This Day In History: May 20

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The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered

15 күн бұрын

The Chinese words for “520” sound very like Wo Ai Ni, the Chinese words for “I love you.” And thus May 20 has become an unofficial “Internet Valentine's Day” in China. May 20 has a very different meaning in the tiny unincorporated town of Codell Kansas, where May 20 is “Cyclone day,” commemorating the day on which tornadoes struck the town in three consecutive years from 1916 - 1918. Clearly there are a variety of reasons that May 20 is a date in history that deserves to be remembered.
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@TheHistoryGuyChannel 13 күн бұрын

Some viewers have been confused by the conclusion. The meteor passed on May 20, but was not identified until after it passed, and not reported until a month later on June 20.

@ajax5622 13 күн бұрын

Anyone else worried about the day THG retires. The enthusiasm, the little smile he gives towards the end of each episode, and of course the history itself. That will most definitely not be forgotten

@genxskeptic5816 13 күн бұрын

I’m not too worried about that. He’s only 3 years older than me, but he loves his job WAY more than I like my job. His son has n eye and ear for history as well, so maybe it would be like a Paul Harvey situation when Paul’s son took the helm from time to time. 👍

@petercozzaglio6070 13 күн бұрын

When he does retire, that will be history worth remembering. Just saying.

@natorsi 13 күн бұрын

@@petercozzaglio6070Well said.

@donalddodson7365 11 күн бұрын

Hopefully we will have lots of archival reruns on whatever platform fills KZfaq's niche whenever THG graduates in to history worth remembering.

@imlistening1137 13 күн бұрын

Today, May 20th, was my beautiful grandma’s birthday.

@petuniasevan 13 күн бұрын

11:10 Notice the crotch rivet. Levi Strauss started getting complaints over the placement. Seems that cowboys crouching by the campfire were suddenly being overwarmed in a very delicate part of their anatomy. The crotch rivets were discontinued.

@lp-xl9ld 13 күн бұрын

I'd be willing to bet that a good many significant events occurred on every day of the year...only a few of which are generally remembered. Thanks for keeping track of these and letting the rest of us in on it.

@jackzimmer6553 13 күн бұрын

My Mom was born on this day in 1931. Happy Birthday and RIP!

@gsdalpha1358 13 күн бұрын

My mom was born a day later that same year. RIP to your Mom and mine!

@jackzimmer6553 12 күн бұрын

Amen to that!!

@triadmad 13 күн бұрын

It's an important date, only within my immediate family. My grandfather was born on this date in 1893.

@tracytrawick322 13 күн бұрын

1893, in the scheme of time, it's not that far from my birth year, 1958. I became a mere mortal when they cut on my back and 2 total knee jobs. '97-03 was a bad run. They're so old we're just changing the tires (pads) instead of buying new wheels! Growing old, validation, it's not for sissies and you reap what you sew. Thx THG, great job, as is typical!

@roberthevern6169 13 күн бұрын

The many different stories THG presents are always varied, and always very enlightening! Thanks, THG!

@darwindemartelaere3195 13 күн бұрын

I grewup outside the little town of Miltona MN, which a large part of the town was destroyed by a tornado in 1970. For years after that, Miltona celebrated Tornado Days.

@darthstanley166 13 күн бұрын

My wife and I were married 35 years ago today!

@TheHistoryGuyChannel 13 күн бұрын

Happy Anniversary!

@thefatbeanie 12 күн бұрын

Congrats! 7th for us!

@wenkaywc 14 күн бұрын

Wow! May 20th, quite the day!

@mikestaples3734 13 күн бұрын

As Walter Cronkite used to say, "Monday, May 20th, 2024: a day like all days, filled with the events that alter and illuminate our times; but You Are There!"

@robertjensen1438 14 күн бұрын

I tossed a yield sign into a tornado once. Guess I was throwing caution to the wind. Did you hear about the tornado at the cheese factory? Da-brie was everywhere.

