Daily Calendar for Sunday, May 4, 2025
Born
- Horace Mann (American educator) –
- Audrey Hepburn (actress) –
- Randy Travis (country music singer) –
- Ana Gasteyer (actress) –
- Lance Bass (singer) –
- Alexander Gould (actor, voice of Nemo in Finding Nemo) –
Died
- Moe Howard (actor) –
- Fredric Baur (credited with creating Pringles and its can. Part of Mr. Baur’s cremated remains were buried in a Pringles can.) –
- Dom DeLuise (actor) –
- Ellen Albertini Dow (actress) –
Events
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences incorporated, in Boston, Massachusetts–
- First general meeting of the Society of the Cincinnati, in Philadelphia–
- Haymarket Affair, Chicago, Illinois–
- First Freedom Ride began–
- First on-the-road Spacemobile lecture–
- National Guardsmen killed 4 antiwar demonstrators at Kent State University–
- Rain caused deadly sinkhole and landslide in St.-Jean-Vianney, Quebec–
- Margaret Thatcher became the United Kingdom’s first female Prime Minister–
- Magellan spacecraft launched from Space Shuttle Atlantis–
- Love Bug computer virus caused billions of dollars in damages–
- Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. However, her name was misspelled.–
- Royal Canadian Mint produced its last penny–
Weather
- Nine inches of snow fell at Waltham, Massachusetts–
- Twelve inches of snow fell near Keene, New Hampshire–
- Two tornadoes struck Austin, Texas–
- Missoula, Montana, had 6.5 inches of snow–
- Damaging windstorm in southern Ontario produced 78-mph wind gusts in Hamilton–
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