Daily Almanac: Feb. 4, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 7:49 a.m.
SET: 6:06 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 42 °F
LOW: 16 °F

Today is…

• Liberace Day
• National Hemp Day
• USO Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1789 George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President by the Electoral College
• 1945 World War II: The Yalta Conference between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea
• 1974 The IRA explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England; nine soldiers and three civilians are killed

Births On This Day

• 1902 Charles Lindbergh
American pilot and activist
• 1913 Rosa Parks
American activist

Deaths On This Day

• 1987 Liberace
American singer, pianist and actor
• 2006 Betty Friedan
American author and activist