Daily Almanac: March 07, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset:
RISE: 7:06 a.m.
SET: 6:43 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:
HIGH: 48 °F
LOW: 37 °F

Today is…:

• Purim
• National Cereal Day
• Peace Corps Day

What Happened On This Day:
• 1965 Police brutally attack civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama. Scores of demonstrators were injured, and the day entered history books as Bloody Sunday. The event helped to shift public opinion in favor of the Civil Rights movement.
• 1945 U.S. troops capture the Ludendorff Bridge and cross the Rhine at Remagen. The legendary capture yielded little strategic advantage but it elevated the morale of the U.S. troops in pursuit of retreating German fighters.
• 1926 The first two-way transatlantic telephone takes place. The conversation between the post office in London and Bell Laboratories in New York was established using a short-wave radio signal.

Births On This Day:

• 1970 Rachel Weisz
English actress
• 1944 Townes Van Zandt
American singer-songwriter, guitarist

Deaths On This Day:

• 1999 Stanley Kubrick
American director
• 1975 Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian philosopher