Daily Almanac: Dec. 3, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 7:48 a.m.
SET: 5:18 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 37 °F
LOW: 34 °F

Today is…

• Day of the Covenant
• National Cake Day
• Small Business Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1818 Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.
• 1979 In Cincinnati, 11 fans are suffocated in a crush for seats outside Riverfront Coliseum before a Who concert
• 1989 President George H. W. Bush and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev announce Cold War is close to ending

Births On This Day

• 1826 George B. McClellan
American general, politician and 24th Governor of New Jersey
• 1857 Joseph Conrad
Polish/English author

Deaths On This Day

• 1894 Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish author and poet
• 1910 Mary Baker Eddy
American writer and founder of Christian Science