Daily Almanac: Nov. 4, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset:

RISE: 8:16 a.m.
SET: 6:38 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 74 °F
LOW: 54 °F

Today is…:

• Fountain Pen Day
• National Candy day
• Use Your Common Sense Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1924 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first woman elected as governor in the U.S.
• 1952 The U.S. government establishes the National Security Agency (NSA)
• 2008 Barack Obama becomes the first person of African-American descent to be elected President

Births On This Day:

• 1916 Walter Cronkite
American journalist
• 1933 Charles K. Kao
Chinese physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths On This Day:

• 1847 Felix Mendelssohn
German pianist, composer and conductor
• 2008 Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, director and producer