Legs presents ~ On This Day

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On this Day ~ May 20th

0325
1st Christian ecumenical council opens at Nicæa, Asia Minor

0526
Earthquake kills 250,000 in Antioch, Syria

1293
Earthquake strikes Kamakura Japan, 30,000 killed

1310
Shoes were made for both right & left feet

1498
Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calcutta India

1690
England passes Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II

1734
1st Jockey Club forms in South Carolina

1768
Dolley Madison, First Lady of the United States was born

1774
Britain gives Québec, Labrador & territory north of the Ohio

1775
Citizens of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina declare independence of Britain

1784
England & Netherlands signs peace treaty (Peace of Paris)

1825
Charles X becomes King of France

1830
1st railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American)

1845
1st legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii

1861
Cornerstone of University of Washington laid in Seattle

1861
Kentucky proclaims its neutrality in Civil War

1861
North Carolina becomes 11th & last state to secede from Union

1867
British parliament rejects John Stuart Mills law on women suffrage

1867
Royal Albert Hall foundation laid by Queen Victoria

1874
Levi Strauss markets blue jeans with copper rivets, price $13.50 doz

1883
The eruption of Krakatoa begins, leading ultimately to the volcano's destruction three months later.

1892
George Sampson patents clothes dryer

1900
2nd modern Olympic games opens in Paris France

1910
Funeral for Britain's King Edward VII

1916
Codell KS hit by tornado (also on same date in 1917 & 1918)

1926
Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies

1927
At 7:40 AM, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic for Paris

1930
1st airplane catapulted from a dirigible, Charles Nicholson, pilot


1932
Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic

1939
Pan Am begins regular transatlantic airmail and passenger service across the North Atlantic

1940
Igor Sikorsky unveils his helicopter invention

1942
US Navy 1st permitted black recruits to serve

1946 - Cher, wa born

1959
Japanese-Americans regain their citizenship

1960
Music DJ Alan Freed, originator of the term "Rock and Roll," is indicted in New York in the Payola scandal. Freed had accepted $30,650 from five record companies to play their records

1961
White mob attacks "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery AL

1967
BBC bans Beatle's "A Day in the Life"

1969
US troop capture Hill 937/Hamburger Hill Vietnam

1970
100,000 march in New York supporting US policies in Vietnam

1977
"Beatlemania" opens on Broadway

1980
710 families in Love Canal area (Niagara Falls NY) are evacuated

1985
Dow Jones industrial average closes above 1300 for 1st time

1986
Flintstones 25th Anniversary Celebration airs on CBS-tv


1989
China declares martial law in Beijing

1989
Toonces The Cat takes the wheel on Saturday Night Live

1990
Hubble Space Telescope sends 1st photographs from space


1993
274th & final "Cheers" on NBC

1995
CBS News fires co-anchor Connie Chung