$@jamesfracasse8178$

@jamesfracasse8178 13 күн бұрын

Bravo brother with those wing dingers of jokes. 1:19

@nelsonbergman7706 13 күн бұрын

Groan! Quite the punster. 🤪

@Ronin4614 13 күн бұрын

Long time Sub here, & I’m glad I watched this video. My wife and I were married in ‘69 and today is her birthday 🎂. Hearing about the tornados, Queens train wreck, and such on this day now click things right into place. Thanks for the insight 😉👍

@user-oh2hs6jh5x 13 күн бұрын

That's a lot of years dude. Congratulations. We'll have our 48th next month.

@AV5Z4 13 күн бұрын

Congratulations on your long marriage 👍🏾and happy birthday to your wife 🎊 you have been married for almost as long as I have been alive 😂 I hope nothing but the best for you two 👍🏾👍🏾

@garylawson5381 13 күн бұрын

Happy Birthday and Happy Anniversary!

@thereissomecoolstuff 13 күн бұрын

Love the history day by the history bow tie.

@richardmourdock2719 13 күн бұрын

If the May 20th meteorite had struck earth, it would have left a mark, but nothing compared to the Sudbury Impact or Chicxulub. Another type of history that deserves to be remembered.

@lancerevell5979 13 күн бұрын

It would have ruined someone's day!

@1pcfred 13 күн бұрын

Yeah the Chicxulub object is estimated to be over a thousand times larger in diameter. Things don't scale linearly in mass or volume either.

@waltonwarrior7428 13 күн бұрын

Did you catch that he said June 20 and not May 20?

@petuniasevan 13 күн бұрын

@@waltonwarrior7428 That was the day that the astronomers announced its flyby. May 20 was the day it would have just missed us by 90k miles.

@Steaphany 13 күн бұрын

You need to compile a collection of Day in History for every day of the year

@TheHistoryGuyChannel 13 күн бұрын

The plan right now is two a month, so it will take me a little over 15 years…

@ricksgamemisc10 13 күн бұрын

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel So ... the final video will be talking about the day that you finish, with the end of the video announcing that on that day, you finished the video project :)

@seatedliberty 13 күн бұрын

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel We'll wait.

@BobBrandon 13 күн бұрын

Happy Meck Dec Day. May 20th 1775 Mecklenburg County NC declared independence from England over a year before the rest of the country. The date is memorialized on the NC state flag.

@billwendell6886 13 күн бұрын

Huzzah from Wake Co

@jmantmull 13 күн бұрын

Sounds like something a meck would say..lol

@IOSARBX 14 күн бұрын

The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered, I really liked this video! I subscribed too!

@IOSARBX 14 күн бұрын

The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered, You're the best! I subscribed because I love your content!

@aladd646 13 күн бұрын

We were married on May 20th 1972. A day to be remembered 😅

@carolpfaff7784 13 күн бұрын

Hi. My husband and I were married on this day 45 years ago. Happy anniversary!

@TheHistoryGuyChannel 13 күн бұрын

Happy Anniversary!

@IanSinclair77 13 күн бұрын

It's history..that deserves to be remembered.

@mattiemathis9549 13 күн бұрын

Hope you remember it as a happy day. 😂 Congratulations on 52 years of marriage. That is truly special. 💕

@meedwards5 13 күн бұрын

Congratulations and happy anniversary!🎉

@Zebred2001 13 күн бұрын

Newfoundland was actually a self-governing British colony in 1932 and not yet part of Canada.

@sevenstars004 13 күн бұрын

I just went on Google Earth to check out Codell, Kansas. They have an interesting Cyclone Day Memorial. What I found very interesting was the street view. I haven't come across a street view where it was actively raining but it certainly is on the street view there. When I got to 407 Codell St. (it comes up as Plainville, Kansas) it appears that there may be a tornado in the distance, just to the left of center. If you "move" up and down Codell St., it was definitely imaged during a storm.

@casketeir 3 күн бұрын

My Granddaughter and I were born on this day!

@larryjohnson7591 13 күн бұрын

I love the specific days that have history. I like History and these dates help jog some of my memories. Thank You.

@Mike-DuBose 14 күн бұрын

Greetings from Thailand!

