On May 20th
- Events
- 1939 Pan Am began transatlantic passenger & air mail service.
- 1961 White mob attacks `Freedom Riders' in Montgomery - Alabama.
- Births
- 1913 William Hewlett, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, co-founder of the Hewlett-Packard Company (d. 2001).
- 1958 Jane Wiedlin, (GoGos).
- Deaths
- 2018 Patricia Morison, American stage, television and film actress, dies at home in West Hollywood at 103 years old.
- 1989 Gilda Radner, American actress and comedian, who was one of the seven original cast members for the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL).
- Events
- 1902 US ends occupation of Cuba.
- 1959 Ford wins battle with Chrysler to call its new car "Falcon".
- Births
- 1919 George Gobel, Comedian.
- 1822 Frédéric Passy, in Paris France, French economist, pacifist, first shared Nobel Peace laureate (1901) (d. 1912).
- Deaths
- 2012 Robin Gibb, British singer, songwriter and record producer, who gained worldwide fame as a member of the pop group the Bee Gees with older brother Barry and fraternal twin brother Maurice, dies of kidney failure at 62.
- 2012 Robin Gibb, was a British singer, songwriter and record producer, who gained worldwide fame as a member of the pop group the Bee Gees with older brother Barry and fraternal twin brother Maurice. He died of kidney failure at the age of 62.
- Events
- 1985 US began broadcasts to Cuba on Radio Marti.
- 1985 FBI arrests John A Walker Jr - convicted of spying for USSR.
- Births
- 1894 Adela Rogers St. Johns, journalist, author.
- 1933 Constance Towers.
- Deaths
- 1989 Gilda Radner, American actress and comedian, who was one of the seven original cast members for the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL).
- 2012 Robin Gibb, British singer, songwriter and record producer, who gained worldwide fame as a member of the pop group the Bee Gees with older brother Barry and fraternal twin brother Maurice, dies of kidney failure at 62.
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