📅 May 20 in the Time Tunnel
What happened on May 20? Travel back in time and find out — then test yourself with the quiz.
🎉 Special days
- 🐝 World Bee Day
⏳ On this day in history
- 1498Vasco da Gama reached India, finding the sea route from Europe to India
- 1570Abraham Ortelius published the first modern atlas
- 1873Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a patent for blue jeans with copper rivets
- 1875Seventeen countries signed the Metre Convention — the basis of the metric system worldwide
- 1927Charles Lindbergh took off from New York on his famous solo flight across the Atlantic
🎂 Born on May 20
- 💿 Emile Berliner (1851) — inventor of the flat record
May 20 quiz
In what year? ⛵ Vasco da Gama reached India, finding the sea route from Europe to India
In what year? 🗺️ Abraham Ortelius published the first modern atlas
In what year? 👖 Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a patent for blue jeans with copper rivets
Which famous person was born on May 20?