Today in History
TODAY is Wednesday, May 20, the 140th day of 2009. There are 225 days left in the year.
Highlights in history on this date:
* 1506 - Christopher Columbus dies in poverty in Spain.
* 1536 - King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour.
* 1770 - Captain James Cook sights and names Fraser Island, Queensland.
* 1867 - Prospector Ernest Henry discovers copper at Cloncurry, Queensland; In London, Queen Victoria lays foundation stone of the Royal Albert Hall.
* 1874 - Levi Strauss markets blue jeans with copper rivets.
* 1886 - Eliza Donnithorne, thought to be the model for Miss Havisham in the Charles Dickens novel Great …
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Publication information:
Article title: Today in History.
Contributors: Not available.
Newspaper title: Daily Examiner (Grafton, Australia).
Publication date: May 20, 2009.
Page number: 10.
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