Daily Almanac: Aug. 9, 2022
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Sunrise/Sunset:
RISE: 6:49 a.m.
SET: 8:48 p.m.
High/Low Temperatures:
High: 82 °F
Low: 72 °F
Today is…:
• Book Lovers Day
• International Day of the World’s Indigenous People
• National Veep Day
What Happened On This Day:
• 1854 Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden
• 1930 Betty Boop makes her debut
• 1945 Atomic Bomb dropped on Japanese city of Nagasaki
Births On This Day:
• 1947 Roy Hodgson
English football manager
• 1963 Whitney Houston
American singer, actress, producer, model
Deaths On This Day:
• 1962 Hermann Hesse
German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1995 Jerry Garcia
American singer-songwriter, guitarist