Daily Almanac: Jan. 19, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset:

RISE: 8:02 a.m.
SET: 5:47 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 56 °F
LOW: 44 °F

Today is…:

• Artist as Outlaw Day
• New Friends Day
• Good Memory Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1829 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy receives its premiere performance
• 1883 The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey
• 1981 Iran hostage crisis: US and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity

Births On This Day:

• 1809 Edgar Allan Poe
American author and poet
• 1946 Dolly Parton
American singer-songwriter and actress

Deaths On This Day:

• 1865 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
French politician, philosopher and economist
• 1990 Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Indian mystic, guru and educator