Daily Almanac: March 15, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset:

RISE: 7:56 a.m.
SET: 7:51 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 50 °F
LOW: 20 °F

Today is…:

• Dumbstruck Day
• Ides of March
• International Day Against Police Brutality

What Happened On This Day:

• 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes President of the Soviet Union. His economic and political reforms, as well as his advocacy of free speech, strengthened pro-democracy movements in other Eastern European countries and ultimately led to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War.
• 1985 The world’s first internet domain name is registered. symbolics.com was registered by the Symbolics Computer Corporation of Massachusetts. There are over 1 billion domains today.
• 1972 Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather is premiered. The gangster movie based on Mario Puzo’s novel is one of the most popular films of all time.

Births On This Day:

• 1975 Eva Longoria
American actress, producer
• 1979 Kevin Youkilis
American baseball player

Deaths On This Day:

• 1983 Rebecca West
English journalist, author
• 2001 Ann Sothern
American actress