
May 20th, 2007 (May 20 2007) | Death | Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer (born in 1914) | |
May 20th, 2005 (May 20 2005) | Death | Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher (born in 1913) | Philo Quotes |
May 20th, 2005 (May 20 2005) | Death | William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General (born in 1918) | |
May 20th, 2002 (May 20 2002) | Event | The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and 3 years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself was the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976). | |
May 20th, 2002 (May 20 2002) | Death | Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (born in 1941) | Stephen Jay Gould Quotes |
May 20th, 2001 (May 20 2001) | Death | Renato Carosone, Italian musician (born in 1920) | |
May 20th, 2000 (May 20 2000) | Death | Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist (born in 1922) | |
May 20th, 2000 (May 20 2000) | Death | Malik Sealy, American basketball player (born in 1970) | |
May 20th, 1996 (May 20 1996) | Event | 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 gays and lesbians. | Evans Quotes |
May 20th, 1996 (May 20 1996) | Death | Jon Pertwee, British actor (born in 1919) | |
May 20th, 1995 (May 20 1995) | Event | In a second referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a slight majority the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada. | |
May 20th, 1993 (May 20 1993) | Birth | Caroline Zhang, American figure skater | |
May 20th, 1992 (May 20 1992) | Death | Roger Keith Coleman, American convict | |
May 20th, 1990 (May 20 1990) | Event | The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania. | |
May 20th, 1989 (May 20 1989) | Event | The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre. | Martial Quotes |
May 20th, 1989 (May 20 1989) | Death | John Hicks, English economist, Nobel laureate (born in 1904) | |
May 20th, 1989 (May 20 1989) | Death | Gilda Radner, American comedian and actress (born in 1946) | Gilda Radner Quotes |
May 20th, 1988 (May 20 1988) | Birth | Carla Humphries, Filipina actress | |
May 20th, 1986 (May 20 1986) | Birth | Dexter Blackstock, English footballer | |
May 20th, 1986 (May 20 1986) | Birth | LaLa Brown, American singer (died in 2007) | |
May 20th, 1985 (May 20 1985) | Event | Radio Marti, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba. | |
May 20th, 1984 (May 20 1984) | Event | The first line of the Miami Metrorail in Miami, Florida opens. | |
May 20th, 1983 (May 20 1983) | Event | First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo individually. | |
May 20th, 1983 (May 20 1983) | Birth | Jr. NTR, Indian film actor | |
May 20th, 1982 (May 20 1982) | Birth | Petr Cech, Czech footballer | |
May 20th, 1982 (May 20 1982) | Birth | Imran Farhat, Pakistani cricketer | |
May 20th, 1981 (May 20 1981) | Birth | Iker Casillas, Spanish footballer | |
May 20th, 1981 (May 20 1981) | Birth | Calico Cooper, American actress and dancer | |
May 20th, 1981 (May 20 1981) | Birth | Lindsay Taylor, American basketball player | |
May 20th, 1981 (May 20 1981) | Birth | Mark Winterbottom, Australian racing driver | |
May 20th, 1980 (May 20 1980) | Event | In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a 60% vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada. | |
May 20th, 1980 (May 20 1980) | Birth | Austin Kearns, American Baseball player | |
May 20th, 1977 (May 20 1977) | Birth | Matt Czuchry, American actor | |
May 20th, 1977 (May 20 1977) | Birth | Leonardo Noeren Franco, Argentine footballer | |
May 20th, 1977 (May 20 1977) | Birth | Miriam Parrish, American television actress | |
May 20th, 1977 (May 20 1977) | Birth | Angela Goethals, American actress | |
May 20th, 1977 (May 20 1977) | Birth | Vesa Toskala, Finnish ice hockey player | |
May 20th, 1976 (May 20 1976) | Birth | Ramon Hernandez, Venezuelan baseball player | |
May 20th, 1976 (May 20 1976) | Birth | Tomoya Satozaki, Japanese baseball player | |
May 20th, 1976 (May 20 1976) | Death | Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (born in 1911) | |
