Daily Almanac: Oct. 11, 2022
Sunrise/Sunset:
RISE: 7:50 a.m.
SET: 7:10 p.m.
High/Low Temperatures:
HIGH: 76 °F
LOW: 51 °F
Today is…:
• General Pulaski Memorial Day
• Myths and Legends Day
• Southern Food Heritage Day
What Happened On This Day:
• 1910 President Theodore Roosevelt becomes first U.S. president to fly in an airplane
• 1968 NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission
• 1984 Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk
Births On This Day:
• 1884 Eleanor Roosevelt
American politician, humanitarian and 34th First Lady of the United States
• 1937 Bobby Charlton
English footballer
Deaths On This Day:
• 1961 Chico Marx
American comedian
• 1965 Dorothea Lange
American photographer and journalist