20. May

The 20. May is the 140. Day of the Gregorian calendar (the 141. in leap years), thus still 225 days up to the year end remain.

of events

• 1346: Karl IV. as papal Gegenkönig of Ludwig Bavaria 1498 are selected of
• Luxembourg: The Portuguese discoverer Vasco Gama reaches India there and lands in Calicut
• 1570: Abraham Ortelius publishes the first modern Atlas
• 1802: Napoléon Bonaparte permits (1794 abolished) the slavery in French colonies again.
• 1813: The battle with Bautzen between the coalition and the Frenchmen begins
• 1838: Josef of low ones basesin Geneva the Grütliverein
• 1882: Germany, Austria Hungary and Italy decide the three-federation
• 1902: Cuba attains the independence from the USA
• 1927: Saudi Arabia attains independence from the united kingdom
• 1927: Charles Lindbergh starts in New York tofirst however crossing of the Atlantiks
• 1932: Amelia Earhart starts from Newfoundland to the first however crossing of the Atlantiks of a woman
• 1934: Konrad von Parzham - civil Johann of beer villages - becomes of Pope Pius XI. holy spoken
• 1940: The first prisonersmeet in the again built KZ Auschwitz one
• 1941: German invasion on Crete
• 1954: Chiang dock shek becomes a president of Taiwan
• 1965: The committee of the Bundestag for work and social order supports a law project, which the chord - and assembly line work for Pregnant woman with special arrangements forbids
• 1972: Popular vote to the united Republic of Cameroon from the past French and British parts
• of 1989: The Chinese prime minister left Peng imposes the martial law due to student protests at the place of the Himmli peace
• 1990: Thosefirst post office communist presidency and parliamentary elections in Romania are accomplished
• 2000: Chen Shui bian becomes a head of state in Taiwan
• 2002: Osttimor becomes independent as „Republica Democratica de Timor Leste “ of Indonesia
• 2004: In Malawi the parliament and that become President selected
• 2005: The date 20.05.2005 arranged many pairs to select this day for their marriage not only because one can forget the wedding day then hardly. Some already announced themselves to Christmas, and many offices set doublyso many registrars of births, marriages and deaths

economics

• a 1873: Levi bunch lets the Jeans patent
• 1949: In west Berlin „the German Mark of west is explained “as the exclusive currency

to science and technology

• 1293: King Sancho IV. creates in Alcalá de Henares the later Universidad Complutense de Madrid
• 1570: Abraham Ortelius publishes Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern Atlas
• 1875: The signing of the Meterkonvention by 17 states establishes the internationally uniform metricSystem
• 1934: In the Kieler to port Rudolf Kühnhold the first attempts with one of it succeed developed radar device
• 1965: On the Färöern the Fróðskaparsetur Føroya is created, the national University of

culture

• 1721: Premiere of the opera L'odio e l'amore of Giovanni Bononcini at the King's Theatre in London
• 1839: Premiere of the opera the rain brothers of Ignaz Lachner in Stuttgart
• 1874: Premiere of the opera Brankovics György of Ferenc Erkel in Budapest
• 1933: Premiere of the opera Merry Mount of Howard Hansen in Ann Arbor
• 1961: Premiere of the opera Elegy for Young Lovers of Hans's Werner Henze in Schwetzingen
• 1970: World premiere of the music film Let it with the British volume The the Beatles
• 1979: Elton John gives as the first western Popstar a concert in the Soviet Union in Leningrad

to disasters

• 526: An earthquake in Antiochia, Syria kills 300,000 humans
• 1928: Poisonous gas misfortune by withdrawing phosgene on the area of the companiesProud mountain in Hamburg; 1935 hurt 10 dead ones, about
• 150: Earthquake of the strength 7.1 on Taiwan, 3,280 dead ones
• 1965: A Boeing of Pakistan 727-B falls with the landing in Cairo ; 121 humans die
• 2002: India. End of the heat wave also over 50 °C. Over 750 dead ones within one week

sport

• 1983: Larry of cross-beam won its Boxkampf and world champion title in the heavyweight against Tim Witherspoon in the Dunes hotel, read Vegas, Nevada, the USA, by point victory
• 1998: In the final of the UEFA champion League the football club wins material Madrid in Amsterdam against Juventus Turin
• 2001: The fiber plastic Bavaria Munich wins the German football championship in the last minute. Afterfiber plastic Schalke 04 felt for 4 minutes as masters, leaves Patrick Anderson all blue-white dreams by a free impact gate in the 94. Burst to minute
• 2001: The fiber plastic pc. Pauli wins with 2:1 with the fiber plastic Nuremberg and rises to4 times into the 1. Soccer federal league on

entries from athlete IC world records are under the respective discipline under Leichtathletik; for events within the range formula 1 see there.

