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May 20, there are 225 days left in this year.
1506– Christopher Columbus died in Spain.
1861– North Carolina voted to secede from the Union.
1927– Charles Lindbergh began the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight, departing from Long Island aboard the Spirit of Saint Louis.
1932– Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
1961– A mob attacked a busload of “freedom riders” in Montgomery, Ala., setting the bus on fire.
1978– Mavis Hutchinson, 53, became the first woman to run across America. The 3,000-mile trek took her 69 days. She ran an average of 45 miles each day.
1996– In a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court rejected a Colorado measure banning laws that protect homosexuals from discrimination.
2002– East Timor became the what was then the world’s newest nation.
Birthdays
1759– William Thornton, architect, designer of the U.S. Capitol Building
1768– Dolly Madison, former First Lady
1799– Honore de Balzac, novelist
1806– John Stuart Mill, philosopher
1908– James Stewart, actor
1915– Moshe Dayan, Israeli military leader
1946– Cher, Oscar winning actress, singer