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May 20, there are 225 days left in this year. 1861<\/strong>– North Carolina voted to secede from the Union.<\/p>\n 1927<\/strong>– Charles Lindbergh began the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight, departing from Long Island aboard the Spirit of Saint Louis<\/em>.<\/p>\n 1932<\/strong>– Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.<\/p>\n 1961<\/strong>– A mob attacked a busload of “freedom riders” in Montgomery, Ala., setting the bus on fire.<\/p>\n 1978<\/strong>– Mavis Hutchinson, 53, became the first woman to run across America. The 3,000-mile trek took her 69 days. She ran an average of 45 miles each day.<\/p>\n 1996<\/strong>– In a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court rejected a Colorado measure banning laws that protect homosexuals from discrimination.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong>– East Timor became the what was then the world’s newest nation. 1768<\/strong>– Dolly Madison, former First Lady<\/p>\n 1799<\/strong>– Honore de Balzac, novelist<\/p>\n 1806<\/strong>– John Stuart Mill, philosopher<\/p>\n 1908<\/strong>– James Stewart, actor<\/p>\n 1915<\/strong>– Moshe Dayan, Israeli military leader<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong>– Cher, Oscar winning actress, singer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TMN STAFF May 20, there are 225 days left in this year. 1506– Christopher Columbus died in Spain. 1861– North Carolina voted to secede from… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6132],"tags":[106,6131],"class_list":["post-26971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-today-in-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26972,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26971\/revisions\/26972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1506<\/strong>– Christopher Columbus died in Spain.<\/p>\n
\nBirthdays<\/strong>
\n1759<\/strong>– William Thornton, architect, designer of the U.S. Capitol Building<\/p>\n