{"id":21033,"date":"2020-05-20T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T03:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=21033"},"modified":"2020-05-20T09:01:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T03:31:51","slug":"history-of-20-may-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-20-may-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 20 May"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History of 20 May<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> &#8211; The Hubble Space Telescope sent back its first photographs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong> &#8211; The final episode of &#8220;Cheers&#8221; was aired on NBC-TV.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996<\/strong> &#8211; The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Supreme Court struck down a Colorado measure banning laws that would protect homosexuals from discrimination.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999<\/strong> &#8211; At Heritage High School in Conyers, GA, a 15-year-old student shot and injured six students. He then surrendered to an assistant principal at the school.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2010<\/strong> &#8211; Scientists announced that they had created a functional synthetic genome.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2010<\/strong> &#8211; Five <a href=\"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/top-15-most-expensive-indian-paintings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">paintings<\/a> worth 100 million Euro were stolen from the Mus\u00e9e d&#8217;Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2012<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 At least 27 people are killed and 50 others injured when a\u00a06.0-magnitude earthquake\u00a0strikes northern Italy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2013<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 An\u00a0EF5\u00a0tornado\u00a0strikes the\u00a0Oklahoma City\u00a0suburb of\u00a0Moore, killing 24 people and injuring 377 others.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2019<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0International System of Units\u00a0(SI): The base units are redefined, making the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/15-most-interesting-international-borders-in-the-world\/\">international<\/a> prototype of the kilogram\u00a0obsolete.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\u00a0Celebrating Birthday Today<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Rachel Platten, American singer and songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Lindsay Taylor, American basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Mark Winterbottom, Australian race car driver<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Petr \u010cech, Czech footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Imran Farhat, Pakistani cricketer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jessica Raine, English actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Daniel Ribeiro, Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u00d3scar Cardozo, Paraguayan footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Matt Langridge, English rower<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mauro Rafael da Silva, Brazilian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Patrick Ewing, Jr., American basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Keith Grennan, American football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Chris Froome, Kenyan-English cyclist<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Brendon Goddard, Australian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Dexter Blackstock, English footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0St\u00e9phane Mbia, Cameroonian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ji\u0159ina Svobodov\u00e1, Czech pole vaulter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mike Havenaar, Japanese footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Julian Wright, American basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Joel Moon, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013 Silesia Valve, Australian-Tongan rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Bastian Baker, Swiss singer, songwriter, and performer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Emre Colak, Turkish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Cate Campbell, Malawian-Australian swimmer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jack Gleeson, Irish actor<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Enes Kanter, Turkish basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Caroline Zhang, American figure skater<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brian_Kelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brian Kelly<\/a>, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jamie Chadwick, English race car driver<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Nam Nguyen, Canadian figure skater<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 20 May 1990 &#8211; 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