About May 20
May 20, 2025 is the 140th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 225 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 273 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 20
- 1498 –Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India.
- 1570 –Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas.
- 1775 –Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence signed in Charlotte, North Carolina
- 1802 –By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution
- 1840 –York Minster is badly damaged by fire
- 1873 –Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
- 1882 –The Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy is formed.
- 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.
- 1927 –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. He touched down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day.
- 1941 –World War II: Battle of Crete – German paratroops invade Crete.
- 1949 –In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.
- 1956 –In Operation Redwing (shot Cherokee), the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean;
- 1965 –PIA Flight 705, a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720 – 040 B, crashes while descending to land at Cairo International Airport, killing 119 of the 125 passengers and crew.
- 1969 –The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends.
- 1980 –In a 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 Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
- 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.
- 2002 –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 is the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976).
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