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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_20" title="May 20">May 20</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_of_Remembrance_(Cambodia)" title="National Day of Remembrance (Cambodia)">National Day of Remembrance</a></b> in Cambodia (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975" title="1975">1975</a>); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budi_Utomo" title="Budi Utomo">National Awakening Day</a></b> in Indonesia (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1908" title="1908">1908</a>); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Day" title="Victoria Day">Victoria Day</a></b> in Canada (2024)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/794" title="794">794</a> – According to the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle" title="Anglo-Saxon Chronicle">Anglo-Saxon Chronicle</a></i>, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelberht_II_of_East_Anglia" title="Æthelberht II of East Anglia">King Æthelberht II</a></b> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_East_Anglia" title="Kingdom of East Anglia">East Anglia</a> was beheaded on the orders of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offa_of_Mercia" title="Offa of Mercia">Offa of Mercia</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1714" title="1714">1714</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach" title="Johann Sebastian Bach">Johann Sebastian Bach</a> directed the first performance of his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentecost" title="Pentecost">Pentecost</a> cantata.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1927" title="1927">1927</a> – With the signing of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Jeddah_(1927)" title="Treaty of Jeddah (1927)">Treaty of Jeddah</a>, the United Kingdom recognized the sovereignty of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Saud" title="Ibn Saud">Ibn Saud</a></b> over <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hejaz" title="Hejaz">Hejaz</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najd" title="Najd">Nejd</a>, which later merged to become Saudi Arabia.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1941" title="1941">1941</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>: German <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paratrooper" title="Paratrooper">paratroopers</a> began the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Heraklion" title="Battle of Heraklion">Battle of Heraklion</a></b> on the island of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete" title="Crete">Crete</a>, capturing the airfield and port in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraklion" title="Heraklion">Heraklion</a> ten days later.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fargo" title="William Fargo">William Fargo</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1818); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Guillaume-Schack" title="Gertrude Guillaume-Schack">Gertrude Guillaume-Schack</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1903); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizamuddin_Asir_Adrawi" title="Nizamuddin Asir Adrawi">Nizamuddin Asir Adrawi</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2021)</p>
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