What happend on 20th May

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21.05
1954

Chiang Kai-shek is selected for another term as President of the Republic of China by the National Assembly

1949

In the United States of America, the AFSA (the predecessor of the NSA) is established.

1941

World War II: Battle of Crete – German paratroops invade Crete.

1940

Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.

1932

Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.

1927

At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, touching down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day).

1927

By the Treaty of Jedda, the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merged to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

1920

Montreal Quebec station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America.

1920

The Weimarer Nationalversammlung, the national assembly of Germany's Weimar Republic, is permanently dissolved.

1918

For the third consecutive year on this date, the U.S. town of Codell, Kansas, is struck by a tornado.