May 20th, 1976 (May 20 1976) | Death | Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan politician, member of the Christian-Democrat party, and Hector Gutierrez Ruiz "disappeared" | |
May 20th, 1975 (May 20 1975) | Birth | Isaac Galvez, Spanish cyclist (died in 2006) | |
May 20th, 1975 (May 20 1975) | Birth | Mark Zupan, American quadriplegic rugby player | |
May 20th, 1975 (May 20 1975) | Death | Barbara Hepworth, British sculptor (born in 1903) | |
May 20th, 1973 (May 20 1973) | Birth | Elsa Lunghini, French singer and actress | |
May 20th, 1973 (May 20 1973) | Death | Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (born in 1945) | |
May 20th, 1972 (May 20 1972) | Birth | Tina Hobley, British television actress | |
May 20th, 1972 (May 20 1972) | Birth | Busta Rhymes, American singer and rapper | |
May 20th, 1971 (May 20 1971) | Birth | Sarka Kasparkova, Czech athlete | |
May 20th, 1971 (May 20 1971) | Birth | Tony Stewart, American race car driver | |
May 20th, 1971 (May 20 1971) | Death | Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (born in 1904) | |
May 20th, 1970 (May 20 1970) | Birth | Louis Theroux, British television presenter | |
May 20th, 1970 (May 20 1970) | Birth | Terrell Brandon, American basketball player | |
May 20th, 1969 (May 20 1969) | Event | The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends. | |
May 20th, 1969 (May 20 1969) | Birth | Brian Gerard James, American professional wrestler | |
May 20th, 1968 (May 20 1968) | Birth | Timothy Olyphant, American actor | |
May 20th, 1968 (May 20 1968) | Birth | Waisale Serevi, Fijian rugby union and rugby sevens footballer | |
May 20th, 1967 (May 20 1967) | Birth | Gabriele Muccino, Italian film director | |
May 20th, 1967 (May 20 1967) | Birth | Ramzi Yousef, Kuwaiti-born Pakistani terrorist | |
May 20th, 1967 (May 20 1967) | Birth | Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece | |
May 20th, 1966 (May 20 1966) | Birth | Mindy Cohn, American actress | |
May 20th, 1966 (May 20 1966) | Birth | Dan Abrams, American TV reporter | |
May 20th, 1966 (May 20 1966) | Birth | Gina Ravera, American actress | |
May 20th, 1965 (May 20 1965) | Event | PIA Flight 705, a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 040 B crashes while descending to land at Cairo International Airport, killing 119 of the 125 passengers and crew. | |
May 20th, 1965 (May 20 1965) | Birth | Ted Allen, American television host | |
May 20th, 1963 (May 20 1963) | Birth | David Wells, American baseball player | |
May 20th, 1962 (May 20 1962) | Birth | Mike Jeffries, American soccer coach | |
May 20th, 1961 (May 20 1961) | Birth | Clive Allen, English footballer | |
May 20th, 1961 (May 20 1961) | Death | Josef "Pips" Priller, German fighter ace (born in 1915) | |
May 20th, 1960 (May 20 1960) | Birth | John Billingsley, American actor | |
May 20th, 1960 (May 20 1960) | Birth | Chuck Brodsky, American musician | Chuck D Quotes |
May 20th, 1960 (May 20 1960) | Birth | Tony Goldwyn, American actor | |
May 20th, 1959 (May 20 1959) | Birth | Israel Kamakawiwo ole, American singer (died in 1997) | |
May 20th, 1959 (May 20 1959) | Birth | Bronson Pinchot, American actor | |
May 20th, 1958 (May 20 1958) | Birth | Ron Reagan, American talk show host | Ron Reagan Quotes |
May 20th, 1958 (May 20 1958) | Birth | Jane Wiedlin, American singer (The Go-Go s) | |
May 20th, 1956 (May 20 1956) | Event | In Operation Redwing, (shot Cherokee), the first US airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean; | |
May 20th, 1956 (May 20 1956) | Birth | Ingvar Ambjornsen, Norwegian author | |
May 20th, 1956 (May 20 1956) | Birth | Dean Butler, American actor | |
May 20th, 1956 (May 20 1956) | Birth | William Michaelian, American novelist and poet | |
May 20th, 1956 (May 20 1956) | Death | Max Beerbohm, English theater critic (born in 1872) | Max Beerbohm Quotes |
May 20th, 1955 (May 20 1955) | Birth | Zbigniew Preisner, Polish film composer | |
