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Daily Calendar for Monday, February 3, 2025
Born
- Felix Mendelssohn (composer) β
- Horace Greeley (journalist) β
- Elizabeth Blackwell (first woman to earn an MD degree in the U.S.) β
- Sidney Lanier (poet) β
- Gertrude Stein (author) β
- Norman Rockwell (artist) β
- James Michener (novelist) β
- Joey Bishop (comedian) β
- Shelley Berman (actor) β
- Blythe Danner (actress) β
- Morgan Fairchild (actress) β
- Nathan Lane (actor) β
- Maura Tierney (actress) β
- Warwick Davis (actor) β
- Isla Fisher (actress) β
- Ryne Sanborn (actor) β
Died
- Woodrow Wilson (28th U.S. president) β
- Nancy Kulp (actress) β
- Audrey Meadows (actress) β
- James Blackwood (member of the giant gospel group, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet) β
- Al Lewis (actor, most well-known as Grandpa Munster on The Munsters) β
- Frances Reid (actress) β
Events
- U.S. copyright law began protecting musicβ
- Calcutta Railway openedβ
- Teddy Roosevelt visited his sweetheart, Alice Lee, Chestnut Hill, MAβ
- Fire destroyed Parliament Buildings, Ottawa, Ontarioβ
- The Four Chaplains, having given their life jackets to others, drowned when the torpedoed SS Dorchester sank during WWIIβ
- XI Winter Olympics open in Sapporo, Japanβ
- President Clinton lifted the Trade Embargo on Vietnamβ
- Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins became the first woman in the United States to pilot a space shuttle (Discovery)β
- The New England Patriots beat the St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXVIβ
- A healthy Laysan albatross chick hatched at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the Pacific Ocean. Its mother was a 62-year-old Laysan albatross named Wisdom—the oldest known living wild bird at the time.β
- Sumatran tiger triplets born at the London Zoo. Melati was the proud 5-year-old tiger mom.β
Weather
- A storm in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, brought 20 inches of snowβ
- North Americaβs coldest temperature was recorded in Snag, Yukon Territory. The temperature dropped to -81.4Β°F. β
- A rare February EF1 tornado hit Gray, Roberts, and Hemphill counties in Texasβ