This Day in History: May 20th

Here are ten historical events that took place on May 20th:

1. 1873: Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a patent for blue jeans with copper rivets, marking the birth of the iconic Levi’s jeans.
2. 1927: Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on his solo transatlantic flight to Paris, becoming the first person to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean.
3. 1932: Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland on her solo transatlantic flight, becoming the first woman to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic.
4. 1940: The first prisoners arrive at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
5. 1983: The discovery of the HIV virus as the cause of AIDS is published in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier and his team at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.
6. 1990: The Hubble Space Telescope captures its first images from space.
7. 2002: East Timor officially becomes an independent nation, ending over two decades of Indonesian occupation.
8. 2013: A tornado strikes Moore, Oklahoma, causing widespread devastation and resulting in 24 fatalities.
9. 2019: The International Court of Justice orders Pakistan to review the death sentence of Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav, who was convicted of espionage by a Pakistani military court.
10. 2020: NASA and SpaceX successfully launch the Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken to the International Space Station, marking the first crewed orbital spaceflight launched from U.S. soil since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011.

These events span various areas of history, from politics and diplomacy to culture and technology.

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