FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2016

Today is Friday, May 20, the 142nd day of 2016. There are 224 days left in the year.

1293 — Earthquake strikes Kamakura Japan, 30,000 killed

1303 — Treaty of Paris restores Gascony to British in Hundred Years War

1310 — Shoes were made for both right & left feet

1347 — Rienzo calls Rome for people’s tribunal

1495 — French King Charles VIII leaves Naples

1498 — Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calcutta India

1501 — Joao da Nova Castell discovers Ascension Islands

1521 — Ignatius Loyola seriously wounded by a cannon ball

1524 — Duke of Albany leaves Scotland

1571 — Venice, Spain & Pope Pius form anti-Turkish Saint League