Daily Calendar for Sunday, December 5, 2021
Born
- Martin Van Buren (8th U.S. president. He was the first president to be a U.S. citizen at birth) –
- George Armstrong Custer (U.S. Calvary officer) –
- Walt Disney (animator & theme park developer) –
- Strom Thurmond (politician) –
- Frankie Muniz (actor) –
Died
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (composer) –
- Claude Monet (painter) –
- Shoeless Joe Jackson (baseball player) –
- Don Meredith (football player & broadcaster) –
- Pusuke (world’s oldest living dog until time of death) –
- Nelson Mandela (political activist) –
Events
- Canada’s first electric car debuted, in Toronto, Ontario–
- American League for Physical Culture formed–
- First large hydroponicum established, in Montebello, California–
- Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott to protest racial segregation on city buses–
- The Rolling Stones celebrated the release of Beggars Banquet with a custard pie fight at London’s Kensington Gore Hotel–
- The last new episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus was broadcast on the BBC–
- The first six astronauts were chosen for the Canadian Space Program–
- Electric eels lit a Christmas tree at the Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy, Utah–
Weather
- Deadly tornado struck Vicksburg, Mississippi–
- Boston, Massachusetts, received 18 inches of snow–
- Newport, Rhode Island, received 24 inches of snow–
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