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The Really Small Bad Day Almanac: May 20

685: Northumbrians lose the Battle of Dun Nechtain in what is now Scotland to the Pictish king Bridei III.
1802: France returns reinstates slavery in its colonies after abolishing it during the French Revolution.
1983: Nineteen people die in a car bombing in Pretoria, South Africa.
2013: In Oklahoma, 24 people die when an EF5 tornado strikes Moore, a suburb of Oklahoma City.

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