Daily Calendar for Monday, May 4, 2026
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Monday, May 4, 2026
Born
- Horace Mann (American educator) –
- Audrey Hepburn (actress) –
- Randy Travis (country music singer) –
- Ana Gasteyer (actress) –
- Lance Bass (singer) –
- Alexander Gould (actor, voice of Nemo in Finding Nemo) –
Died
- Moe Howard (actor) –
- Fredric Baur (credited with creating Pringles and its can. Part of Mr. Baur’s cremated remains were buried in a Pringles can.) –
- Dom DeLuise (actor) –
- Ellen Albertini Dow (actress) –
- Don Shula (football coach; died in Indian Creek, Florida) –
Events
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences incorporated, in Boston, Massachusetts –
- First general meeting of the Society of the Cincinnati, in Philadelphia –
- Haymarket Affair, Chicago, Illinois –
- First Freedom Ride began –
- First on-the-road Spacemobile lecture –
- National Guardsmen killed 4 antiwar demonstrators at Kent State University –
- Rain caused deadly sinkhole and landslide in St.-Jean-Vianney, Quebec –
- Margaret Thatcher became the United Kingdom’s first female Prime Minister –
- Magellan spacecraft launched from Space Shuttle Atlantis –
- Love Bug computer virus caused billions of dollars in damages –
- Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. However, her name was misspelled. –
- Royal Canadian Mint produced its last penny –
Weather
- Nine inches of snow fell at Waltham, Massachusetts –
- Twelve inches of snow fell near Keene, New Hampshire –
- Two tornadoes struck Austin, Texas –
- Missoula, Montana, had 6.5 inches of snow –
- Damaging windstorm in southern Ontario produced 78-mph wind gusts in Hamilton –