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May 20th ....
526 – An earthquake kills about 300,000 people in Syria and Antiochia.
685 – The Battle of Dunnichen or Nechtansmere is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated.
1609 – Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe....
1818 – Birth of William Fargo, American pioneer expressman, co-founder of Wells, Fargo & Co.
Emancipation Day (Florida)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Cuba from the United States in 1902.
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