Daily Almanac: Jan. 8, 2021
Sunrise/Sunset
RISE: 8:10 a.m.
SET: 5:39 p.m.
High/Low Temperatures
High: 39°F
Low: 14°F
Wacky Holiday Today
• Bubble Bath Day
• Show and Tell at Work Day
What Happened On This Day
• 1790 George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address
• 1912 The African National Congress (ANC) is founded
Births On This Day
• 1935 Elvis Presley
American singer, guitarist, actor
• 1942 Stephen Hawking
English physicist, author
Deaths On This Day
• 1642 Galileo Galilei
Italian astronomer, physicist
• 1942 Joseph Franklin Rutherford
American lawyer, religious leader