Daily Almanac: Nov. 10, 2022
Sunrise/Sunset:
RISE: 7:23 a.m.
SET: 5:31 p.m.
High/Low Temperatures:
HIGH: 75 °F
LOW: 51 °F
Today is…:
• Area Code Day
• USMC Day
• Sesame Street Day
What Happened On This Day:
• 1954 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the Iwo Jima memorial in Arlington Ridge Park
• 1958 The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston
• 1975 The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board
Births On This Day:
• 1483 Martin Luther
German monk, priest and leader of the Protestant Reformation
• 1968 Tracy Morgan
American comedian and actor
Deaths On This Day:
• 1982 Leonid Brezhnev
Ukrainian-Russian general, politician and 4th Head of State of the Soviet Union
• 2007 Norman Mailer
American author and journalist