@padre2275 13 күн бұрын

You neglected to mention the important event to have taken place on May 20th: It's my birthday!

@orbyfan 13 күн бұрын

On May 20, 1975, the Buffalo Sabres reduced the Philadelphia Flyers' lead in the Stanley Cup finals to 2 games to 1 with a 5-4 overtime win at War Memorial Auditorium in Buffalo in a game that started with a bat flying around in the arena and ended with the players skating around after every stoppage in play in attempts to get rid of the fog clouding the ice, the result of playing hockey in 80+ F. temperatures. Philadelphia goalie Bernie Parent said that he lost Rene Robert's winning shot in the fog at 18:56 of overtime. On May 20, 1979, the Winnipeg Jets defeated the Edmonton Oilers 7-3 at Winnipeg Arena to win the Avco World Trophy finals 4 games to 2 in the last game ever played in the 7-year history of the World Hockey Association. Dave Semenko of the Oilers, best known for his fighting ability, scored the WHA's last goal.

@janhammer4852 13 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@TheHistoryGuyChannel 13 күн бұрын

Thank you!

@AV5Z4 13 күн бұрын

This is the best thing I’ve subscribed to on KZfaq.

@ashergoney 13 күн бұрын

Guy.. Can Go On Do Your Thing..

@MegaDuckmonster 13 күн бұрын

Thanks so much for the (coincidental) Birthday Video!

@simonolsen9995 13 күн бұрын

Same here! Many happy returns.

@TheHistoryGuyChannel 13 күн бұрын

Happy birthday!

@MegaDuckmonster 13 күн бұрын

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Much Love & God bless! Thank you all:)

@deborahdanhauer8525 13 күн бұрын

Happy Birthday!!❤️🤗🐝🎂🌟👍

@ricksaint2000 13 күн бұрын

Thank you History Guy

@Baelthaazar 13 күн бұрын

Thanks History Guy. This was a great birthday present... Er... Presentation.

@TheHistoryGuyChannel 13 күн бұрын

Happy birthday!

@tincanboat 12 күн бұрын

Always entertaining and interesting. THANK YOU for sharing.😁

@steveshoemaker6347 13 күн бұрын

ON MAY 20 I THANK THG🎀 for all of his outstanding History video's 👍 Old F-4 Phantom ll fighter jet pilot Shoe🇺🇸

@MeanderingSnail 13 күн бұрын

Greetings! Long time listener, first time commenter; I love all of your videos, especially the "This Day in History" vids. I'm not sure if you take requests, but if so, I'd love to see a This Day in History for January 13th. It happens to be my birthday, I took my first breath in 1968 btw. Thanks very much!

@basilbcf 12 күн бұрын

Kind of interesting about the "I love you" connection and your use of the hearts. As it happens, May 20th is my and my wife's anniversary (49 years)

@shawnr771 12 күн бұрын

I lived in Kansas City Missouri in the 1970s not far from the path of the Ruskin Heights tornado. There was a former neighborhood of just streets and driveways where all the houses had been bulldozed. One of the last buildings hit by the tornado was Ruskin High School. Several students were killed and many injured. In the lobby of the school were photos of the damage. In one of the photos was the remnants of the name of the school. The only letters left on the building were RUIN. The school district took us over when we were in 2nd or 3rd grade to show us why tornado drills were necessary. Nobody in that area messed around when the watches were announced.

@BasicDrumming 13 күн бұрын

I appreciate you and thank you for making content.

@RetiredSailor60 13 күн бұрын

Good Monday morning History Guy and everyone watching. My grandfather knew Charles Lindbergh in the 1930s. Lindbergh helped my grandfather to get into the aviation industry.

@gmach13 13 күн бұрын

Thank You, History Guy.

@J3scribe 13 күн бұрын

That was an excellent episode!

@kellybasham3113 13 күн бұрын

Love your videos

@ThomasEJohnson 13 күн бұрын

Thanks for today’s lesson buddy!

@arthurschipper8906 12 күн бұрын

Mr. History guy. Could you do one of these for September 19 and November 19? It will more than make up for what they got short changed on in the public school

@user-oh2hs6jh5x 14 күн бұрын

Monday. Welcome to class. You can rest later.

