About May 20

May 20, 2021 is the 140th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 225 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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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 257 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.
  • 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.
  • 1521 –
    Battle of Pampeluna: Ignatius Loyola is seriously wounded.
  • 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.
  • 1802 –
    By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution
  • 1864 –
    American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church – in the Virginia Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory.
  • 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.
  • 1902 –
    Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country’s first President.
  • 1916 –
    The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting (Boy with Baby Carriage).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1983 –
    First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.
  • 1989 –
    The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
  • 1990 –
    The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.
  • 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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