What happened this day in history??? - Vasco da Gama reached India in this day

Vasco da Gama the first European who reached India via the Atlantic Ocean at May 20 1498.  He arrives calicut on the Malabar Coast.

Gama sailed from Lisbon, Portugal, in july 1497, rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and Anchored at Malindi on the east coast of Africa. With the help of the Indian merchant he met there, he then set off across the Indian Ocean. The Portuguese explorer was not greeted warmly by the Muslim merchants of Calicut, and in 1499 he had to fight his way out of the harbor on his return trip home. In 1502, he led a squadron of ships to Calicut to avenge the massacre of Portuguese explorers there and succeeded in subduing the inhabitants. In 1524, he was sent as viceroy to Indis, but he fell ill and died in Cochin.