Daily Almanac: Feb. 01, 2022
Sunrise/Sunset
RISE: 7:56 a.m.
SET: 6:07 p.m.
High/Low Temperatures
High: 50 °F
Low: 29 °F
Wacky Holiday Today
• Change Your Password Day
• National Dark Chocolate Day
What Happened On This Day
• 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates on its way back to Earth
• 1968 Eddie Adams takes one of the Vietnam War’s best-known pictures
• 1884 The first fascicle of the “Oxford English Dictionary” is published
Births On This Day
• 1894 John Ford
American director
• 1901 Clark Gable
American actor
Deaths On This Day
• 1966 Buster Keaton
American actor, director, producer
• 1851 Mary Shelley English author