Daily Almanac: March 02, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset:

RISE: 7:14 a.m.
SET: 6:37 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 53 °F
LOW: 38 °F

Today is…:

• International Cat Rescue Day
• Read Across America Day
• Old Stuff Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1959 Miles Davis records Kind of Blue. It is considered the best-selling jazz album in history and one of the most influential works of jazz music ever produced.
• 1969 Concorde takes off on its maiden flight. The supersonic airliner was retired in 2003, after Air France Flight 4590 crashed shortly after takeoff from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport on July 25, 2000.
• 1995 The top quark is discovered. The existence of this elementary particle, the bottom quark’s counterpart, had been presumed since the 1970’s.

Births On This Day:

• 1968 Daniel Craig
English actor
• 1931 Mikhail Gorbachev
Soviet lawyer, politician, President of the Soviet Union, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths On This Day:

• 1982 Philip K. Dick
American author
• 1930 D. H. Lawrence
English novelist