Daily Almanac: Nov. 10, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset:

RISE: 7:23 a.m.
SET: 5:31 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 75 °F
LOW: 51 °F

Today is…:

• Area Code Day
• USMC Day
• Sesame Street Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1954 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the Iwo Jima memorial in Arlington Ridge Park
• 1958
The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston
• 1975
The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board

Births On This Day:

1483 Martin Luther
German monk, priest and leader of the Protestant Reformation
1968 Tracy Morgan
American comedian and actor

Deaths On This Day:

• 1982 Leonid Brezhnev
Ukrainian-Russian general, politician and 4th Head of State of the Soviet Union
• 2007 Norman Mailer
American author and journalist