Daily Almanac: Jan. 4, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset:

RISE: 8:06 a.m.
SET: 5:31 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 50 °F
LOW: 48 °F

Today is…:

• Free Flower Basket Day
• National Spaghetti Day
• National Trivia Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1853 After having been kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South, Solomon Northup regains his freedom; his memoir Twelve Years a Slave later becomes a national bestseller
• 1958 Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, falls to Earth from orbit
• 2007 The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history

Births On This Day:

• 1942 John McLaughlin
English guitarist and songwriter
• 1986 James Milner
English footballer

Deaths On This Day:

• 1961 Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
• 1965 T. S. Eliot
American/English publisher, playwright, critic and Nobel Prize laureate