On May 20, 1961, a white mob attacked a busload of "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery, Ala., prompting the federal government to send in United States marshals to restore order.
On May 20, 1908, James Stewart, the American movie actor, was born. Following his death on July 2, 1997, his obituary appeared in The Times.
On This Date
| 1861 | North Carolina voted to secede from the Union. |
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| 1861 | The capital of the Confederacy was moved from Montgomery, Ala., to Richmond, Va. |
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| 1902 | The United States ended its occupation of Cuba. |
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| 1927 | Charles Lindbergh took off for Paris from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. |
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| 1932 | Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland for Ireland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. |
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| 1939 | Regular trans-Atlantic air service began as a Pan American Airways plane took off from Port Washington, N.Y., bound for Europe. |
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| 1969 | U.S. and South Vietnamese forces captured Apbia Mountain, referred to as Hamburger Hill by the Americans, following one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War. |
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| 1971 | The album "What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye was released. |
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| 1989 | Comedian Gilda Radner died of cancer at age 42. |
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| 1993 | The final first-run episode of "Cheers" aired on NBC. |
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| 1995 | President Bill Clinton announced that the two-block stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House would be permanently closed to traffic as a security measure. |
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| 1996 | The Supreme Court struck down a Colorado measure banning laws that protect homosexuals from discrimination. |
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| 2002 | East Timor became an independent nation. |
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| 2006 | The FBI searched the Capitol Hill office of Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., as part of a bribery investigation. (Jefferson was convicted in 2009 and sentenced to 13 years in prison. He is free on appeal.) |
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| 2006 | San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds tied Babe Ruth for second place on the career list with his 714th home run. |
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| 2008 | Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor. (He died in 2009.) |
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| 2009 | A commission published a damning report on decades of rapes, humiliation and beatings at Catholic Church-run reform schools in Ireland. |
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| 2009 | Suspended NFL star Michael Vick was released after 19 months in prison for running a dogfighting ring. |
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| 2010 | Under pressure following security lapses, retired Navy Adm. Dennis Blair resigned as national intelligence director. |
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Current Birthdays
Singer-actress Cher turns 65 years old years old today.
AP Photo/Peter KramerActor Matt Czuchry ("The Good Wife") turns 34 years old today.
AP Photo/Evan Agostini
| 1927 | Bud Grant, Hall of Fame football coach, turns 84 |
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| 1944 | Joe Cocker, Rock singer, turns 67 |
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| 1949 | Dave Thomas, Actor, comedian (SCTV), turns 62 |
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| 1951 | Michael Crapo, U.S. senator, R-Idaho, turns 60 |
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| 1954 | David Paterson, Former governor of New York, turns 57 |
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| 1958 | Ron Reagan, Son of former President Ronald Reagan, turns 53 |
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| 1959 | Bronson Pinchot, Actor, turns 52 |
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| 1961 | Nick Heyward, Rock singer (Haircut 100), turns 50 |
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| 1963 | David Wells, Baseball player, turns 48 |
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| 1966 | Mindy Cohn, Actress ("The Facts of Life"), turns 45 |
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| 1968 | Timothy Olyphant, Actor ("Deadwood"), turns 43 |
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| 1972 | Busta Rhymes, Rapper, turns 39 |
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Historic Birthdays
| 81 | Dolley Madison 5/20/1768 - 7/12/1849
American wife of President James Madison |
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| 51 | Honore de Balzac 5/20/1799 - 8/18/1850
French novelist and short-story writer |
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| 66 | John Stuart Mill 5/20/1806 - 5/8/1873
English philosopher |
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| 63 | William George Fargo 5/20/1818 - 8/3/1881
American businessman; co-founded Wells, Fargo & Company |
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| 48 | Madeline Breckinridge 5/20/1872 - 11/25/1920
American social reformer |
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| 85 | John Jacob Astor 5/20/1886 - 7/19/1971
English journalist and chief proprietor of The London Times (1922-66) |
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| 82 | Earl Browder 5/20/1891 - 6/27/1973
American Communist Party leader (1930-44) |
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| 94 | Adela Rogers Saint Johns 5/20/1894 - 8/10/1988
American journalist, novelist and screenwriter |
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| 42 | R. J. Mitchell 5/20/1895 - 6/11/1937
English aircraft designer; developed the Spitfire fighter plane |
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| 72 | John Marshall Harlan 5/20/1899 - 12/29/1971
American Supreme Court justice (1955-71) |
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| 66 | Moshe Dayan 5/20/1915 - 10/16/1981
Israeli soldier and statesman |
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