Daily Calendar for Monday, February 3, 2025

Born

  • Felix Mendelssohn (composer) –
  • Horace Greeley (journalist) –
  • Elizabeth Blackwell (first woman to earn an MD degree in the U.S.) –
  • Sidney Lanier (poet) –
  • Gertrude Stein (author) –
  • Norman Rockwell (artist) –
  • James Michener (novelist) –
  • Joey Bishop (comedian) –
  • Shelley Berman (actor) –
  • Blythe Danner (actress) –
  • Morgan Fairchild (actress) –
  • Nathan Lane (actor) –
  • Maura Tierney (actress) –
  • Warwick Davis (actor) –
  • Isla Fisher (actress) –
  • Ryne Sanborn (actor) –

Died

  • Woodrow Wilson (28th U.S. president) –
  • Nancy Kulp (actress) –
  • Audrey Meadows (actress) –
  • James Blackwood (member of the giant gospel group, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet) –
  • Al Lewis (actor, most well-known as Grandpa Munster on The Munsters) –
  • Frances Reid (actress) –

Events

  • U.S. copyright law began protecting music –
  • Calcutta Railway opened –
  • Teddy Roosevelt visited his sweetheart, Alice Lee, Chestnut Hill, MA –
  • Fire destroyed Parliament Buildings, Ottawa, Ontario –
  • The Four Chaplains, having given their life jackets to others, drowned when the torpedoed SS Dorchester sank during WWII –
  • XI Winter Olympics open in Sapporo, Japan –
  • President Clinton lifted the Trade Embargo on Vietnam –
  • Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins became the first woman in the United States to pilot a space shuttle (Discovery) –
  • The New England Patriots beat the St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI –
  • 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. –
  • Sumatran tiger triplets born at the London Zoo. Melati was the proud 5-year-old tiger mom. –

Weather

  • A storm in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, brought 20 inches of snow –
  • North America’s coldest temperature was recorded in Snag, Yukon Territory. The temperature dropped to -81.4Β°F. –
  • A rare February EF1 tornado hit Gray, Roberts, and Hemphill counties in Texas –

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