Born on 20 May 2014

At A Glance

20 May 2014 at a glance

Day of the week

20 May 2014 was a Tuesday.

Billboard Hot 100 No. 1

The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “All of Me” by John Legend.

Top Film of 2014

The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2014 was Transformers: Age of Extinction.

Top-Rated TV Show

“Sunday Night Football” (NBC) was No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings for the 2014–15 season.

Star sign

The star sign for 20 May is Taurus.

Chinese zodiac

In the Chinese zodiac, 20 May 2014 fell in the Year of the Horse.

Birthstone

The birthstone for May is Emerald.

Moon phase

The moon phase on 20 May 2014 was Waning Gibbous.

On this day: 20 May

• 1996 Civil rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.
• 2002 The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and three years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself is the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976).
• 2011 Mamata Banerjee is sworn in as the Chief Minister of West Bengal, the first woman to hold this post.
• 2019 The International System of Units (SI): The base units are redefined, making the international prototype of the kilogram obsolete.
• 2022 Russo-Ukrainian war: Russia claims full control of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol after a nearly three-month siege.

Famous people born on May 20

• Enes Kanter Freedom, Turkish basketball player (born 1992)
• Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, English journalist and author (born 1964)
• Cher, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (born 1946)
• Timothy Olyphant, American actor and producer (born 1968)

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