Daily Calendar for Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Marianne Moore (poet) – 1972
Samuel M. Rubin (known as Sam the Popcorn Man, the first to pop corn in machines on a widespread basis in theaters) – 2004
Franklin Cover (actor) – 2006
Brian Jacques (children’s author) – 2011
Kirk Douglas (actor) – 2020
Toby Keith (country musician) – 2024

Religious leader Roger Williams arrived in America (Boston) – 1631
First annual meeting of the American Statistical Association – 1840
The Oregon Spectator was the first newspaper published on the Pacific coast of the United States – 1846
Edwin Prescott was granted a patent for a centrifugal railway (an early design of a looping roller coaster) – 1901
The Yankees bought 10 acres in the Bronx, New York, for a stadium – 1921
Richard Button won Olympic gold for figure skating – 1948
The first “Don’t Walk” automatic signs were installed in New York City – 1952
Walt Disney’s Peter Pan premiered – 1953
Canadian industrialist and William Stephenson invested as Companion of Order of Canada – 1980
RHESSI (then called HESSI) launched to study solar flares. (RHESSI stands for Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager.) – 2002
The National Zoo’s first litter of cheetahs in 115 years went on display to the public – 2005

San Francisco, California, received 3.7” of snow downtown and 7” in the west hills – 1887
Two to 4 inches of snow fell in parts of southern Louisiana - more than had been received in any of the preceding 15 years. – 1988
Most of the western United States experienced a severe arctic outbreak – 1989
Northern Minnesota saw chilly temperatures of -38 F in Hallock and -42 F in Embarrass – 2007
Grand Fork, North Dakota, and International Falls, Minnesota, each recorded a temperature of -30 degrees F – 2007
The temperature dropped to -44 degrees F in Winnipeg, Manitoba – 2007
Dozens of twisters were reported in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Alabama – 2008