Daily Almanac: April 06, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset:

RISE: 7:18 a.m.
SET: 8:14 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 54 °F
LOW: 41 °F

Today is…:

• Army Day
• Fresh Tomato Day
• National Burrito Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1909 Robert Peary allegedly becomes the first person to reach the North Pole. Peary’s claim has never been verified and is widely contested. The first undisputed journey to the North Pole was the 1948 Soviet Sever-2 expedition.
• 1965 The first commercial communications satellite is launched. Intelsat I, also known as Early Bird, facilitated the first live TV broadcast of a spacecraft splashdown when Gemini 6 landed in the Atlantic Ocean.
1994 The Rwandan genocide begins. The assassination of Rwandan President, Juvénal Habyarimana, and Burundian President, Cyprien Ntaryamira, triggered a mass slaughter of ethnic Tutsis with up to 1 million victims.

Births On This Day:

• 1928 James Watson
American biologist, geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1926 Sergio Franchi
Italian/American singer, actor

Deaths On This Day:

• 1992 Isaac Asimov

American chemist, author
• 1520 Raphael

Italian painter, architect