Daily Almanac: July 21, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 6:34 a.m.
SET: 9:13 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 80 °F
LOW: 63 °F

Today is…

• Legal Drinking Age Day
• National Junk Food Day
• National Be Someone Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 2011 STS-135 lands. This space shuttle was the 135th and the last space shuttle flight of American Space Shuttle program.
• 1983 Lowest temperature ever measured on Earth. Vostok Station, a Russian station on Antarctica experienced the lowest temperatures ever measured in recorded human history. The temperatures fell to −128.6 °F (−89.2 °C)
• 1969 First person walks on the Moon. Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon. He stepped on the Moon’s surface almost 7 hours after Apollo 11, the space craft that carried them, landed on the Sea of Traquility on the Moon. After stepping on the Moon, Armstrong uttered his famous words, “one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.”

Births On This Day:

• 1948 Cat Stevens

English singer-songwriter, musician
• 1899 Ernest Hemingway

American writer, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths On This Day:

• 1982 Dave Garroway

American journalist
• 1796 Robert Burns

Scottish poet