May 20, 2023
QUOTE
Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?
--George Gobel
BIRTHDAYS
1818 – William Fargo, Businessman and politician, co-founded Wells Fargo and American Express
1895 – R. J. Mitchell, English engineer, designed the Supermarine Spitfire
1908 – James Stewart, Actor and bomber pilot
1919 – George Gobel, Actor and comedian
1944 – Joe Cocker, Singer-songwriter
IN MEMORY
1909 – Ernest Hogan, Actor and composer
1989 – Gilda Radner, Actress and comedian
2019 – Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver and aviator
IN ON THIS DAY
325 – The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church.
1609 – Shakespeare’s sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
1862 –President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law, opening 84 million acres of public land to settlers.
1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets
1940 – The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.