Daily Calendar for Sunday, May 4, 2025
Question of the Day
Every year, my zucchini plants are killed by squash borers. Is there any way to prevent this?
Try mulching with aluminum foil. It confuses the moths so that they can’t lay their eggs at the base of the stalk. Examine the vines occasionally for borers; if you find any, remove them by slitting the stalk.
Advice of the Day
If you stub your toe, kiss your thumb and you’ll see your beau.
Home Hint of the Day
When building a walk or patio from bricks, use weatherproof bricks. These bricks have been baked longer and have a hard surface that repels water. Soft bricks will absorb water over time and freeze and crack in the winter.
Word of the Day
Wallop
A quick, rolling movement; a gallop. To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
Puzzle of the Day
Which chef in the kitchen wears the largest hat?
The one with the largest head.
Born
- Horace Mann (American educator) –
- Audrey Hepburn (actress) –
- Randy Travis (country music singer) –
- Ana Gasteyer (actress) –
- Lance Bass (singer) –
- Alexander Gould (actor, voice of Nemo in Finding Nemo) –
Died
- Moe Howard (actor) –
- Fredric Baur (credited with creating Pringles and its can. Part of Mr. Baur’s cremated remains were buried in a Pringles can.) –
- Dom DeLuise (actor) –
- Ellen Albertini Dow (actress) –
Events
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences incorporated, in Boston, Massachusetts –
- First general meeting of the Society of the Cincinnati, in Philadelphia –
- Haymarket Affair, Chicago, Illinois –
- First Freedom Ride began –
- First on-the-road Spacemobile lecture –
- National Guardsmen killed 4 antiwar demonstrators at Kent State University –
- Rain caused deadly sinkhole and landslide in St.-Jean-Vianney, Quebec –
- Margaret Thatcher became the United Kingdom’s first female Prime Minister –
- Magellan spacecraft launched from Space Shuttle Atlantis –
- Love Bug computer virus caused billions of dollars in damages –
- Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. However, her name was misspelled. –
- Royal Canadian Mint produced its last penny –
Weather
- Nine inches of snow fell at Waltham, Massachusetts –
- Twelve inches of snow fell near Keene, New Hampshire –
- Two tornadoes struck Austin, Texas –
- Missoula, Montana, had 6.5 inches of snow –
- Damaging windstorm in southern Ontario produced 78-mph wind gusts in Hamilton –
