Daily Almanac: Sept. 30, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset:

RISE: 7:39 a.m.

SET: 7:27 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 69 °F

LOW: 44 °F

Today is…:

• Ask a Stupid Question Day

• National Bakery Day

• Save the Koala Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1935 The Hoover Dam is dedicated

• 1939 NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game

• 1962 James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying racial segregation rules

Births On This Day:

• 1924 Truman Capote

American author

• 1928 Elie Wiesel

Romanian/American author, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths On This Day:

• 1973 Pablo Neruda

Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1994 Robert Bloch

American author