Date
Tue 20 May 2025
1506 - In Spain, Christopher Columbus died in poverty.
1520 - Hernando Cortez defeated Spanish troops that had been sent to punish him in Mexico.
1690 - England passed the Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II.
1674 - John Sobieski became Poland’s first King.
1774 - Britain's Parliament passed the Coercive Acts to punish the American colonists for their increasingly anti-British behaviour
1784 - The Peace of Versailles ended a war between France, England, and Holland.
1873 - Levi Strauss began marketing blue jeans with copper rivets.
1902 - The U.S. military occupation of Cuba ended.
1902 - Cuba gained its independence from Spain.
1932 - Amelia Earhart took off from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, on what would become the first transatlantic solo flight by a woman.
1939 - The first regular air-passenger service across the Atlantic Ocean began with the take-off of the "Yankee Clipper" from Port Washington, New York.
1941 - Germany invaded Crete by air.
1942 - Japan completed the conquest of Burma.
1977 - The original Orient Express began its last journey from Paris to Istanbul.
1990 - The Hubble Space Telescope sent back its first photographs.
1520 - Hernando Cortez defeated Spanish troops that had been sent to punish him in Mexico.
1690 - England passed the Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II.
1674 - John Sobieski became Poland’s first King.
1774 - Britain's Parliament passed the Coercive Acts to punish the American colonists for their increasingly anti-British behaviour
1784 - The Peace of Versailles ended a war between France, England, and Holland.
1873 - Levi Strauss began marketing blue jeans with copper rivets.
1902 - The U.S. military occupation of Cuba ended.
1902 - Cuba gained its independence from Spain.
1932 - Amelia Earhart took off from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, on what would become the first transatlantic solo flight by a woman.
1939 - The first regular air-passenger service across the Atlantic Ocean began with the take-off of the "Yankee Clipper" from Port Washington, New York.
1941 - Germany invaded Crete by air.
1942 - Japan completed the conquest of Burma.
1977 - The original Orient Express began its last journey from Paris to Istanbul.
1990 - The Hubble Space Telescope sent back its first photographs.