Daily Calendar for Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Died
- King Louis III of France β
- Carmen Miranda (actress & singer) β
- Edgar Guest (poet) β
- Marilyn Monroe (actress) β
- Richard Burton (actor) β
- Sir Alec Guinness (actor) β
- Chick Hearn (basketball announcer, coined the phrases slam dunk and airball) β
Born
- Joseph Justus Scaliger (historian) β
- Thomas Lynch (signer of the Declaration of Independence) β
- Tom Thomson (painter) β
- Conrad Aiken (poet) β
- Neil Armstrong (astronaut; first to set foot on the Moon) β
- Maureen McCormick (actress) β
- Patrick Ewing (basketball player) β
- Olivia Holt (actress) β
Events
- Sir Humphrey Gilbert established the first English colony in North America, what is now St John’s, Newfoundland β
- The United States government issued its first income tax β
- Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias incorporated β
- Cornerstone for pedestal of Statue of Liberty laid β
- The first electric traffic light installed, Cleveland, Ohio β
- Royal Canadian Navy (through premier of British Columbia) acquired their first submarines β
- Little Orphan Annie made her comic strip debut β
- Gun turret and artifacts of Civil War U.S.S. Monitor recovered β
- Ralston reservoir dam broke near Auburn, California, sending a 3-foot-high wall of water down the American River β
- Brown booby spotted, Virginia Beach, VA β
Weather
- A spectacular cloudburst and tornado at Chester Creek, near Philadelphia, brought 16 inches of rain in three hours β
- 16 inches of rain fell in 3 hours in Delaware City, Pennsylvania β
- An Earthquake shakes Pelileo Ecuador, registering 6.8 on the Richter scale and causing 6000 deaths β
- Ice Harbor Dam, Washington, hit a temperature of 118 degrees F β
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