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May 20th, 2008	Event	United States Senator Ted Kennedy is diagnosed with a brain tumor.
May 20th, 2008	Event	Ma Ying-jeou is sworn in as President of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
May 20th, 2008	Death	Hamilton Jordan, former Carter White House Chief of Staff (born in 1944)
May 20th, 2007	Death	Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer (born in 1914)
May 20th, 2005	Death	Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher (born in 1913)
May 20th, 2005	Death	William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General (born in 1918)
May 20th, 2002	Event	The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and 3 years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself was the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976).
May 20th, 2002	Death	Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (born in 1941)
May 20th, 2001	Death	Renato Carosone, Italian musician (born in 1920)
May 20th, 2000	Death	Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist (born in 1922)

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