Daily Calendar for Saturday, July 5, 2025

Ted Williams (baseball player) – 2002
Cy Twombly (artist) – 2011
Burt Shavitz (co-founder and namesake of Burt’s Bees) – 2015
Sakari Momoi (at the time of his death, he was the world’s oldest man at 112 years old) – 2015

Physicist Isaac Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica was published– 1687
William Booth established the Christian Mission (now called The Salvation Army)– 1865
Japanese destroyer Arare sunk in Kiska Harbor, Alaska– 1942
The bikini was introduced in Paris– 1946
Elvis Presley had his first professional recording session in Memphis, Tennessee; (first recording: That’s All Right)– 1954
Arthur Ashe defeated Jimmy Connors at Wimbledon, becoming the first African American male to win the British tennis title– 1975
Football’s Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat Saskatchewan Roughriders, 56 to 0.– 1986

Governor John Winthrop recorded “sudden gust” in N.E. Massachusetts– 1643
Sixteen horses were killed by hailstones in Rapid City, South Dakota– 1891
Lightning bolt struck an oil refinery in Bayonne, New Jersey– 1900
An early-season hurricane brought 82 mph winds and tides that were 11.6 feet above normal to Mobile, Alabama– 1916
From this day through the 17th, temperatures over 111 degrees F caused fruit to bake on trees in Manitoba and Ontario– 1936
Both Midale and Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan, reported temperatures of 113 degrees F– 1937