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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, 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, 1996	Event	Gay 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.
May 20th, 1995	Event	In a second referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a slight majority the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada.
May 20th, 1990	Event	The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.
May 20th, 1989	Event	The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
May 20th, 1985	Event	Radio Marti, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
May 20th, 1984	Event	The first line of the Miami Metrorail in Miami, Florida opens.
May 20th, 1983	Event	First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo individually.

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