Daily Almanac: Feb. 3, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 7:50 a.m.
SET: 6:05 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 21 °F
LOW: 14 °F

Today is…

• American Painters Day
• Elmo’s Birthday
• National Wear Red Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1488 Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south
• 1870 The Fifteenth Amendment to Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to male citizens regardless of race
• 1959 Musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson are killed in a plane crash along with the pilot near Clear Lake, Iowa

Births On This Day:

• 1809 Felix Mendelssohn
German pianist, composer and conductor
• 1874 Gertrude Stein
American poet and art collector

Deaths On This Day:

• 1468 Johannes Gutenberg
German publisher who invented the Printing press
• 1924 Woodrow Wilson
American politician, 28th President and Nobel Prize laureate