Daily Almanac: Feb. 25, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 7:21 a.m.
SET: 6:32 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 49 °F
LOW: 30 °F

Today is…

• National Clam Chowder Day
• Open That Bottle Night
• Quiet Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1964 Muhammad Ali becomes world heavyweight champion.
• 1991 The Warsaw Pact is disbanded. Following the end of the Cold War, the defense treaty between 8 communist states had lost its purpose. It had been signed in 1955 as an antagonist of NATO.
• 1994 An Israeli doctor kills 30 unarmed Palestinians in the Mosque of Abraham. The massacre by right-wing extremist Baruch Goldstein was widely condemned, also in Israel.

Births On This Day

• 1873 Enrico Caruso
Italian tenor
• 1917 Anthony Burgess
English author

Deaths On This Day

• 1970 Mark Rothko
Latvian/American painter
• 1975 Elijah Muhammad
American religious leader