THURSDAY, MAY 20, 2010

Today is Thursday, May 20, the 140th day of 2010. There are 225 days left in the year.

526 _ Earthquake kills 250,000 in Antioch, Syria

1310 _ Shoes were made for both right & left feet

1498 _ Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calcutta India

1867 _ British parliament rejects John Stuart Mills law on women suffrage

1874 _ Levi Strauss markets blue jeans with copper rivets, price $13.50 doz

1927 _ Saudi Arabia becomes independent of Great Britain (Treaty of Jedda)

1954 _ Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of Nationalist China

1967 _ 10,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam

1967 _ BBC bans Beatle's ``A Day in the Life" (drug references)

1989 _ China declares martial law in Beijing