About May 20
May 20, 2023 is the 140th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 225 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 266 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 20
- 325 –The First Council of Nicea – the first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church is held.
- 1293 –King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Study of General Schools of Alcalá.
- 1521 –Battle of Pampeluna: Ignatius Loyola is seriously wounded.
- 1609 –Shakespeare’s sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
- 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.
- 1775 –Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence signed in Charlotte, North Carolina
- 1813 –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.
- 1840 –York Minster is badly damaged by fire
- 1861 –American Civil War: The state of Kentucky proclaims its neutrality, which will last until September 3 when Confederate forces enter the state. Meanwhile, the State of North Carolina secedes from the Union.
- 1862 –U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law.
- 1875 –Signing of the Metre Convention by 17 nations leading to the establishment of the International System of Units.
- 1882 –The Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy is formed.
- 1883 –Krakatoa begins to erupt. The volcano’s final and most notable explosion occurs on August 26.
- 1891 –History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison’s prototype kinetoscope.
- 1896 –The six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier falls on the crowd below resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others.
- 1908 –Budi Utomo organization is founded in Dutch East Indies, beginning the Indonesian National Awakening.
- 1920 –Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America.
- 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.
- 1949 –In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.
- 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 gays and lesbians.
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