Just one day from my birthday (It's May 20, -Venezuela- quemosion XD), I bring you a little more.

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Since we were little they have taught us certain dates, of great importance that we are never supposed to forget.
Teacher's day, independence, the flag, birth and death of the heroes of the country, celebrations of some saints, etc.*
Usually, within that small group of dates, we only remember those days in which we should not work and / or study.
Great things that might be of interest to us are lost on a day-to-day basis.
History does not only represent the politics and evolution of a country and / or religion, but all those events that have occurred in the past, and that in one way or another, even without realizing it, have an impact on our present.

Something new happens every day, but most things are forgotten or ignored.
Every day there are events to remember.
Next we will take a walk by the most important facts of our history, happened such day as today.

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Some important events, happened today, (years ago).

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EVENTS

1780: in New England a strange phenomenon occurs that later was called "Dark Day of New England".
1850: 150 km east of Havana (Cuba), Venezuelan General Narciso López disembarks in the town of Cárdenas with 600 expeditionaries to drive out the Spaniards and achieve the independence of Cuba. For the first time, it waved what would be the flag of the Republic (that is why the city of Cárdenas is known as the Flag City).
1874: in France a law prohibiting the work of women and children in mines is enacted.
1897: in the United Kingdom, Oscar Wilde leaves the prison of Reading (where he had been confined as a homosexual).
1939: in Madrid, the dictator Francisco Franco - Leader of the national side / rebelled during the Spanish Civil War - presides over the «victory parade» once the war has won.
1962: Marilyn Monroe sings Happy Birthday Mr. President to then President John F. Kennedy.
1979: Freemasonry is legalized in Spain.

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BIRTHS

1925: Malcolm X, anti-racist African-American leader; murdered (f 1965).
1939: Francis Scobee, American astronaut (f 1986); accident on the shuttle Challenger.
1979: Diego Forlán, Uruguayan soccer player.
1979: Andrea Pirlo, Italian soccer player.
1980: Drew Fuller, American actor.
1992: Sam Smith, British singer.
1993: Josef Martínez, Venezuelan footballer.

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DEATHS

1946: Booth Tarkington, American novelist and playwright (# 1869).
1969: Coleman Hawkins, American jazz saxophonist (born in 1904).
1987: Valentín Paz Andrade, Spanish writer and politician (1898).
1994: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American woman, wife of President Kennedy (born in 1929).
1999: Daniel Menco, Chilean student (1976).
2011: Garret FitzGerald, Irish politician (born 1926).

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CELEBRATIONS

Christian feast day:
Calocerus (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Crispin of Viterbo
Dunstan (Roman Catholic Church, Orthodox Church; commemoration, Anglicanism)
Ivo of Kermartin
Joaquina Vedruna de Mas
Maria Bernarda Bütler
Peter Celestine
Pudentiana (Roman Catholic Church, Orthodox Church)
May 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day (Turkey, Northern Cyprus)
Greek Genocide Remembrance Day (Greece)
Hồ Chí Minh's Birthday (Vietnam)
Malcolm X Day (United States of America)
National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (United States)
Hepatitis Testing Day (United States)
Mother's Day (Kyrgyzstan)
France: National Day of Brittany.
Mexico: Day of the Mercadólogo.