Daily Calendar for Monday, February 3, 2025

Woodrow Wilson (28th U.S. president) – 1924
Nancy Kulp (actress) – 1991
Audrey Meadows (actress) – 1996
James Blackwood (member of the giant gospel group, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet) – 2002
Al Lewis (actor, most well-known as Grandpa Munster on The Munsters) – 2006
Frances Reid (actress) – 2010

U.S. copyright law began protecting music– 1831
Calcutta Railway opened– 1855
Teddy Roosevelt visited his sweetheart, Alice Lee, Chestnut Hill, MA– 1880
Fire destroyed Parliament Buildings, Ottawa, Ontario– 1916
The Four Chaplains, having given their life jackets to others, drowned when the torpedoed SS Dorchester sank during WWII– 1943
XI Winter Olympics open in Sapporo, Japan– 1972
President Clinton lifted the Trade Embargo on Vietnam– 1994
Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins became the first woman in the United States to pilot a space shuttle (Discovery)– 1995
The New England Patriots beat the St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI– 2002
A healthy Laysan albatross chick hatched at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the Pacific Ocean. Its mother was a 62-year-old Laysan albatross named Wisdom—the oldest known living wild bird at the time.– 2013
Sumatran tiger triplets born at the London Zoo. Melati was the proud 5-year-old tiger mom.– 2014

A storm in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, brought 20 inches of snow– 1803
North America’s coldest temperature was recorded in Snag, Yukon Territory. The temperature dropped to -81.4°F. – 1947
A rare February EF1 tornado hit Gray, Roberts, and Hemphill counties in Texas– 2012