Daily Almanac: Dec. 30, 2021
Sunrise/Sunset
RISE: 8:09 a.m.
SET: 5:31 p.m.
High/Low Temperatures
High: 51 °F
Low: 38 °F
Wacky Holiday Today
• Bacon Day
• Festival of Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
What Happened On This Day
• 2006 Saddam Hussein executed
• 1995 Lowest temperature ever recorded in the UK
• 2004 Highest barometric pressure recorded
Births On This Day
• 1984 LeBron James
American basketball player
• 1975 Tiger Woods
American golfer
Deaths On This Day
• 1970 Sonny Liston
American boxer
• 2006 Saddam Hussein
Iraqi politician