Daily Calendar for Wednesday, August 5, 2026

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King Louis III of France – 0882
Carmen Miranda (actress & singer) – 1955
Edgar Guest (poet) – 1959
Marilyn Monroe (American actress; died in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California) – 1962
Richard Burton (actor) – 1984
Sir Alec Guinness (actor) – 2000
Chick Hearn (basketball announcer, coined the phrases slam dunk and airball) – 2002

Joseph Justus Scaliger (historian) – 1540
Thomas Lynch (signer of the Declaration of Independence) – 1749
Mary Ritter Beard (American author and historian; born in Indianapolis, Indiana) – 1876
Tom Thomson (painter) – 1877
Conrad Aiken (poet) – 1889
Neil Armstrong (astronaut; first to set foot on the Moon) – 1930
Maureen McCormick (actress) – 1956
Patrick Ewing (basketball player) – 1962
Olivia Holt (actress) – 1997

Sir Humphrey Gilbert established the first English colony in North America, what is now St John’s, Newfoundland – 1583
The United States government issued its first income tax – 1861
Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias incorporated – 1870
Cornerstone for pedestal of Statue of Liberty laid – 1884
The first electric traffic light installed, Cleveland, Ohio – 1914
Royal Canadian Navy (through premier of British Columbia) acquired their first submarines – 1914
Little Orphan Annie made her comic strip debut – 1924
Gun turret and artifacts of Civil War U.S.S. Monitor recovered – 2002
Ralston reservoir dam broke near Auburn, California, sending a 3-foot-high wall of water down the American River – 2004
Brown booby spotted, Virginia Beach, VA – 2006

A spectacular cloudburst and tornado at Chester Creek, near Philadelphia, brought 16 inches of rain in three hours – 1843
16 inches of rain fell in 3 hours in Delaware City, Pennsylvania – 1863
An Earthquake shakes Pelileo Ecuador, registering 6.8 on the Richter scale and causing 6000 deaths – 1949
Ice Harbor Dam, Washington, hit a temperature of 118 degrees F – 1961