{"id":4757,"date":"2023-05-20T03:17:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T21:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=4757"},"modified":"2023-05-09T15:52:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T10:22:16","slug":"history-of-20-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-20-may\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 20 May"},"content":{"rendered":"

History of 20 May<\/h2>\n

1902<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0military occupation of Cuba ended.<\/p>\n

1902<\/strong> – Cuba gained its independence from Spain.<\/p>\n

1916<\/strong> – Norman Rockwell\u2019s first cover on “The Saturday Evening Post” appeared.<\/p>\n

1926<\/strong> – The U.S. Congress passed the Air Commerce Act. The act gave the Department of Commerce the right to license pilots and planes.<\/p>\n

1927<\/strong> – Charles Lindbergh took off from New York to cross the Atlantic for Paris aboard his airplane the “Spirit of St. Louis.” The trip took 33 1\/2 hours.<\/p>\n

1930<\/strong> – The first airplane was catapulted from a dirigible.<\/p>\n

1932<\/strong> –\u00a0Amelia Earhart\u00a0took off to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She became the first woman to achieve the feat.<\/p>\n

1933<\/strong> – “Charlie Chan” was heard for the final time on the NBC Blue radio network, after only six months on the air.<\/p>\n

1939<\/strong> – The first telecast over telephone wires was sent from Madison Square Garden to the NBC-TV studios at 30 Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. The event was a bicycle race.<\/p>\n

1939<\/strong> – The first regular air-passenger service across the Atlantic Ocean began with the take-off of the “Yankee Clipper” from Port Washington, New York.<\/p>\n

1941<\/strong> – Germany invaded Crete by air.<\/p>\n

1942<\/strong> – Japan completed the conquest of Burma.<\/p>\n

1961<\/strong> – A white mob attacked the Freedom Riders in Montgomery,\u00a0AL. The event prompted the federal government to send\u00a0U.S.marshals.<\/p>\n

1969<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S.\u00a0and South Vietnamese forces captured Apbia Mountain, which was referred to as Hamburger Hill.<\/p>\n

1970<\/strong> – 100,000 people marched in New York supporting\u00a0U.S.\u00a0policies in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

1978<\/strong> – Mavis Hutchinson, at age 53, became the first woman to run across America. It took Hutchinson 69 days to run the 3,000 miles.<\/p>\n

1980<\/strong> – The submarine\u00a0Nautilus<\/i>\u00a0was designated as a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior.<\/p>\n

1982<\/strong> – TV\u2019s “Barney Miller” was seen for the last time on ABC-TV.<\/p>\n

1985<\/strong> – The Dow Jones industrial average broke the 1300 mark for the first time. The Dow closed at 1304.88.<\/p>\n

1985<\/strong> – The FBI arrested U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer John Walker. Walker had begun spying for the Soviet Union in 1968.<\/p>\n

1985<\/strong> – Radio Marti was launched.<\/p>\n

1990<\/strong> – The Hubble Space Telescope sent back its first photographs.<\/p>\n

1993<\/strong> – The final episode of “Cheers” was aired on NBC-TV.<\/p>\n

1996<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Supreme Court struck down a Colorado measure banning laws that would protect homosexuals from discrimination.<\/p>\n

1999<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n

2010<\/strong> – Scientists announced that they had created a functional synthetic genome.<\/p>\n

2010<\/strong> – Five paintings worth 100 million Euro were stolen from the Mus\u00e9e d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.<\/p>\n

2012<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 At least 27 people are killed and 50 others injured when a\u00a06.0-magnitude earthquake\u00a0strikes northern Italy.<\/p>\n

2013<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 An\u00a0EF5\u00a0tornado\u00a0strikes the\u00a0Oklahoma City\u00a0suburb of\u00a0Moore, killing 24 people and injuring 377 others.<\/p>\n

Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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  • 1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Iker Casillas, Spanish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Rachel Platten, American singer, and songwriter<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Lindsay Taylor, American basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Mark Winterbottom, Australian race car driver<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Petr \u010cech, Czech footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Imran Farhat, Pakistani cricketer<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jessica Raine, English actress<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Daniel Ribeiro, Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u00d3scar Cardozo, Paraguayan footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Matt Langridge, English rower<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mauro Rafael da Silva, Brazilian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Patrick Ewing, Jr., American basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Keith Grennan, American football player<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Chris Froome, Kenyan-English cyclist<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Brendon Goddard, Australian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Dexter Blackstock, English footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0St\u00e9phane Mbia, Cameroonian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ji\u0159ina Svobodov\u00e1, Czech pole vaulter<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mike Havenaar, Japanese footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Julian Wright, American basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Joel Moon, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Siosia Vave, Australian-Tongan rugby league player<\/li>\n
  • 1991<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Bastian Baker, Swiss singer, songwriter, and performer<\/li>\n
  • 1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Emre Colak, Turkish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1992<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Cate Campbell, Malawian-Australian swimmer<\/li>\n
  • 1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jack Gleeson, Irish actor<\/li>\n
  • 1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Enes Kanter, Turkish basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1993<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Caroline Zhang, American figure skater<\/li>\n
  • 1996<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Brian Kelly, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n
  • 1998<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jamie Chadwick, English race car driver<\/li>\n
  • 1998<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Nam Nguyen, Canadian figure skater<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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