Daily Calendar for Friday, May 2, 2025
Died
- Leonardo da Vinci (artist) –
- Joseph McCarthy (U.S. senator) –
- J. Edgar Hoover (Director of U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation) –
- Walter M. "Wally" Schirra Jr. (one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts and the only man to fly in all three of NASA’s earliest manned spaceships) –
- Jack Kemp (football player & politician) –
Born
- Dr. Benjamin Spock (pediatrician) –
- Bernard Slade (television writer and playwright) –
- Christine Baranski (actress) –
- Kelly Gibson (golfer) –
- Dwayne Johnson (actor) –
- David Beckham (soccer player) –
- Kyle Busch (race car driver) –
- Sarah Hughes (Olympic gold medalist figure skater) –
Events
- Hudson’s Bay Co. chartered –
- First provisional government in the Pacific Northwest approved, Champoeg, Oregon –
- Good Housekeeping magazine debuted –
- First U.S. kindergarten for the blind opened –
- First drawing sent by radio across Atlantic –
- Alcatraz Prison riots began –
- Northern Dancer became first Canadian horse to win Kentucky Derby –
- Ninety-one people killed in mine disaster caused by a fire at the Sunshine Silver Mine in Idaho –
- The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial was dedicated, Washington, D.C. –
- Tony Blair became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom –
- Horse Mine That Bird won Kentucky Derby –
Weather
- A tornado struck Port Royal Island, South Carolina –
- Six tornadoes hit Scott County, Virginia –
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