Daily Calendar for Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Add sugar to arrangements of larkspur and delphinium.
Home Hint of the Day
If you store firewood in the cellar, pour a concrete floor first. This will make for easy cleanup.
Word of the Day
Nephelococcygia
Sometimes clouds look like other objects, such as dragons, elephants, letters, and even people. Cloud naming is called nephelococcygia.
Puzzle of the Day
Why do seagulls live by the sea?
Because if they lived by the bay, they’d be bagels.
Born
- Albrecht Durer (painter) –
- Alexander Pope (poet) –
- Henri Rousseau (painter) –
- James Gladstone (first Canadian aboriginal senator) –
- Fats Waller (jazz pianist) –
- Raymond Burr (actor) –
- Richard Hatch (actor, writer, producer) –
- Mr. T (actor) –
- Ashlie Brillault (actress) –
Died
- Hernando de Soto (explorer) –
- Jane Addams (social worker) –
Events
- Windsor Agricultural Fair (North America’s oldest) founded, Nova Scotia –
- Cyrus McCormick’s reaper patented –
- American Red Cross founded –
- The first U.S. speed limit law for motor vehicles (12 mph in the city/15 mph in the country) passed in Connecticut –
- Aviator Charles Lindbergh completed the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic, New York to Paris –
- Amelia Earhart completed the first solo flight by a woman across the Atlantic –
- Robin Moor became the first U.S. merchant ship sunk by a U-boat –
- Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall were married –
- World’s first nuclear powered light-house, Baltimore Light, went into operation, Chesapeake Bay –
- Patti Frustaci gave birth to the first septuplets in the United States –
Weather
- 124 degrees F in Salton, California –
- Elkhart, Kansas, was struck by a dust storm –
- Sleet and snow fell in northern New England –
- An F2 tornado touched down in Hampton, New Hampshire –