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A bit of May 20th history…
1310 - Shoes were made for both the right and left feet (pictured)
1498 - Vasco da Gama arrives at Calicut, India becoming 1st European to reach India by sea
1609 - Shakespeare’s Sonnets are 1st published in London
1862 - President Lincoln signs into law the Homestead Act to provide cheap land for the settlement of the American West
1927 - Lindbergh takes off from NY to cross the Atlantic for Paris - 1st non-stop flight
1932 - Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland to become 1st woman to fly solo and non-stop across Atlantic
May 20, 2021 at 05:00AM