May 20th, 1954 (May 20 1954) | Event | Chiang Kai-shek is selected for another term as President of the Republic of China by the National Assembly. | |
May 20th, 1954 (May 20 1954) | Birth | Guy Hoffman, American musician (Violent Femmes) | |
May 20th, 1954 (May 20 1954) | Birth | David Paterson, American politician | |
May 20th, 1954 (May 20 1954) | Birth | Cindy Hensley McCain, wife of John McCain | John McCain Quotes |
May 20th, 1954 (May 20 1954) | Birth | Robert Van de Walle, Belgian judoka | |
May 20th, 1953 (May 20 1953) | Birth | Robert Doyle, Australian politician | |
May 20th, 1952 (May 20 1952) | Birth | Roger Milla, Cameroonian footballer | |
May 20th, 1951 (May 20 1951) | Birth | Mike Crapo, American politician | |
May 20th, 1950 (May 20 1950) | Birth | Yvon Lambert, French Canadian ice hockey player | |
May 20th, 1950 (May 20 1950) | Birth | Reinaldo Merlo, Argentine footballer | |
May 20th, 1949 (May 20 1949) | Event | In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency) is established. | |
May 20th, 1949 (May 20 1949) | Event | The Kuomintang regime declares Taiwan is under martial law. | Martial Quotes |
May 20th, 1949 (May 20 1949) | Birth | Dave Thomas, Canadian comedian & actor | |
May 20th, 1949 (May 20 1949) | Death | Randolph West, American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (born in 1890) | |
May 20th, 1947 (May 20 1947) | Birth | Greg Dyke, British broadcast executive | |
May 20th, 1947 (May 20 1947) | Death | Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (born in 1862) | |
May 20th, 1946 (May 20 1946) | Birth | Cher, American singer | |
May 20th, 1946 (May 20 1946) | Death | Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (born in 1871) | |
May 20th, 1945 (May 20 1945) | Birth | Vladimiro Montesinos, Peruvian politician | |
May 20th, 1944 (May 20 1944) | Birth | Joe Cocker, British singer | |
May 20th, 1944 (May 20 1944) | Birth | Boudewijn de Groot, Dutch singer | |
May 20th, 1944 (May 20 1944) | Birth | Dietrich Mateschitz, Austrian businessman | |
May 20th, 1943 (May 20 1943) | Birth | Al Bano, Italian singer | |
May 20th, 1942 (May 20 1942) | Birth | Carlos Hathcock, American Marine sniper (died in 1999) | |
May 20th, 1942 (May 20 1942) | Birth | Jill Jackson, American singer | |
May 20th, 1941 (May 20 1941) | Event | World War II: Battle of Crete - German paratroops invade Crete. | |
May 20th, 1941 (May 20 1941) | Birth | Goh Chok Tong, Singaporean Senior Minister | |
May 20th, 1941 (May 20 1941) | Birth | John Strasberg, American actor | |
May 20th, 1941 (May 20 1941) | Birth | Manuel Isaias Lopez, Mexican child psychiatrist | |
May 20th, 1940 (May 20 1940) | Event | Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz. | |
May 20th, 1940 (May 20 1940) | Birth | Stan Mikita, Slovak-born ice hockey player | |
May 20th, 1940 (May 20 1940) | Birth | Sadaharu Oh, Japanese baseball player | |
May 20th, 1940 (May 20 1940) | Birth | Shorty Long, American musician (died in 1969) | |
May 20th, 1940 (May 20 1940) | Death | Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (born in 1859) | |
May 20th, 1938 (May 20 1938) | Birth | Marinella, Greek singer and actress | |
May 20th, 1936 (May 20 1936) | Birth | Anthony Zerbe, American actor | |
May 20th, 1936 (May 20 1936) | Birth | Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican reggae and dub artist | |
May 20th, 1932 (May 20 1932) | Event | 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. | |
May 20th, 1932 (May 20 1932) | Birth | Bob Florence, American jazz pianist, composer, arranger (died in 2008) | |
May 20th, 1931 (May 20 1931) | Birth | Ken Boyer, American baseball player (died in 1982) | |
May 20th, 1931 (May 20 1931) | Birth | Paul Evans, American furniture designer and sculptor (d.1987) | Evans Quotes |
May 20th, 1930 (May 20 1930) | Birth | Sam Etcheverry, American football player and coach | |
May 20th, 1928 (May 20 1928) | Birth | Jack Kevorkian, controversial American medical doctor | Jack Kevorkian Quotes |
May 20th, 1927 (May 20 1927) | Event | By the Treaty of Jedda, the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merged to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. | |
