MAY 20, 2020
Today is:
| Flower Day
National Rescue Dog Day Pick Strawberries Day World Bee Day International Clinical Trials Day Weights and Measures Day |
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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HONORÉ DE BALZAC (1799-1850) — French novelist and playwright. |
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JIMMY STEWART (1908-1997) — American actor and military officer (Brigadier General). Best known for: It’s a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Vertigo, Rear Window. |
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CHER (1946) — American singer actress and TV personality (The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, Moonstruck, Mask, The Witches of Eastwick) |
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DAN ABRAMS (1966) — American web entrepreneur & TV host. Chief Legal Analyst for ABC News & host of Live PD. |
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BUSTA RHYMES (1972) — American rapper, record producer, and actor. |
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JACK GLEESON (1992) — Irish actor best known as Joffrey Barathron on Game of Thrones. |
TODAY IN HISTORY
| 325 – The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, beginning the Catholic Church’s first ecumenical council. |  |
| 1570 – Barbatian cartographer Abraham Otrelius publishes Theatrum Oribs Terrarum, the world’s first modern atlas. |  |
| 1609 – Shakespeare’s sonnets are (allegedly illicitly) first published in London. |  |
| 1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis are awarded a patent for denim blue jeans with copper rivets. |  |
| 1940 – The first prisoners arrive at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. |  |
| 1983 – The discovery of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS is first published in the journal Science. |  |
