Daily Almanac: March 21, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset:
RISE: 7:44 a.m.
SET: 7:58 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:
HIGH: 59 °F
LOW: 32 °F

Today is…:

• Memory Day
• National Ag Day
• National Crunchy Taco Day

What Happened On This Day:
• 2006 Jack Dorsey sends the world’s first Twitter message, or tweet. The microblogging service revolutionized the communication and social networking landscape. In 2012, about 340 million tweets were posted per day.
• 1970 Earth Day is celebrated for the first time. The first edition was limited to some cities in the United States. Today, Earth Day is observed by about 1 billion people around the world.
• 1943 A plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler by suicide bomb fails. German Wehrmacht officer, Rudolf von Gersdorff, failed to blow up the dictator but managed to defuse his bombs just before they went off and avoid suspicion.

Births On This Day:

• 1806 Benito Juárez
Mexican lawyer, politician, 25th President of Mexico
• 1940 Solomon Burke
American singer-songwriter

Deaths On This Day:

• 1843 Guadalupe Victoria
Mexican politician, 1st President of Mexico
• 1656 James Ussher
Irish archbishop