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Eliza Doolittle Day and Kathryn Janeway's birthday are on the same day.

#May20 #ElizaDoolittleDay #KathrynJaneway

May 20

This day in history:

• 1983 – Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by UMkhonto we Sizwe explodes on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, killing 19 people and injuring 217 others.
• 2016 – The government of Singapore authorised the controversial execution of convicted murderer Kho Jabing for the murder of a Chinese construction worker despite the international pleas for clemency, notably from Amnesty International and the United Nations.
• 491 – Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed Augusta is able to choose her successor for the Byzantine throne, after Zeno (late emperor) dies of dysentery.
• 1989 – The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Births:

• 1942 – Frew McMillan, South African tennis player
• 1806 – John Stuart Mill, English economist, civil servant, and philosopher (d. 1873)
• 1851 – Emile Berliner, German-American inventor, invented the Gramophone record (d. 1929)

Deaths:

• 1947 – Georgios Siantos, Greek sergeant and politician (b. 1890)
• 1732 – Thomas Boston, Scottish author and educator (b. 1676)
• 2014 – Robyn Denny, English-French painter (b. 1930)

Holidays:

• European Maritime Day (European Council)
• *National Awakening Day (Indonesia), and its related observances:*
• Emancipation Day (Florida)

Random Article of the day:

Hakim Sanaullah Cancer Centre

The first borage to bloom from reseeding itself is white and not blue.

#BloomScrolling #PollinatorPlants #borage #WhiteBorage #WhiteFlowers #May20 #EdibleFlowers #FlowersOfMastodon

Miniature rose blooming with the irises and peonies around it.

#BloomScrolling #roses #RedFlowers #BeardedIris #peonies #YellowFlowers #PinkFlowers #rose #flowers #FlowersOfMastodon #May20

Soon!

#gardening #strawberries #EarliGlowStrawberries #garden #strawberry #GrowYourOwn #May20

Honey bees on the blackberries that are starting to bloom.

#bees #pollinators #blackberries #FlowerWithBee #WhiteFlowers #bee #HoneyBee #May20 #NatchezBlackberries

Bees on the black caps, or black raspberries..

#HoneyBees #pollinators #BlackCaps #BlackRaspberries #bees #berries #May20

May 20

This day in history:

• 1631 – The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.
• 1521 – Ignatius of Loyola is seriously wounded in the Battle of Pampeluna.
• 2012 – At least 27 people are killed and 50 others injured when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes northern Italy.
• 1714 – Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of his cantata for Pentecost, Erschallet, ihr Lieder, BWV 172, at the chapel of Schloss Weimar.

Births:

• 1945 – Vladimiro Montesinos, Peruvian intelligence officer
• 1984 – Patrick Ewing Jr., American basketball player
• 1908 – Francis Raymond Fosberg, American botanist and author (d. 1993)

Deaths:

• 1946 – Jacob Ellehammer, Danish pilot and engineer (b. 1871)
• 1973 – Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945)
• 1956 – Zoltán Halmay, Hungarian swimmer and trainer (b. 1881)

Holidays:

• *National Awakening Day (Indonesia), and its related observances:*
• European Maritime Day (European Council)
• Independence Restoration Day, celebrates the independence of East Timor from Indonesia in 2002.

Random Article of the day:

HMS Sans Pareil (1851)

#wikipedia #May20 #HMSSansPareil(1851)

Mistigram: it’s a little early in the season for my plants, which are growing great guns but still haven’t revealed a #strawberry yet — but if you like, you can follow the lead of AdeptApril’s #ANSIart screen (perhaps set in a slightly warmer climate) and Pick Strawberries today.

https://mistfunk.wordpress.com/2024/05/20/adeptapril-may20/

#20May #AdeptApril #ANSIArt #ANSIart #May20 #strawberry