Daily Calendar for Saturday, July 5, 2025

Born

  • Sarah Siddons (actress) –
  • Sylvester Graham (inventor of the Graham cracker) –
  • P. T. Barnum (circus owner) –
  • Dwight Filley Davis (sportsman) –
  • Jean Cocteau (writer) –
  • Brooke Hayward (actress) –
  • Robbie Robertson (musician ) –
  • Huey Lewis (musician) –
  • Rich "Goose" Gossage (baseball player) –
  • Bill Watterson (cartoonist) –
  • Edie Falco (actress) –
  • John LeClair (hockey player) –
  • Jason Wade (musician) –
  • Shohei Ohtani (baseball player) –
  • Dolly the sheep (first cloned mammal) –

Died

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

Events

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

Weather

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

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