Daily Almanac: Sept. 2, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset:

RISE: 7:12 a.m.

SET: 8:13 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

High: 88 °F

Low: 64 °F

Today is…:

• Calendar Adjustment Day

• National Food Bank Day

• World Coconut Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1666 The Great Fire of London begins

• 1752 U.K. adopts the Gregorian Calendar

• 1789 U.S. Department of the Treasury is formed

Births On This Day:

• 1913 Bill Shankly

Scottish footballer, manager

• 1964 Keanu Reeves

Canadian actor

Deaths On This Day:

• 1969 Ho Chi Minh

Vietnamese politician, 1st President of Vietnam

• 1973 J. R. R. Tolkien

English philologist, author