Daily Calendar for Friday, May 23, 2025
Died
- Captain William Kidd (hanged in London) 鈥
- John D. Rockerfeller (entrepreneur) 鈥
- Sam Snead (golfer) 鈥
- Anne Meara (actress) 鈥
- Eric Carle (children’s book author, most notably The Very Hungry Caterpillar) 鈥
Born
- Carolus Linnaeus (botanist) 鈥
- Douglas Fairbanks (actor) 鈥
- John Bardeen (physicist) 鈥
- Artie Shaw (bandleader) 鈥
- Rosemary Clooney (singer) 鈥
- Barbara Barrie (actress) 鈥
- Joan Collins (actress) 鈥
- Robert Moog (inventor) 鈥
- Drew Carey (actor; host of The Price is Right) 鈥
- Mitch Albom (author) 鈥
- Ken Jennings (won 74 straight games on Jeopardy! game show in 2004) 鈥
- Jewel (musician) 鈥
Events
- Benjamin Franklin created his own pair of bifocals鈥
- South Carolina was admitted to the Union as the 8th state鈥
- Explorer William Clark: 鈥淲ater freeses [sic] on the oars鈥 in what is now Montana.鈥
- North-West Mounted Police formed (now Royal Canadian Mounted Police)鈥
- New York Public Library in New York City is established鈥
- Townsend-Purnell Plant Patent Act became the first in the United States to grant patent protection to plant breeders鈥
- Actor Errol Flynn appeared on the cover of LIFE Magazine鈥
- Queen Juliana of the Netherlands laid the cornerstone of the tower housing the Netherlands Centennial Carillon in Victoria, British Columbia鈥
- Five people were killed, when a large part of the roof of a new terminal collapsed at Paris鈥 Charles de Gaulle Airport in France鈥
- Hugh Laurie was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace鈥
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- Folks were sleighing in Farmington, Maine鈥
- Late season snowstorm blanketed eastern Iowa with 4 to 6 inches of snow鈥
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