Daily Almanac: October 10, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset:
RISE: 7:51 a.m.
SET: 7:17 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:
HIGH: 62 °F
LOW: 38 °F

Today is…:
• National Angel Food Cake Day
• Own Business Day
• Powers of Ten Day

What Happened On This Day:
• 1967 Outer Space Treaty is Enforced. Also known as the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, it regulated the exploration and use of outer space and created the field of international space law. The treaty declared that outer space and all celestial bodies were the common heritage of mankind and could not be claimed by any one nation.
• 1964 The Tokyo Summer Olympics Begin. 93 countries participated in the first Olympics to be held in Asia. As a tribute to the horrors of the Second World War, Yoshinori Sakai, who was born in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the day an atomic bomb destroyed the city, was chosen as the torchbearer to light the Olympic flame during the opening. The Tokyo Olympics was also the first Olympic Games that used satellites – Syncom 3 in the United States and Relay 1 in Europe – to telecast the games. Some of the games were also broadcasted in color for the first time.
• 1933 United Airlines Boeing 247 explosion. In one of the oldest unsolved cases in aviation history, the airplane which was flying from Newark, New Jersey to Oakland California exploded mid-air and crashed near Chesterton, Indiana. All 7 passengers and crew members died in the incident. To this day, it is not known what and who caused the explosion.

Births On This Day:

• 1930 Harold Pinter

English playwright, screenwriter, director, actor, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1813 Giuseppe Verdi

Italian composer

Deaths On This Day:

• 1985 Orson Welles

American actor, director, producer, screenwriter

• 1875 Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

Russian poet, author, playwright