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May 20: Vasco da Gama, Shakespeare and My Fair Lady

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May 20, 2020

Historical Events

1498  Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calicut, India becoming the first European to reach India by sea

1609  Shakespeare's Sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by publisher Thomas Thorpe

1862  US President Abraham Lincoln signs into law the Homestead Act to provide cheap land for the settlement of the American West (80 million acres by 1900)

1864  Spotsylvania campaign in US Civil War ends after 10,920 killed or injured

1927  At 7:40 AM, Charles Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross the Atlantic for Paris, aboard Spirit of St Louis (1st non-stop flight)

1927  Saudi Arabia becomes independent of Great Britain in the Treaty of Jeddah

1990  Hubble Space Telescope sends its 1st photographs from space

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May 20: My Fair Lady's Special Day


This was a day to remember for Eliza Doolittle, the 'My Fair Lady' of the stage and film musical that won and broke hearts.
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