Today is Saturday, May 20th, the 140th day of the year. There are 225
days remaining until the end of the year.
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES Date Your Mate Month,
Foster Care Month, National Barbecue Month, National Bike
Month, National Blood Pressure Month, National Photograph
Month, National Recommitment Month, Older Americans Month
National Salad Month, National Water Safety Month, National Bike
Week, Josephine Baker Day, Emancipation Day (Florida), World
Meteorology Day, Be a Millionaire Day, Armed Forces Day, Pick
Strawberries Day
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
David Patterson, 68, politician
Kevin Frazier, 58, sportcaster
Terrell Brandon, 53, basketball player
Busta Rhymes, 51, rapper
Naturi Naughton, 38, singer
HISTORIC BIRTHDAYS
Shorty Long, 83, singer/songwriter (d. 1969)
DEATHS
Rudy Lewis, 1964, singer (The Drifters) (b. 1936)
Malik Sealy, 2000, basketball player (b. 1970)
ON THIS DATE IN…
1868 – P.B.S. Pinchback and James J. Harris are the first Black
delegates to the Republican National Convention.
1942 – U.S. Navy 1st permitted black recruits to serve.
1958 – Robert N.C. Nix is elected to Congress from Pennsylvania.
1961 – White mob attacks “Freedom Riders” in Montgomery, Ala.,
U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy dispatches U.S. marshals
to restore order.
1964 – Buster Mathis defeats Joe Frazier to qualify for the U.S.
Olympic team.
1971 – The Pentagon reports blacks constitute 11% of U.S. soldiers in
Southeast Asia.
1983 – First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes
AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.
1984 – The Cosby Show premiered on NBC.
1991 – Michael Jordan named NBA MVP.
HOROSCOPE
Your sign’s paired element is Earth and of all the zodiac signs, only the Taurus has a fixed relationship with the element. Your special connection with Earth allows your personality to be a stable and firm as the ground you walk on. While others may call you stubborn, this quality is only a result of your earthly prudence. You find no comfort in having your heads in the clouds, instead you only work towards practical and realistic goals. Embracing your earthly influence will keep you on a path toward success and material gain.