20 Mey

The **20t o Mey** is the 140t day o the year (141t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 225 days ti come.

## Events

* 1498 - Vasco da Gama reaches Calicut in soothren Indie.
* 1503 - Afonso de Albuquerque discovers Ascension Island in the Sooth Atlantic Ocean.
* 1631 - Magdeburg is seized bi Haly Roman Empire forces an maist inhabitants are massacred.
* 1690 - Ingland passes the Act of Grace, forgiein follaers o Catholic James VII & II.
* 1883 - Krakatoa, in present-day Indonesie, stairts a series o eruptions that will end in a major splosion on 27 August.
* 1902 - Cuba gains unthirldom frae the Unitit States.
* 1927 - Treaty o Jeddah: The Unitit Kinrick recognizes the sovereignty o Ibn Saud o the Kinrick o Hejaz an Nejd (later Saudi Arabie).
* 1948 - Chiang Kai-shek is electit Preses o the Republic o Cheenae.
* 1980 - Voters in Quebec reject unthirldom frae Canadae bi 60% tae 40% in a referendum.
* 1990 - Romanie haulds its first walin syne the end on Communist rule.
* 2001 - The Spaingie leid Wikipaedia stairts.
* 2002 - East Timor gains unthirldom frae Unitit Naitions administration efter 24-year occupation bi Indonesie. Portugal wis the oreeginal colonial pouer.
* 2006 - The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae stairts operations.
* 2006 - Monster-rock baund Lordi wins the Eurovision Sang Contest for Finland in Athens, Greece.
* 2013 - Bomb attacks in Iraq kill ower 70 fowk.
* 2013 - A major tornado strikes Moore, Oklahoma, Unitit States.
* 2014 - 118 fowk are kilt in bomb attacks in Jos, Nigerie.
* 2019 - Volodymyr Zelensky becomes Preses o Ukraine.
* 2019 - Steve Clarke is appyntit manager o the Scotland naitional fitbaw team.

## Births

* 1743 - Toussaint Louverture, Haitian revolutionary (d. 1803)
* 1799 - Honoré de Balzac, French novelist an playwricht (d. 1850)
* 1802 - David Octavius Hill, Scots penter an fotografer (d. 1870)
* 1806 - John Stuart Mill, Inglis economist an philosopher (d. 1873)
* 1822 - Frédéric Passy, French economist an academic (d. 1912)
* 1851 - Emile Berliner, German-American inventor (d. 1929)
* 1860 - Eduard Buchner, German chemist (d. 1917)
* 1882 - Sigrid Undset, Norse writer (d. 1949)
* 1883 - Faisal I o Iraq (d. 1933)
* 1901 - Max Euwe, Dutch chess player (d. 1981)
* 1908 - James Stewart, American actor (d. 1997)
* 1915 - Moshe Dayan, Israeli militar leader an politeecian (d. 1981)
* 1935 - José Mujica, umwhile Preses o Uruguay
* 1944 - Joe Cocker, Inglis sangster (d. 2014)
* 1944 - Richard M. Hogg, Scots linguist (d. 2007)
* 1946 - Cher, American sangster an actress
* 1947 - Margaret Wilson, New Zealand politeecian
* 1952 - Roger Milla, Cameroonian fitbawer
* 1957 - Yoshihiko Noda, umwhile Prime meenister o Japan
* 1958 - Ron Reagan, American political commentator
* 1959 - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian sangster (d. 1997)
* 1961 - Anna Signeul, Swadish fitbaw coach, umwhile manager o the Scotland weemen's naitional fitbaw team
* 1967 - Graham Brady, Inglis politeecian
* 1969 - Colin Clark, Scots politeecian
* 1970 - Anne Laird, Scots curler
* 1970 - Louis Theroux, Inglis telly presenter
* 1972 - Busta Rhymes, American rapper an producer
* 1981 - Iker Casillas, Spainyie fitbawer
* 1982 - Petr Cech, Czech fitbawer
* 1985 - Chris Froome, Inglis cyclist

## Daiths
* 1277 - Pape John XXI (b. 1215)
* 1506 - Christopher Columbus, Italian splorer (b. 1451)
* 1622 - Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1604)
* 1732 - Thomas Boston, Scots kirk leader, theologian an philosopher (b. 1676)
* 1896 - Clara Schumann, German pianist an componer (b. 1819)
* 1940 - Verner von Heidenstam, Swadish writer (b. 1854)
* 1947 - Philipp Lenard, German pheesicist (b. 1862)
* 1996 - Jon Pertwee, Inglis actor (b. 1919)
* 2004 - Bryan Molloy, Scots chemist (b. 1939)
* 2011 - Randy Savage, American professional wrestler (b. 1952)
* 2012 - Robin Gibb, Manx-born sangster (The Bee Gees) (b. 1949)
* 2018 - Patricia Morison, American actress (b. 1915)
* 2019 - Niki Lauda, Austrick racin driver (b. 1949)

## Halidays

* Independence Day (Cuba, East Timor)
* Naitional Day (Cameroon)