On This Day:
May 20th
Birthdays:
1750 - Stephen Girard (bailed out US bonds during the War of 1812).
1799 - Honore de Balzac (novelist / playwright).
1818 - William George Fargo (helped to found Wells Fargo & Co).
1908 - Jimmy Stewart (actor).
1913 - William Hewlett (co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Co).
1915 - Moshe Dayan (Israeli general / politician).
1946 - Cherilyn Sarkisian (aka Cher / actor / singer / Sonny and Cher).
1959 - Bronson Pinchot
1960 - Tony Goldwyn
1968 - Timothy Olyphant
1977 - Matt Czuchry
Events:
1845 - First legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii.
1874 - Levi Strauss markets blue jeans with copper rivets (13 dollars and 50 cents A DOZEN).
1927 - Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross the Atlantic.