born

• 1470: Pietro Bembo, Italian human
• 1593: Jacob Jordaens, flämischer painter
• 1664: Andreas Schlüter, Prussian architect and sculptor
• 1753: François Dominique Toussaint Louverture, Haitian freedom fighter
• 1754: Elisa of the Recke, GermanPolish Dichterin
• 1759: William Thornton, architect of the Kapitolsin Washington, D. C.
• 1764: Johann Gottfried Schadow, Prussian sculptor (Quadriga on the breaking citizen gate)
• 1780: Bernardino Rivadavia, Argentine statesman and first president
• 1799: Honoré de Balzac, French writer
• 1804: Mikhail Glinka,Russian composer
• 1805: George Gottfried Gervinus, German historian and politician
• 1806: John Stuart Mill, English philosopher and economist
• 1811: Ernst Methfessel, German composer
• 1818: Jens Christian Hostrup, Danish writer
• 1822: Frédéric Passy, French peace activist and Nobel peace prize carrier
• 1825: Antoinette Brown Blackwell, first ordinierte Pastorin of the USA
• 1830: Hector Malot, French poet
• 1832: Garretson W. Gibson, former president of Liberia
• 1838: Jules Méline,French politician and Prémierminister
• 1844: Henri Rousseau, French painter
• 1851: Emil citizen of Berlin, is considered as an inventor of the record and the Grammophons
• 1856: Henri Edmond CROSS, French painter
• 1860: Eduard Buchner, German chemist (Nobelpreis1907)
• 1872: Albert Steinrück, German actor
• 1882: Sigrid and set, Scandinavian authoress, Nobelpreis for literature 1928
• 1883: Faisal I., King Iraq
• of the 1888: Man Francken, Netherlands football player
• 1900: Erika Cremer, GermanProfessorin of physics
• 1900: Karl ash castle, German photographer
• 1901: Max Euwe, Netherlands chess world champion
• 1902: Helmuth Domizlaff, German second hand bookseller
• 1904: Margery Allingham, British crime film authoress
• 1906: Inches Auerbach, German-American photo artist
• 1906: Giuseppe Siri, Italian cardinal
• 1907: Franz Jägerstätter, Austrian LV resistance fighter
• 1907: Hedda Zinner, German authoress, actress
• 1908: James Stewart, US-American Filmschauspieler
• 1909: Erich Kunz, Austrian opera singer
• 1913: Isaak Pomerantschuk, RussianPhysicist
• 1913: Isolde Oschmann, SED Funktionärin of the GDR
• 1913: William Hewlett, US-American entrepreneur
• 1914: Hans Gerd merry, German refugee politician and MdB
• 1914: Hermann Götz, German politician and MdB
• 1915: Mo Dajan, IsraeliGeneral and politician
• 1916: Luise Ermisch, candidate of the Politbüros of the ZK of the SED
• 1916: Carl Malsch, German Evangelist minister
• 1916: Trebisonda Valla, Italian light athlete and Olympiasiegerin
• 1918: Edward B. Lewis, US-American Genetikerand Nobelpreisträger
• 1918: Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter
• 1921: Wolfgang Borchert, German writer and stage poet
• 1924: Otto houses, writers
• 1925: Refuge Alisch, German caricaturist and Comic draughtsman
• 1926: Vic Ames, US-American singer
• 1927: Franciszek Macharski, archbishop of Krakau and cardinal
• 1928: Werner Buedeler, German television journalist and moderator
• 1930: Theo Peer, Austrian pianist, ORF editor and Kabarettist
• 1936: Gerhard Paul, German clergyman, author of church songs
• 1937: Hanna Krall, Polish authoress and lady journalist
• 1937: Franz stone radiators, German trade unionist and chairman of the industrial union metal
• 1937: Teddy Randazzo, US-American singer and Songschreiber
• 1940: Shorty Long, US-American singer
• 1941: Goh ChokTong, prime minister of Singapore
• 1941: Josef black, German athlete
• 1942: Egon Jüttner, German politician and MdB
• 1942: Paula, US-American singer
• 1943: Terry Smith, British musician
• 1944: Joe Cocker, British Rhythmand Blues singer
• 1944: Rudolph Giuliani, New Yorker mayor
• 1944: Marilyn Black, former Australian light athlete and Olympionikin
• 1945: Anton Zeilinger, professor, led experiments to the Quantenteleportation by
• 1946: Cher, US-American singer and actress
• 1947: Bernhard Paul, German clown and circus entrepreneur (Circus Roncalli)
• 1947: Sky Dumont, German actor
• 1950: Alex Broughton, British musician
• 1951: Warren Cann, British musician
• 1952: Roger Milla, Cameroonian football player
• 1953: Roland Gerber, former football player
• 1953: Tato Gomez, Chilean musician
• 1954: Esko Tapani Aho, Finnish politician and head of the government
• 1954: Jimmy Henderson, US-American musician
• 1955: Christa realm pool of broadcasting corporations, German politician and MdB
• 1955: Zbigniew Preisner, Polish composer
• 1955: Mark David Chapman, murderer by John Lennon
• 1956: Boris Akunin, Russian author of detective stories
• 1956: Ingvar Ambjørnsen, writer
• 1958: Jane Weidlin, US-American musician
• 1959: Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian musician
• 1960: John Billingsley, US-American actor
• 1960: Gates Brunborg, Norwegian jazz musician
• 1960: John Cowsill, US-American singer
• 1960: Susan Cowsill, US-American singer
• 1961: Achim Greser, caricaturist (Greser& spring)
• 1961: Nod Heyward, British musician
• 1962: Cha Peau, charm artist (Magier)
• 1962: Christiane F., former Fixerin (we children of the station zoo)
• 1964: Andreas Storm, German politician and MdB
• 1965: Roberta Brunet, Italian light athlete and Olympionikin
• 1970: Andreas's tome, former German wheel running driver
• 1972: Ralph Ruthe, German author, musician and Cartoonist
• 1972: Busta Rhymes, US-American Hip Hop artist
• 1973: Ship master, German RWSby (fatBread)
• 1981: Iker Casillas, national goalkeeper of the Spanish football crew
• 1981: Jana Tucholke, German light athlete

