Daily Calendar for Saturday, August 5, 2023
Died
- King Louis III of France –
- Carmen Miranda (actress & singer) –
- Edgar Guest (poet) –
- Marilyn Monroe (actress) –
- Richard Burton (actor) –
- Sir Alec Guinness (actor) –
- Chick Hearn (basketball announcer, coined the phrases slam dunk and airball) –
Born
- Joseph Justus Scaliger (historian) –
- Thomas Lynch (signer of the Declaration of Independence) –
- Tom Thomson (painter) –
- Conrad Aiken (poet) –
- Neil Armstrong (astronaut; first to set foot on the Moon) –
- Maureen McCormick (actress) –
- Patrick Ewing (basketball player) –
- Olivia Holt (actress) –
Events
- Sir Humphrey Gilbert established the first English colony in North America, what is now St John’s, Newfoundland –
- The United States government issued its first income tax –
- Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias incorporated –
- Cornerstone for pedestal of Statue of Liberty laid –
- The first electric traffic light installed, Cleveland, Ohio –
- Royal Canadian Navy (through premier of British Columbia) acquired their first submarines –
- Little Orphan Annie made her comic strip debut –
- Gun turret and artifacts of Civil War U.S.S. Monitor recovered –
- Ralston reservoir dam broke near Auburn, California, sending a 3-foot-high wall of water down the American River –
- Brown booby spotted, Virginia Beach, VA –
Weather
- A spectacular cloudburst and tornado at Chester Creek, near Philadelphia, brought 16 inches of rain in three hours –
- 16 inches of rain fell in 3 hours in Delaware City, Pennsylvania –
- An Earthquake shakes Pelileo Ecuador, registering 6.8 on the Richter scale and causing 6000 deaths –
- Ice Harbor Dam, Washington, hit a temperature of 118 degrees F –
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