About May 20

May 20, 2020 is the 141st day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 225 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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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 268 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.
  • 526 –
    An earthquake kills about 300,000 people in Syria and Antiochia.
  • 1570 –
    Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas.
  • 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.
  • 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 U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1916 –
    The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting (Boy with Baby Carriage).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1989 –
    The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
  • 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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