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