On This Day:
November 20th
Birthdays:
1602 - Otto von Guericke (invented the air pump).
1900 - Chester Gould (cartoonist / known as the creator of the Dick Tracy comic strip).
1908 - Alistair Cooke (writer / journalist / television personality / radio broadcaster).
1920 - Gene Tierney
1925 - Maya Plisetkaya (ballet dancer / choreographer / ballet director / actor).
1925 - Robert F. Kennedy (politician / lawyer / U.S. Attorney General).
1932 - Richard Dawson
1939 - Dick Smothers (actor / comedian / composer / musician / 'The Smothers Brothers').
1956 - Bo Derek (actor / model).
1959 - Sean Young
1971 - Joel McHale
Events:
1888 - William Bundy invents the first timecard clock.
1914 - The State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
1947 - Princess Elizabeth of England and Lt. Phillip Mountbatten are married at Westminster Abbey.
