This Day in History May 20

May 20

1639 Dorchester MA, forms 1st school funded by local taxes
1775 Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence is signed in Charlotte, NC
1861 Kentucky proclaims its neutrality in Civil War
1861 North Carolina becomes 11th & last state to secede from Union
1862 Homestead Act provides cheap land for settlement of the West
1864 Battle at Ware Bottom Church VA
1864 Spotsylvania-campaign ends
1874 Levi Strauss markets blue jeans with copper rivets, price $13.50 doz
1875 International Bureau of Weights & Measures established by treaty
1892 George Sampson patents clothes dryer
1899 1st traffic ticket in the US: New York City taxi driver Jacob German was arrested for speeding
while driving 12 miles per hour on Lexington Street
1902 US military occupation of Cuba (since Jan 1, 1899) ends
1916 The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting
1918 1st electrically propelled warship (the New Mexico)
1927 At 7:40 AM, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic for Paris
1932 Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic
1939 Pan Am begins regular transatlantic airmail and passenger service
1941 Germany invades Crete
1943 French, British & US victory parade in Tunis Tunisia
1959 Ford wins battle with Chrysler to call its new car "Falcon"
1969 US troop capture Hill 937/Hamburger Hill Vietnam
1980 In a referendum, 59.5% of Qu?bec voters reject separatism
1990 Hubble Space Telescope sends 1st photographs from space
1992 India launches its 1st satellite independently

Wasn't, it 50.5%? Ben

there's been a few of those votes in Quebec and if my memory is correct I think one was very close to the 50% mark which sparked another vote relatively soon after