Daily Almanac: Oct. 4, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset:

RISE: 7:43 a.m.
SET: 7:21 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 71 °F
LOW: 40 °F

Today is…:

• National Golf Day

• eDay

• World Animal Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1582 The Gregorian Calendar is introduced by Pope Gregory XIII

• 1895 Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men’s Golf Championship

• 1957 Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth

Births On This Day:

• 1822 Rutherford B. Hayes
American politician, 19th President of the United States

• 1988 Derrick Rose
American basketball player

Deaths On This Day:

• 1669 Rembrandt
Dutch painter

• 1970 Janis Joplin
American singer-songwriter