Daily Almanac: Aug. 9, 2022

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