Daily Almanac: Dec. 22, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset:

RISE: 8:02 a.m.
SET: 5:21 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 40 °F
LOW: 30 °F

Today is…:

• Abilities Day
• National Cookie Exchange Day
• National Re-Gifting Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1894 The Dreyfus affair begins in France when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason
• 1944 German troops demand the surrender of US troops at Bastogne, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: “Nuts!”
• 1975 President Gerald Ford creates the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in response to the 1970s energy crisis

Births On This Day:

• 1912 Lady Bird Johnson
American wife of Lyndon B. Johnson, 38th First Lady
• 1989 Jordin Sparks
American singer-songwriter and actress

Deaths On This Day:

• 1989 Samuel Beckett
Irish/French author, playwright, director and Nobel Prize laureate
• 2002 Joe Strummer
English singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor