Daily Almanac: Dec. 10, 2021
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Sunrise/Sunset
RISE: 7:59 a.m.
SET: 5:22 p.m.
High/Low Temperatures
High: 63 °F
Low: 45 °F
Wacky Holiday Today
• Human Rights Day
• Nobel Prize Day
What Happened On This Day
• 2001 Release of the first film in the Lord of the Rings trilogy
• 1817 Mississippi becomes 20th state
Births On This Day
• 1830 Emily Dickinson
American poet
• 1815 Ada Lovelace
English mathematician
Deaths On This Day
• 1967 Otis Redding
American singer-songwriter
• 1896 Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist