📰 TODAY IN HISTORY

📆 - May 20

*📜 Events:*

* 1498 — Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovers the sea route to India when he reaches Calicut.

* 1570 — Cartographer Abraham Ortelius publishes Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas.

* 1873 — Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a patent in the United States for copper-riveted jeans.

* 1891 — History of cinema: the first public exhibition of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope prototype.

* 1940 — Holocaust: the first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp in Auschwitz.

* 1983 — First publications of the discovery of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that causes Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.

* 2022 — Russo-Ukrainian War: Russia claims full control of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol after nearly three months of siege.

*🌟 Births:*

* 1799 — Honoré de Balzac, French writer (d. 1850).

* 1806 — John Stuart Mill, British philosopher and economist (d. 1873).

* 1935 — José Mujica, Uruguayan politician (d. 2025).

* 1946 — Cher, American actress and singer.

* 1957 — Lucélia Santos, Brazilian actress.

* 1967 — Marcelo Rossi, Brazilian priest and singer.

* 1981 — Iker Casillas, Spanish footballer.

*🕊 Deaths:*

* 1506 — Christopher Columbus, Italian navigator (b. 1451).

* 1834 — Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, French aristocrat and military officer (b. 1757).

* 1880 — Ana Néri, Brazilian nurse (b. 1814).

* 1896 — Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (b. 1819).

* 2002 — Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist and biologist (b. 1941).

* 2012 — Robin Gibb, British singer and songwriter (b. 1949).

* 2019 — Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver (b. 1949).

*📍 Holidays and Recurring Events:*

*World:*

* World Bee Day

*Brazil:*

* National Pedagogue Day.

* Anniversary of the municipality of Estrela, Rio Grande do Sul

* Anniversary of the municipality of Piedade, São Paulo

* Anniversary of the municipality of Palmas, Tocantins

*Timor-Leste:*

* Independence Day
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