Directed by Sam Raimi and starring Tobey Maguire in the title
role, the eagerly awaited comic book adaptation Spider-Man
was released on Friday, May 3, 2002, and quickly became
the fastest movie ever to earn more than $100 million at the
box office, raking in a staggering $114.8 million by Sunday,
May 5.

Tobey Maguire will be 51 on June 27.

On May 5, 1921, a date of symbolic importance to its iconic
creator, the perfume Chanel No. 5 officially debuts in Coco
Chanel’s boutique on the Rue Cambon in Paris.

Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel (1883 – 1971) was
the daughter of a clothing peddler and a
laundrywoman.

In Gearhart Mountain, Oregon, Mrs. Elsie Mitchell and five
neighborhood children were killed while attempting to drag
a Japanese balloon out of the woods.

They were the first and only known American civilians to be
killed in the continental United States during World War II.

The U.S. government eventually gave $5,000 in compensation
to Mitchell’s husband, and $3,000 each to the families of Edward
Engen, Sherman Shoemaker, Jay Gifford and Richard and Ethel
Patzke, the five slain children.

The explosive balloon found at Lakeview was a product of one
of only a handful of Japanese attacks against the continental
United States, which were conducted early in the war by
Japanese submarines and later by high-altitude balloons
carrying explosives or incendiaries.

             
CAMILLE BOHANNON