20/05/10

The First Council of Nicea convened in 325.  King Sancho IV of Castile founded the Estudio de Escuelas Generales de Alcalá, now known as the Universidad Complutense, in 1293.  XWA in Montreal began the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America in 1920.

Born today:  Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), Sigrid Undset (1882-1949),Jimmy Stewart (1908-1997), Sadaharo Oh (1940), Joe Cocker (1944), Cher (1946), Louis Theroux (1970), Iker Casillas (1981), and Peter Cech (1982)

It is Independence Day in East Timor.