Today is World Bee Day ... Happy Bee Day to All Bees
Birthdays: Cher, Jimmy Stewart, Joe Cocker
Twisted History: May 20, 2025
Today is World Bee Day, traditionally celebrated by serenading the planet’s bees with “Happy Bee Day to You.” Either that, or by stinging your enemies.
On this day in 1873, Levi Strauss patented the first blue jeans, denim work pants reinforced with metal rivets. Soon everyone was sporting Levi’s signature bone-washed 501 Benjamin Button-Fly jeans.
On this day in 1927, aviator Charles Lindbergh began his historic first trans-Atlantic solo flight, after being briefly detained at a TSA checkpoint for smuggling 40 kilos of cocaine.
On this day in 1932, Amelia Earhardt began her historic flight across the Atlantic, aiming to set a new record for trans-Atlantic singing of “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall.”
Today’s Birthdays:
Jimmy Stewart (1908-1997): actor, played aviator and trans-Atlantic cocaine trafficker Charles Lindbergh in the 1957 film “The Spirit of Bogata, Colombia.”
Joe Cocker (1944-2014): singer, hit #1 in England with his soulful version of the Beatles tune “(I Get By) With a Little Help from My Pills.”
Cher, 79: singer-actress, won an Oscar for her role as an Italian woman who falls under the spell of cult leader Rev Sun Myung Moon in “Moonstruck.”