Daily Almanac: Feb. 10, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 7:43 a.m.
SET: 6:13 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 42 °F
LOW: 33 °F

Today is…

• Plimsoll Day
• Teddy Day
• The Inbox Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1861 Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America
• 1906 HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships, is christened
• 1967 The 25th Amendment to the US Constitution is ratified

Births On This Day:

• 1890 Boris Pasternak
Russian author, poet and Nobel Prize laureate
• 1929 Jerry Goldsmith
American composer and conductor

Deaths On This Day:

• 1837 Alexander Pushkin
Russian author and poet
• 1932 Edgar Wallace
English journalist, author and playwright