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May 20:

 * 1902 - Oliver Bulman was born in London, England.
 * 2002 - Stephen Jay Gould died of cancer in New York City, New York, USA at age 60.
 * 2015 - Brandon R. Peecook and Christian A. Sidor reported the first non-avian dinosaur fossil discovered in the US state of Washington, a large theropod from the Campanian Cedar District Formation. Lida Xing and others reinterpreted the Early Cretaceous small non-avian theropod ichnospecies Wupus agilis from China as the tracks of a heron-like bird.