Daily Calendar for May 20th, 2021

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

320s

• 325: First Council of Nicaea (which standardized how to calculate the date of Easter) likely convened

1500s

• Died 1506: Christopher Columbus (explorer)

1750s

• Born 1759: William Thornton (architect)

1760s

• Born 1768: Dolley Madison (U.S. First Lady)

1810s

• Born 1818: William Fargo (businessman)

1830s

• 1830: D. Hyde patented the fountain pen

1860s

• 1862: Homestead Act signed

1890s

• Born 1890: Allan Nevins (historian)

1900s

• Born 1908: Jimmy Stewart (actor)

1910s

• 1916: The Saturday Evening Post published its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting

1920s

• 1927: Charles Lindbergh began first nonstop solo flight across Atlantic

1930s

• 1930: First airplane catapulted from a dirigible

• Died 1939: Joseph Carr (president of NFL)

1940s

• Born 1944: Joe Cocker (musician)

• Born 1946: Cher (singer & actress)

1960s

• 1961: A 680-pound goliath grouper was caught off Fernandina Beach, Florida

1970s

• Born 1971: Tony Stewart (race car driver)

1980s

• Died 1989: Gilda Radner (actress)

2000s

• Died 2002: Stephen Jay Gould (paleontologist & author)

• 2009: Rare Madagascar teal duck born, Louisville Zoo, Kentucky

2010s

• 2012: Annular eclipse of the Sun

• Died 2012: Robin Gibb (musician; member of the Bee Gees)

• 2014: Up to 20 million honeybees escaped from a tractor-trailer after it overturned on a highway in Newark, Deleware