About May 20
May 20, 2024 is the 141st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 225 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 254 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 20
- 526 –An earthquake kills about 300,000 people in Syria and Antiochia.
- 685 –The Battle of Dun Nechtain is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, 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, 1st Earl of Pembroke.
- 1293 –King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Study of General Schools of Alcalá.
- 1497 –John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship Ship looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date).
- 1570 –Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas.
- 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.
- 1884 –Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo becomes the king of the Zulu Nation.
- 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.
- 1902 –Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country’s first President.
- 1908 –Budi Utomo organization is founded in Dutch East Indies, beginning the Indonesian National Awakening.
- 1941 –World War II: Battle of Crete – German paratroops invade Crete.
- 1948 –Chiang Kai-shek elected to be the first President of the Republic of China.
- 1949 –In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.
- 1983 –First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.
- 1985 –Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
- 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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