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THIS DAY IN HISTORY Monday, 20 May 2013

	1498 Portuguese explorer, Vasco da Gama, landed at Calicut.

	1506 Explorer Christopher Columbus died in abject poverty at Valladolid in Spain.

	1777 The first iron boat, that could carry 15 passengers, was launched on the River Floss in Yorkshire, England.

	1895 Income tax was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the United States.

	1965 Sherpa Nawang Gombu became the first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest twice, when he climbed it with the first-ever Indian team.

	2002 East Timor in Southeast Asia became an independent state.

	2006 China completed the construction of the wall of the Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest dam and electricity-generating plant.