Daily Almanac: July 2, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset:

RISE: 6:19 a.m.     

SET: 9:16 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

High: 85 °F

Low: 70 °F

Today is…:

• Made in the USA Day

• World UFO Day

• Hop-a-Park Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1900 The Zeppelin takes off for the first time

• 1937 American aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan are heard for the last time before disappearing

• 2001 World’s first self-contained artificial heart transplant

Births On This Day:

• 1925 Medgar Evers

American civil rights activist

• 1986 Lindsay Lohan

American actress, singer

Deaths On This Day:

• 1566 Nostradamus

French astrologer

• 1961 Ernest Hemingway

American writer, Nobel Prize laureate