Fw: On This Day in History (May 20): Vasco da Gama Reaches India, Nine Kings in a Room and Eliza Doolittle Day
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On This Day in History
May 20
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? Portuguese explorer arrives in Calicut, India, becoming the first European to reach India by sea
? 's Sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by publisher Thomas Thorpe
? US President signs into law the Homestead Act to provide cheap land for the settlement of the American West (80 million acres by 1900)
| Nine sovereigns of Europe meet at the funeral of Edward VII |
? Funeral for Britain's King is held in Westminster Abbey, attended by one of the ?
? At 7:40 AM, takes off from New York to cross the Atlantic for Paris aboard the Spirit of St. Louis in the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight
1927 Treaty of Jeddah is signed between the United Kingdom and , recognizing the independence of the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd, the forerunner of ?
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This was a day to remember for Eliza Doolittle, the 'My Fair Lady' of the stage and film musical that won and broke hearts.
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