Daily Almanac: March 14, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset:
RISE: 7:55 a.m.
SET: 7:50 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:
HIGH: 39 °F
LOW: 25 °F

Today is…:

• Celebrate Scientists Day
• Crowdfunding Day
• Pi Day

What Happened On This Day:
• 1991 The Birmingham Six are released. The 6 men had been wrongly sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975 for the IRA Birmingham pub bombings.
• 1942 For the first time in history, a dying patient’s life is saved by penicillin. Although some claim that the pioneering trials at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, England resulted in the first cures using penicillin, Orvan Hess and John Bumstead are generally credited with the first documented successful treatment.
• 1910 The Lakeview Gusher causes the largest accidental oil spill in history. The spill lasted 18 months and 9 million barrels of crude oil were released.

Births On This Day:

• 1879 Albert Einstein
German/American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1933 Michael Caine
English actor, author

Deaths On This Day:

• 2014 Tony Benn
English politician
• 1883 Karl Marx
German philosopher