May 20th, 1927 (May 20 1927) | Event | At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world s first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, touching down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day. | |
May 20th, 1927 (May 20 1927) | Birth | Bud Grant, American football coach | |
May 20th, 1927 (May 20 1927) | Birth | Franciszek Macharski, Polish Cardinal | |
May 20th, 1927 (May 20 1927) | Birth | David Hedison, American actor | |
May 20th, 1926 (May 20 1926) | Birth | Bob Sweikert, American race car driver (died in 1956) | |
May 20th, 1926 (May 20 1926) | Birth | John Lucarotti, TV writer (died in 1994) | |
May 20th, 1925 (May 20 1925) | Birth | Chester Ludgin, American baritone (died in 2003) | |
May 20th, 1921 (May 20 1921) | Birth | Wolfgang Borchert, German writer (died in 1947) | |
May 20th, 1921 (May 20 1921) | Birth | Hal Newhouser, American baseball player (died in 1998) | |
May 20th, 1920 (May 20 1920) | Event | The Weimarer Nationalversammlung, the national assembly of Germany s Weimar Republic, is permanently dissolved. | |
May 20th, 1920 (May 20 1920) | Event | Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America. | |
May 20th, 1920 (May 20 1920) | Birth | John Cruickshank, Scottish airman, won Victoria Cross | John Scott Quotes |
May 20th, 1920 (May 20 1920) | Birth | Betty Driver, English singer and actress | |
May 20th, 1919 (May 20 1919) | Birth | Gerhard Barkhorn, German fighter pilot (died in 1983) | |
May 20th, 1919 (May 20 1919) | Birth | George Gobel, American comedian (died in 1991) | |
May 20th, 1918 (May 20 1918) | Birth | Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (died in 2004) | |
May 20th, 1917 (May 20 1917) | Birth | Guy Favreau, French Canadian lawyer (died in 1967) | |
May 20th, 1917 (May 20 1917) | Birth | Bergur Sigurbjornsson, Icelandic politician (died in 2005) | |
May 20th, 1917 (May 20 1917) | Death | Philipp von Ferrary, Italian philatelist (born in 1850) | |
May 20th, 1917 (May 20 1917) | Death | Valentine Fleming, Scottish politician (born in 1887) | |
May 20th, 1916 (May 20 1916) | Event | The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting ("Boy with Baby Carriage"). | |
May 20th, 1916 (May 20 1916) | Event | The small town of Codell, Kansas is struck by a tornado. Incredibly, the same town was also hit in 1917 and 1918 on the exact same date. | |
May 20th, 1916 (May 20 1916) | Birth | Trebisonda Valla, Italian athlete (died in 2006) | |
May 20th, 1916 (May 20 1916) | Birth | Alexei Petrovich Maresiev, Russian flying ace (died in 2001) | |
May 20th, 1915 (May 20 1915) | Birth | Moshe Dayan, Israeli general (died in 1981) | Moshe Dayan Quotes |
May 20th, 1914 (May 20 1914) | Birth | Corneliu Coposu, Romanian politician (died in 1995) | |
May 20th, 1914 (May 20 1914) | Birth | Hideko Maehata, Japanese swimmer (died in 1995) | |
May 20th, 1913 (May 20 1913) | Birth | William Hewlett, American engineer (died in 2001) | |
May 20th, 1911 (May 20 1911) | Birth | Gardner Fox, American writer (died in 1986) | |
May 20th, 1909 (May 20 1909) | Death | Ernest Hogan, blackface comedian and musician (born in 1859) | |
May 20th, 1908 (May 20 1908) | Event | Establishment of Boedi Oetoemo. Indonesians mark it as the National Awakening Day. | |
May 20th, 1908 (May 20 1908) | Birth | James Stewart, American actor (died in 1997) | |
May 20th, 1906 (May 20 1906) | Birth | Giuseppe Siri, Italian Catholic cardinal (died in 1989) | |
May 20th, 1902 (May 20 1902) | Event | Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomas Estrada Palma becomes the first President of Cuba. | |
May 20th, 1901 (May 20 1901) | Birth | Max Euwe, Dutch chess player (died in 1981) | |
May 20th, 1899 (May 20 1899) | Birth | Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (died in 1969) | |
May 20th, 1899 (May 20 1899) | Birth | John Marshall Harlan II, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (died in 1971) | John Marshall Quotes |
