Daily Calendar for Saturday, May 5, 2029

Name: Daily Almanac Features
Start: 2029-05-05T00:00:00
End: 2029-05-05T23:59:59

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Napoleon I of France – 1821
Bobby Sands (IRA activist) – 1981
Hugo Banzer (former president of Bolivia) – 2002
Irvine Robbins (co-founder of Baskin-Robbins) – 2008
Claude Stanley Choules (the last known combat veteran of World War I died at the age of 110) – 2011

The Billboard (later known as just Billboard) magazine began weekly publication – 1900
Cy Young became the fist major league pitcher in baseball’s modern era to throw a perfect” game” – 1904
Chanel No. 5 introduced – 1921
English aviatyor Amy Johnson became the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia. – 1930
Kilauea erupted – 1973
Picasso’s Boy With a Pipe set a new world record for the most expensive painting ever sold at auction when it soared to $104,168,000 at Sotheby’s. The price, which included the auction house’s commission, easily eclipsed the old mark of $82.5 million set by van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr. Gachet, which had stood since 1990 – 2004

In downtown Sacramento, California, the temperature soared to 100 degrees F – 1987
Stormy seas capsized 3 recreational fishing boats off Port Angeles in Washington – 1990
A supercell thunderstorm blasted Tarrant County, Texas, with hail, 80 mph winds, and torrential rains, which caused flash flooding in Fort Worth – 1995