MAY 20TH: THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Friday, May 20, 2016
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| Gold Rush in California in history |
1873 Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive patent for blue jeans
American Revolution
- 1778 Battle of Barren Hill, Pennsylvania
Automotive
- 1995 Street in front of the White House closed to traffic
Civil War
- 1862 Union Congress passes the Homestead Act
Cold War
- 1956 United States drops hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll
Crime
- 2005 Mary Kay Letourneau marries former victim
Disaster
- 1965 Plane crashes at Cairo airport
General Interest
- 1498 Vasco da Gama reaches India
- 1506 Christopher Columbus dies
- 1862 The Homestead Act
- 1927 Spirit of St. Louis departs
- 1969 Battle for Hamburger Hill ends
- 1996 Supreme Court defends rights of homosexuals
Hollywood
- 2007 The Simpsons airs 400th episode
Literary
- 1946 W.H. Auden becomes a U.S. citizen
Music
- 1998 Frank Sinatra is laid to rest
Old West
- 1873 Levi Strauss patents copper-riveted jeans
Presidential
- 1862 Lincoln signs Homestead Act
Sports
- 1989 Sunday Silence wins Preakness by a nose
Vietnam War
- 1953 French see “light at the end of the tunnel” in Vietnam
- 1969 Kennedy criticizes the “Hamburger Hill” battle
World War I
- 1915 British renew attacks in Battle of Festubert
World War II
- 1940 Germans break through to English Channel at Abbeville, France
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