Daily Almanac: Dec. 29, 2021

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 8:09 a.m.

SET: 5:31 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures

High: 50 °F

Low: 38 °F

Wacky Holiday Today

• National Hero Day

• Still Need to Do Day

What Happened On This Day

• 1937 Ireland established

• 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre kills over 150 Lakota tribe members

Births On This Day

• 1972 Jude Law

English actor

• 1808 Andrew Johnson

17th President of the U.S.

Deaths On This Day

• 1929 Wilhelm Maybach

German businessman

• 1916 Grigori Rasputin

Russian monk