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.
- 1570 –Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas.
- 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.
- 1775 –Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence signed in Charlotte, North Carolina
- 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.
- 1875 –Signing of the Metre Convention by 17 nations leading to the establishment of the International System of Units.
- 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.
- 1920 –Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America.
- 1927 –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.
- 1940 –Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1990 –The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.
- 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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