died

• 0,965: Mark count Gero
• 1285: Jahann I. by Cyprus and/or Johann II. of Jerusalem
• 1449: Peterof Portugal, prince von Portugal and first duke of Coimbra
• 1471: Heinrich VI., King of England from the house Lancaster
• 1506: Christoph Kolumbus, sailor and (again) discoverer America
• 1509: Caterina Sforza, countess of Forli
• 1527: Hans Hergot, German printer, bookseller and Protestant author
• 1609: George Rollenhagen, German writer, paedagogue and Prediger
• 1615: Johann Heinrich of Lindenau, owner of manor
• 1622: Osman II., Sultan Osmani realm
• of the 1648: Wladyslaw IV. Vasa, Polish king/quasi Zar of Russia
• 1713: Thomas Sprat, English bishop and author
• 1784: Alexander Ross, Scottish poet
• 1793: Charles Bonnet, scientist and philosopher
• 1795: Ludwig Eugen, 13. Dukeof Württemberg
• 1820: Karl Ludwig sand, radical Burschenschafter; Murderer by August von Kotzebue
• 1834: Lafayette, French general and politician
• 1854: Karl Ludwig von Haller, Schweizer Staatsrechtler
• 1896: Clara Schumann, German Komponistin, Pianistin
• 1906: Claire of Glümer, German authoress and translator
• 1915: Carl Klönne, banker
• 1932: Bubber Miley, US-American jazz musician and Trompeter
• 1935: William Friedle, operations director of Daimler Benz AG
• 1940: Verner of Heidenstam,Swedish poet
• 1942: Hector Guimard, French architect
• 1945: Alexander Fersman, Russian-Soviet Mineraloge, geo chemist and Kristallograf
• 1947: Philipp Eduard Anton of Leonberg, German physicist and Nobelpreisträger
• 1954: Robert Capa, US-American photographer
• 1956: Alois Hitler, Halbbruder von Adolf Hitler
• 1959: Jakob Joos, German physicist
• 1959: Otto Bartning, German architect and architectural theorist
• 1961: Josef Priller, German flighter pilot in the Second World War
• 1962: Josef Uridil, Austrian football player
• 1965: Edgar Barth, German running driver
• 1974: Jean Guenolé Marie Daniélou, Jesuit and cardinal of the Roman-catholic church
• 1974: Leontine Sagan, Austrian stage and film rain eating urine
• 1975: Lady Barbara Hepworth, British sculptress
• 1982: Merle Antony Tuve, American physicist and geophycisist
• 1983: Clair Bee, US-American basketball coach
• 1989: John smelling pool of broadcasting corporations Hicks, economist 20. Century
• 1994: Ludwig people wood, Bavarian politician and MdB
• 1996: Willi Daume, NOC president
• 1997: Smelling pool of broadcasting corporations Leising, German poet
• 2000: Jean Pierre Rampal, French seamist
• 2002: Stephen Jay Gould, US-American paleontologist, geologist and evolution researcher
• 2003: Walter Höllerer, German writer and literature scientist
• 2005: Hanns Ekkehard Plöger, German attorney
• 2005: Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher

of celebration and anniversaries

• national holiday in Cameroon
• catholic holiday of pc. Luzifer

see also: Historical anniversaries, time scale