@bronwynecg 14 күн бұрын

Good morning! 👋🏽 😊

@BigFloofinGiant81 13 күн бұрын

Ugh, what a momonday, thanks for making it brighter history guy.

@revel8r413 13 күн бұрын

The fishbowl with the fish still swimming after the tornado reminds me of a Dr. Seuss story. Maybe the cat in the hat?

@phlogistanjones2722 13 күн бұрын

Thanks Lance! Peaceful Skies.

@mikecollins8241 8 күн бұрын

My birthday, as well as Dolly Parton's 😊

@Kw1161 13 күн бұрын

Thanks History Guy for another entertaining and enlightening video. I especially enjoyed the deadpan response to the reporter’s question about the astroid the size of a US Navy destroyer plowing into the earth (at serval thousands of mile per hour.). …priceless …😂😂😂…”a big crater….”😂! Have a great day!

@paulbennett4548 13 күн бұрын

" Would you believe.........Missed it by That much!

@normanmimsiii7944 10 күн бұрын

I was looking for a pirate story in all of this...did I miss it? After all, a pirate story always makes it better...😊

@alitlweird 13 күн бұрын

5:32 “and one not well understood even in his lifetim.” an understatement of there ever was one.

@adamcravets5408 13 күн бұрын

Never seen this channel before. Today (May 20) is my birthday. It’s in my feed. Here I thought I was watching KZfaq. It turns out KZfaq is watching me. Creepy! 😮

@TheCosmicGuy0111 13 күн бұрын

Nice

@constipatedinsincity4424 14 күн бұрын

BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN NATURALLY

@cyan1616 13 күн бұрын

Did you ever live or work in Chicago? When I stumbled on your channel several years ago I thought you were someone from a WTTW program, or maybe someone I once knew. Maybe a coffee house in Wicker Park I used to work at in the early 90's? lol I love your channel, and swear I know you from somewhere ☺

@TheHistoryGuyChannel 13 күн бұрын

No, sorry. Wasn’t me. I live in Illinois, but not near Chicago.

@thefrecklepuny 13 күн бұрын

Well, that was an enjoyable look at today's date from the past.

@garypedigogaeu5787 13 күн бұрын

You forgot ( unintentional I’m sure ) that the famous Phyllis E. Schwabacher NE Pedigo was born on may 20 1946.

@joshuanissen8803 13 күн бұрын

This day in history the Dali was REFLOATED in the port of Baltimore and taken to dock. Clearing the channel.

@riffraff9000 12 күн бұрын

The "cancelled check from Hickman Hills" was more likely from "Hickman Mills." There is no place named "Hickman Hills" near Kansas City, fyi.

@bennybenitez2461 8 күн бұрын

May 20th 2003 the day that I commenced operation of my company 21 years ago and still going.

@jeffbangkok 13 күн бұрын

Last night on May 20 I was outside looking at the dark angry sky. Tornados are rare in Thailand but I've seen the damage of many in Ohio.

@paulcunningham2859 13 күн бұрын

Well you left out my birthday!

@andrewyoung2796 13 күн бұрын

My head is spinning from all this info

@youtubeurevil 13 күн бұрын

Thanks today is my Birthday! (i knew it was a special day)

@TheHistoryGuyChannel 13 күн бұрын

Happy birthday!

@colleencrouch4346 13 күн бұрын

Looking forward to next Monday, May 27, 1922 is the birthdate of Christopher Lee. Fellow horror film icon, Vincent Price, was born on May 27, 1911. And there must have been something about this time of year, as Lee’s friend & oft screen nemesis, Peter Cushing, was born just one day earlier, on May 26, 1913

@haydenunsell 13 күн бұрын

don’t forget the last EF5 tornado on record, the moore 2013 tornado and the heavily scrutinized and disputed el reno tornado the very next day on may 21st

@romad357 13 күн бұрын

The first two tornadoes were just "ranging shots", the third was "fired for effect". At King Edward VII's funeral, former President Theodore Roosevelt represented these United States.

