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