Daily Almanac: Aug. 4, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset:
RISE: 6:45 a.m.
SET: 8:54 p.m.
High/Low Temperatures:
High: 85 °F
Low: 73 °F
Today is…:
• Assistance Dog Day
• Single Working Women’s Day
• U.S. Coast Guard Day
What Happened On This Day:
• 1914 Britain declares war on Germany
• 1944 Anne Frank is captured
• 1977 U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating Department of Energy.
Births On This Day:
• 1901 Louis Armstrong
American trumpeter, singer
• 1961 Barack Obama
American politician, 44th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths On This Day:
• 1792 John Burgoyne
English general
• 2007 Raul Hilberg
Austrian/American political scientist, historian