WillDekkard
05-20-2010, 04:05 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- May 20th
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* 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.
* 685 The Battle of Dunnichen or Nechtansmere 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, 2nd Earl of Pembroke.
* 1293 King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Study of General Schools of Alcalα.
* 1497 John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship Matthew looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date).
* 1498 Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India.
* 1521 Battle of Pampeluna: Ignatius Loyola is seriously wounded.
* 1570 Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas.
* 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.
* 1802 By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution
* 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.
* 1835 Otto is named the first modern king of Greece.
* 1840 York Minster is badly damaged by fire
* 1845 HMS Erebus and HMS Terror with 134 men under John Franklin sail from the River Thames in Britain, beginning a disastrous expedition to find the Northwest Passage. All hands are lost.
* 1861 American Civil War: The state of Kentucky proclaims its neutrality, which will last until September 3 when Confederate forces enter the state.
* 1862 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law.
* 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.
* 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 resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others.
* 1902 Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomαs Estrada Palma becomes the first President of Cuba.
* 1916 The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting ("Boy with Baby Carriage").
* 1920 Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America.
* 1927 By the Treaty of Jedda, the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
* 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, touching down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day.
* 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.
* 1940 Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.
* 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.
* 1949 The Kuomintang regime declares martial law in Taiwan.
* 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.
* 1983 First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo individually.
* 1983 A car-bomb explosion kills 17 and injures 197 in the centre of Pretoria, South Africa.
* 1985 Radio Martν, 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.
* 1990 The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.
* 1995 In a second referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a slight majority the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada.
* 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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- May 20th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 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.
* 685 The Battle of Dunnichen or Nechtansmere 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, 2nd Earl of Pembroke.
* 1293 King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Study of General Schools of Alcalα.
* 1497 John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship Matthew looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date).
* 1498 Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India.
* 1521 Battle of Pampeluna: Ignatius Loyola is seriously wounded.
* 1570 Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas.
* 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.
* 1802 By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution
* 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.
* 1835 Otto is named the first modern king of Greece.
* 1840 York Minster is badly damaged by fire
* 1845 HMS Erebus and HMS Terror with 134 men under John Franklin sail from the River Thames in Britain, beginning a disastrous expedition to find the Northwest Passage. All hands are lost.
* 1861 American Civil War: The state of Kentucky proclaims its neutrality, which will last until September 3 when Confederate forces enter the state.
* 1862 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law.
* 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.
* 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 resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others.
* 1902 Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomαs Estrada Palma becomes the first President of Cuba.
* 1916 The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting ("Boy with Baby Carriage").
* 1920 Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America.
* 1927 By the Treaty of Jedda, the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
* 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, touching down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day.
* 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.
* 1940 Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.
* 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.
* 1949 The Kuomintang regime declares martial law in Taiwan.
* 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.
* 1983 First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo individually.
* 1983 A car-bomb explosion kills 17 and injures 197 in the centre of Pretoria, South Africa.
* 1985 Radio Martν, 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.
* 1990 The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.
* 1995 In a second referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a slight majority the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada.
* 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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