Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 20 May.
- 1st Christian ecumenical council opens at Nicaea - Asia Minor
- Christopher Columbus died in poverty in Spain
- Mecklenburg County - NC citizens declare independence from England
- 1st railroad timetable published in newspaper -`Baltimore American'
- 1st legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii
- NC becomes 10th state to secede from US
- Homestead Act provides cheap land for settlement of West
- Intl Bureau of Weights & Measures established by treaty
- US ends occupation of Cuba
- Thomas Edison said Americans preferred silent movies over talkies
- Lindbergh flew NY-Paris - 1st solo flight across Atlantic
- Earhart left Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic
- Pan Am began transatlantic passenger & air mail service
- Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane - Bikini Atoll
- Yanks sink to last place - 1st time since May 25 - 1940
- White mob attacks `Freedom Riders' in Montgomery - Alabama
- Republic of Cameroon declared
- Soyuz 14 returns to Earth
- Viking 1 - Mars landing
- US Launches Pioneer Venus 1-produces 1st global radar map of Venus
- Cambodian Martyrs Day
- Dow Jones Avg closes above 1300 for 1st time
- FBI arrests John A Walker Jr - convicted of spying for USSR
- US began broadcasts to Cuba on Radio Marti
