What Happened – May 20

It was on this day in 1916 that a Norman Rockwell painting first appeared on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. As a teenager he had transferred from a regular high school to specialized art school and was the art editor for Boy’s Life by the age of 19. When the US entered WWI, he enlisted in the Navy (side note: He failed his first physical for being a few pounds underweight. He gorged on food that evening, thus enabling him to pass the physical the next day) and served as a military artist. During WWII his paintings were used to help sell war bonds. He would also be commissioned to paint several Presidential portraits. as well as various celebrities. After this first appearance on the Post he would go on to make the cover 8 more times in the next 12 months, with a total of 322 in the next 47 years.

 

The earliest event that Wiki says happened on this day is “325 – The First Council of Nicea – the first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church is held” and the most recent is “2002 – The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and 3 years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself is the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976).

A few other things that also happened on this day are:

1873 –  A patent for blue jeans with copper rivets was given to Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss.

1902 – US grants independence to Cuba.

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1932 – Amelia Earhart takes off for the world’s first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female.

1939 – Pan American Airways begins regularly scheduled flights across the Atlantic Ocean.

1989 – Chinese Gov’t declares martial law due to protesters in Tiananmen Square.

 

Slices of birthday cake goes to Mindy CohnBronson Pinchot, Guy Hoffman, Cher, and Joe Cocker.

 

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