MAY 21, 2020
Today is:
| Hummus Day
Global Accessibility Awareness Day National Memo Day National Notebook Day National Strawberries and Cream Day National Waiters and Waitresses Day |
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744) — English poet & translator. Second-most quoted author in the English language, after Shakespeare. |
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HENRI ROUSSEAU (1844-1910) — French post-impressionist painter. |
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AL FRANKEN (1951) — American comedian, actor, and former politician. |
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MR. T (1952) — American actor, professional wrestler, and TV personality (The A-Team, Rocky III, Mister T) |
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THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. (1972-1997) — American rapper. Known for becoming embroiled in the mid 1990s, East Coast-West Coast hip-hop feud. |
TODAY IN HISTORY
| 1881 – The American Red Cross is founded in Washington DC by Clara Barton. |  |
| 1927 – Charles Lindbergh lands The Spirit of St. Louis in Paris, completing the world’s first nonstop solo trans-Atlantic flight. |  |
| 1932 – Amelia Earhart is forced by bad weather to land her plane in Derry, Northern Ireland, becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. |  |
| 1946 – Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated during a criticality incident while working on the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos. |  |
| 2005 – The world’s tallest roller coaster, Kingda Ka, opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, NJ. |  |
| 2017 – The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus holds its final performance. |  |
