Daily Calendar for Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Born
- Nancy Hanks Lincoln (mother of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln) –
- Ralph McGill (American journalist
) –
- William Burroughs (author) –
- Red Buttons (actor) –
- Hank Aaron (baseball player) –
- Roger Staubach (football player) –
- Barbara Hershey (actress) –
- Tom Wilkinson (actor) –
- Laura Linney (actress) –
- Sara Evans (country music singer) –
Died
- Marianne Moore (poet) –
- Samuel M. Rubin (known as Sam the Popcorn Man, the first to pop corn in machines on a widespread basis in theaters) –
- Franklin Cover (actor) –
- Brian Jacques (children’s author) –
- Kirk Douglas (actor) –
- Toby Keith (country musician) –
Events
- Religious leader Roger Williams arrived in America (Boston) –
- First annual meeting of the American Statistical Association –
- The Oregon Spectator was the first newspaper published on the Pacific coast of the United States –
- Edwin Prescott was granted a patent for a centrifugal railway (an early design of a looping roller coaster) –
- The Yankees bought 10 acres in the Bronx, New York, for a stadium –
- Richard Button won Olympic gold for figure skating –
- The first “Don’t Walk” automatic signs were installed in New York City –
- Walt Disney’s Peter Pan premiered –
- Canadian industrialist and William Stephenson invested as Companion of Order of Canada –
- RHESSI (then called HESSI) launched to study solar flares. (RHESSI stands for Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager.) –
- The National Zoo’s first litter of cheetahs in 115 years went on display to the public –
Weather
- San Francisco, California, received 3.7” of snow downtown and 7” in the west hills –
- Two to 4 inches of snow fell in parts of southern Louisiana - more than had been received in any of the preceding 15 years. –
- Most of the western United States experienced a severe arctic outbreak –
- Northern Minnesota saw chilly temperatures of -38 F in Hallock and -42 F in Embarrass –
- Grand Fork, North Dakota, and International Falls, Minnesota, each recorded a temperature of -30 degrees F –
- The temperature dropped to -44 degrees F in Winnipeg, Manitoba –
- Dozens of twisters were reported in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Alabama –
