THE DAY IN HISTORY · MAY 20
May 20 in history
What happened on May 20: 2 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1941 and 1944, each linked to the map that shows it.
German paratroopers descend on Crete — the first invasion by air alone. It succeeds, at a price that ensures it is never tried again.
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— Deportation of the Crimean Tatars
18–20 May 1944 — In three days the NKVD deported the Crimean Tatars, about 191,000 people, mostly to Uzbekistan. Estimates of the share who died in the first years range from about a fifth in NKVD records to almost half in Crimean Tatar surveys. They could not go home until 1989.
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