TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2014

Today is Tuesday, May 20, the 140th day of 2015. There are 225 days left in the year.

526 ― Earthquake kills 250,000 in Antioch, Syria

1310 ― Shoes were made for both right and left feet

1498 ― Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calcutta, India

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

1900 ― Second modern Olympic Games opens in Paris, France (lasted five months)

1926 ― Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies

1927 ― At 7:40 a.m., Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic for Paris

1940 ― Igor Sikorsky unveils his helicopter invention

1944 ― U.S. Communist Party dissolves

1991 ― Chicago Bull Michael Jordan, named NBA's MVP