May 20th, 1897 (May 20 1897) | Birth | Diego Abad de Santillan, Spanish anarchist (died in 1983) | |
May 20th, 1896 (May 20 1896) | Event | The six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier falls on the crowd resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others. | |
May 20th, 1896 (May 20 1896) | Death | Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (born in 1819) | |
May 20th, 1895 (May 20 1895) | Birth | R. J. (Reginald Joseph) Mitchell, British aircraft designer (died in 1937) | |
May 20th, 1894 (May 20 1894) | Birth | Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Indian Hindu sage, Jivanmukta (died in 1994) | |
May 20th, 1891 (May 20 1891) | Event | History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison s prototype kinetoscope (shown at Edison s Laboratory for a convention of the National Federation of Women s Clubs). | |
May 20th, 1883 (May 20 1883) | Event | Krakatoa begins to erupt. The volcano s final and most notable explosion occurs on August 26. | |
May 20th, 1883 (May 20 1883) | Birth | King Faisal I of Iraq (died in 1933) | |
May 20th, 1882 (May 20 1882) | Event | The Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy is formed. | |
May 20th, 1882 (May 20 1882) | Birth | Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author, Nobel laureate (died in 1949) | |
May 20th, 1873 (May 20 1873) | Event | Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets. | |
May 20th, 1873 (May 20 1873) | Death | Sir George-Etienne Cartier, French-Canadian statesman (born in 1814) | |
May 20th, 1864 (May 20 1864) | Event | American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Churchin the Virginia Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory. | |
May 20th, 1862 (May 20 1862) | Event | U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law. | Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
May 20th, 1861 (May 20 1861) | Event | American Civil War: The state of Kentucky proclaims its neutrality, which will last until September 3 when Confederate forces enter the state. | |
May 20th, 1860 (May 20 1860) | Birth | Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel laureate (died in 1917) | |
May 20th, 1851 (May 20 1851) | Birth | Emil Berliner, German-born recording pioneer (died in 1929) | |
May 20th, 1845 (May 20 1845) | Event | 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. | |
May 20th, 1841 (May 20 1841) | Death | Joseph Blanco White, British theologian (born in 1775) | |
May 20th, 1840 (May 20 1840) | Event | York Minster was badly damaged by fire | |
May 20th, 1838 (May 20 1838) | Birth | Jules Meline, French statesman (died in 1925) | |
May 20th, 1835 (May 20 1835) | Event | Otto is named the first modern king of Greece. | |
May 20th, 1834 (May 20 1834) | Death | Gilbert du Motier, French statesman (born in 1757) | |
May 20th, 1830 (May 20 1830) | Birth | Hector Malot, French writer (died in 1907) | |
May 20th, 1825 (May 20 1825) | Death | Papaflessas, Greek priest and government official (born in 1788) | |
May 20th, 1822 (May 20 1822) | Birth | Frederic Passy, French economist, Nobel laureate (died in 1912) | |
May 20th, 1818 (May 20 1818) | Birth | William Fargo, co-founder of Wells, Fargo & Company (died in 1881) | |
May 20th, 1813 (May 20 1813) | Event | Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French 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. | Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
May 20th, 1806 (May 20 1806) | Birth | John Stuart Mill, English philosopher (died in 1873) | John Stuart Mill Quotes |
May 20th, 1799 (May 20 1799) | Birth | Honore de Balzac, French novelist (died in 1850) | Honore de Balzac Quotes |
May 20th, 1793 (May 20 1793) | Death | Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist (born in 1720) | |
May 20th, 1782 (May 20 1782) | Death | William Emerson, British mathematician (born in 1701) | |
May 20th, 1772 (May 20 1772) | Birth | Sir William Congreve, English inventor (died in 1828) | William Congreve Quotes |
