Daily Almanac: March 28, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset:
RISE: 7:32 a.m.
SET: 8:05 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:
HIGH: 48 °F
LOW: 32 °F

Today is…:

• Children’s Picture Book Day
• National Hot Tub Day
• Respect Your Cat Day

What Happened On This Day:
• 1990 Jesse Owens receives the Congressional Gold Medal. The African American athlete dominated the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, which were held during the reign of Adolf Hitler’s racist nazi regime.
• 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear power plant experiences a partial meltdown and radioactive leak. The coolant leak was the worst commercial nuclear accident in the United States.
• 1963 Alfred Hitchcock’s movie The Birds is released. The film about a swarm of birds wreaking havoc in Bodega Bay, California has become a classic of the horror movie genre.

Births On This Day:

• 1483 Raphael
Italian painter, architect
• 1955 Reba McEntire
American singer-songwriter, producer, actress

Deaths On This Day:

• 1941 Virginia Woolf
English author, critic
• 1969 Dwight D. Eisenhower
American general, politician, 34th President of the United States