Daily Calendar for Friday, May 23, 2025
Died
- Captain William Kidd (hanged in London) –
- John D. Rockerfeller (entrepreneur) –
- Sam Snead (golfer) –
- Anne Meara (actress) –
- Eric Carle (children’s book author, most notably The Very Hungry Caterpillar) –
Born
- Carolus Linnaeus (botanist) –
- Douglas Fairbanks (actor) –
- John Bardeen (physicist) –
- Artie Shaw (bandleader) –
- Rosemary Clooney (singer) –
- Barbara Barrie (actress) –
- Joan Collins (actress) –
- Robert Moog (inventor) –
- Drew Carey (actor; host of The Price is Right) –
- Mitch Albom (author) –
- Ken Jennings (won 74 straight games on Jeopardy! game show in 2004) –
- Jewel (musician) –
Events
- Benjamin Franklin created his own pair of bifocals –
- South Carolina was admitted to the Union as the 8th state –
- Explorer William Clark: “Water freeses [sic] on the oars” in what is now Montana. –
- North-West Mounted Police formed (now Royal Canadian Mounted Police) –
- New York Public Library in New York City is established –
- Townsend-Purnell Plant Patent Act became the first in the United States to grant patent protection to plant breeders –
- Actor Errol Flynn appeared on the cover of LIFE Magazine –
- Queen Juliana of the Netherlands laid the cornerstone of the tower housing the Netherlands Centennial Carillon in Victoria, British Columbia –
- Five people were killed, when a large part of the roof of a new terminal collapsed at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport in France –
- Hugh Laurie was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace –
Weather
- Folks were sleighing in Farmington, Maine –
- Late season snowstorm blanketed eastern Iowa with 4 to 6 inches of snow –
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