@miguelwpratt 13 күн бұрын

Please do a video on Josehp Priestley and the 1791 UK riot

@rogergoodman8665 13 күн бұрын

The giant asteroid that went by us in 1993 was only one of the many times that all life on the planet narrowly escaped annihilation duriing the 20th century and most of us were basically oblivious to our own possible doom.

@saberwolf.1781 13 күн бұрын

Would it be possible for the history guy to tell the story of the Battle of Fort Tabarsi 1848-1849¿

@paladinmr7626 13 күн бұрын

My birthday!

@TheFish711 13 күн бұрын

No mention do the battle of Tukayyid? The most important battle in all of the clan invasion!

@constipatedinsincity4424 14 күн бұрын

I love you too History Guy 🤓

@Apexseals87 13 күн бұрын

ottumwa iowa....home to radar o'reilly lol.

@orbyfan 13 күн бұрын

As well as my maternal grandmother.

@MissTryALot 13 күн бұрын

So cute ❤

@davidcrawford219 13 күн бұрын

May 20 21 Hirohito was in Scotland as a Royal pain in the Edinburgh.

@CheshireTomcat68 13 күн бұрын

6:50 because don't all good stories involve pilots!?!

@bonniearmstrong6564 10 күн бұрын

This is my mother’s birthday, she would have turned one hundred on this day on 2024.

@TheBrohomie 13 күн бұрын

Do may 28th! feel free to put my birthday there too ;)

@user-oh2hs6jh5x 13 күн бұрын

"NORM"

@toughenupfluffy7294 13 күн бұрын

Sorry to be THAT guy, but tornadoes form over land and are smaller in size, whereas cyclones form over warm ocean waters and are much larger. A cyclone is more comparable to a hurricane than to a tornado.

@DavidBenner-cy4zl 13 күн бұрын

Mandarin. The "official" language of China. There are actually several dialects in China.

@naponroy 13 күн бұрын

Way more than several, especially if you count the unsupported local one specific to certain cities and whatnot. If Ping equals Bing, does Pong equal Bong?

@DavidBenner-cy4zl 13 күн бұрын

@naponroy I used to speak a few East Asian languages in my youth. I was born, educated and raised there.

@canonwright8397 13 күн бұрын

My only regret is that Star Wars missed this date by about 16 days. =].

@JesseOaks-ef9xn 13 күн бұрын

I wonder if you have done a story about the river pirates near St Louis and what happened to them during the New Madrid earthquake.

@1pcfred 13 күн бұрын

The object credited with ending the dinosaurs was 6 miles in diameter. You don't want to get struck by anything 30 feet wide but let's put things in some perspective.

@independentthinker8930 12 күн бұрын

2011 we had 65 tonados in one day here in Alabama, 252 confirmed dead

@danielkeene1623 13 күн бұрын

What about Mt. St. Helens?

@TM-ev2tc 13 күн бұрын

"The Heaven Shaker" the Japanese crewed torpedoes and suicide crafts made by the Japanese at the end of WW2. It might make a good video.

@willswalkingwest7267 13 күн бұрын

May 20, 1959, I was born!

@bob_._. 13 күн бұрын

So, nothing about pirates?

@joeyhardin1288 10 күн бұрын

Also, 1959, the day I was born!

@doriWyo 13 күн бұрын

Ederson??

@Thomas-dz4eg 13 күн бұрын

my birthday!

@deborahdanhauer8525 13 күн бұрын

Happy Birthday!!❤️🤗🐝🎂🌟👍

@TheHistoryGuyChannel 13 күн бұрын

Happy Birthday!

@fredknox2781 13 күн бұрын

No pirates??

@fredhannum4015 13 күн бұрын

520 !

@jefffoster912 13 күн бұрын

I'm confused. You initially said (@12:39) that on June 20th 1993 for the space rock nearly hitting us. So the how could people have known about it on May 20th, a whole month earlier, if they didn't know about it until after it had already missed earth?

@TheHistoryGuyChannel 13 күн бұрын

It passed on May 20. Astronomers didn’t see it until it had passed, and it wasn’t reported until a month later.