May 20th, 1769 (May 20 1769) | Birth | Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician (died in 1835) | |
May 20th, 1768 (May 20 1768) | Birth | Dolley Madison, First Lady of the United States (died in 1849) | |
May 20th, 1759 (May 20 1759) | Birth | William Thornton, West Indian-born architect (died in 1828) | |
May 20th, 1737 (May 20 1737) | Birth | William Petty Fitzmaurice, British statesman (died in 1805) | |
May 20th, 1732 (May 20 1732) | Death | Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (born in 1676) | |
May 20th, 1726 (May 20 1726) | Birth | Francis Cotes, English painter (died in 1770) | |
May 20th, 1722 (May 20 1722) | Death | Sebastien Vaillant, French botanist (born in 1669) | |
May 20th, 1717 (May 20 1717) | Death | John Trevor, British statesman (born in 1637) | |
May 20th, 1713 (May 20 1713) | Death | Thomas Sprat, English writer (born in 1635) | |
May 20th, 1706 (May 20 1706) | Birth | Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (died in 1777) | |
May 20th, 1690 (May 20 1690) | Event | England passes the Act of Grace, forgiving followers of Roman Catholic James II. | |
May 20th, 1677 (May 20 1677) | Death | George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (born in 1612) | |
May 20th, 1663 (May 20 1663) | Birth | William Bradford, British-born printer (died in 1752) | William Bradford Quotes |
May 20th, 1660 (May 20 1660) | Birth | Andreas Schluter, German sculptor (died in 1714) | |
May 20th, 1648 (May 20 1648) | Death | King Wladislaus IV of Poland (born in 1595) | |
May 20th, 1631 (May 20 1631) | Event | 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. | |
May 20th, 1622 (May 20 1622) | Death | Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (born in 1604) | |
May 20th, 1609 (May 20 1609) | Event | Shakespeare s Sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe. | |
May 20th, 1593 (May 20 1593) | Birth | Salomo Glassius, German theologian (died in 1656) | |
May 20th, 1570 (May 20 1570) | Event | Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas. | Abraham Quotes |
May 20th, 1554 (May 20 1554) | Birth | Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer (died in 1594) | |
May 20th, 1550 (May 20 1550) | Death | Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (born in 1510) | |
May 20th, 1521 (May 20 1521) | Event | Battle of Pampeluna: Ignatius Loyola is seriously wounded. | |
May 20th, 1506 (May 20 1506) | Death | Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (born in 1451) | Christopher Columbus Quotes |
May 20th, 1503 (May 20 1503) | Death | Lorenzo de Medici, Italian patron (born in 1463) | |
May 20th, 1498 (May 20 1498) | Event | Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India. | |
May 20th, 1497 (May 20 1497) | Event | John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship Matthew looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date). | |
May 20th, 1470 (May 20 1470) | Birth | Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal (died in 1547) | |
May 20th, 1444 (May 20 1444) | Death | Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary (born in 1380) | |
May 20th, 1315 (May 20 1315) | Birth | Bonne of Luxembourg, wife of John II of France (died in 1349) | |
May 20th, 1293 (May 20 1293) | Event | King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Study of General Schools of Alcala. | |
May 20th, 1285 (May 20 1285) | Death | John II of Jerusalem, King of Cyprus (born in 1259) | |
May 20th, 1277 (May 20 1277) | Death | Pope John XXI (born in 1215) | |
May 20th, 1217 (May 20 1217) | Event | 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. | |
May 20th, 0685 (May 20 0685) | Event | The Battle of Dunnichen or Nechtansmere is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated. | |
May 20th, 0685 (May 20 0685) | Death | King Ecgfrith of Northumbria (born in 645) | |
May 20th, 0526 (May 20 0526) | Event | An earthquake kills about 300,000 people in Syria and Antiochia. | |
May 20th, 0325 (May 20 0325) | Event | The First Council of Nicaea - the first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church is held. | |