Daily Almanac: Oct. 18, 2022

By The Times of Noblesville | October 17, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset:
RISE: 7:57 a.m.
SET: 6:59 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:
HIGH: 45 °F
LOW: 31 °F

Today is…:

• Simchat Torah
• Information Overload Awareness Day
• National No Beard Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1851 Moby Dick is published for the first time
• 1867 Alaska becomes a part of the United States
• 1984 Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk

Births On This Day:

• 1919 Pierre TrudeauCanadian politician and 15th Prime Minister of Canada
• 1987 Zac Efron
American actor and singer

Deaths On This Day:

• 1931 Thomas Edison
American businessman who invented the light bulb and phonograph
• 1973 Leo Strauss
German/American philosopher

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