Daily Calendar for Monday, May 3, 2021
Died
- Adolphe Charles Adam (composer) β
- Frank Levingston (at time of death, was oldest surviving WWII veteran) β
Born
- Bing Crosby (singer) β
- Mary Astor (actress) β
- Sugar Ray Robinson (boxer) β
- James Brown (singer) β
- Frankie Valli (singer) β
- Doug Henning (magician) β
- DulΓ© Hill (actor) β
Events
- First toll bridge (toll for animals began), Rowley, Massachusettsβ
- Washington, D.C., was incorporated as a cityβ
- First U.S. telecast of a book reviewβ
- First broadcast of National Public Radio’s All Things Consideredβ
- The Old Man of the Mountain located in Franconia Notch, NH, fell from his perchβ
- Three veteransβ names were added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorialβ
- Dale Davis, a legally blind 78-year old man from Alta, Iowa, bowled a perfect game during league playβ
Weather
- The temperature dipped to 39 degrees Fahrenheit in Phoenix, Arizonaβ
- Nearly a foot of rain fell within eight hours in New Orleansβ
- The area west of Mooresville, North Carolina, had baseball-size hailβ
- Lake Kemp, Texas, had baseball-size hailβ
- Red River flood peaked in Manitobaβ
- Tornadoes struck Oklahoma, killing 44 people and causing $1.3 billion in damage.β
- Powerful Cyclone Nargis slammed into Myanmar’s Irrawaddy deltaβ
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