Daily Almanac: June 16, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset:

RISE: 6:14 a.m.

SET: 9:15 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

High: 94 °F

Low: 77 °F

Today is…:

• Bloomsday Day

• Corpus Christi

• World Sea Turtle Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1960 Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho is premiered

• 1963 Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space

• 1976 South African police kill hundreds of protesting schoolchildren

Births On This Day:

• 1723 Adam Smith

Scottish philosopher, economist

• 1971 Tupac Shakur

American rapper, producer, actor

Deaths On This Day:

• 1977 Wernher von Braun

German physicist, engineer

• 2014 Tony Gwynn

American baseball player, coach