Daily Almanac: Aug. 2, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset:

RISE: 6:43 a.m.

SET: 8:56 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

High: 91 °F

Low: 69 °F

Today is…:

• Dinosaurs Day

• National Coloring Book Day

• National Night Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1870 World’s first underground railway opened

• 1945 The Potsdam Conference which is convened to negotiate the terms of the end of WW II comes to an end

• 1990 Invasion of Kuwait begins

Births On This Day:

• 1892 Jack Warner

Canadian/American film producer

• 1964 Mary-Louise Parker

American actress

Deaths On This Day:

• 1922 Alexander Graham Bell

Scottish/American engineer, invented the Telephone

• 1923 Warren G. Harding

American politician, 29th President of the U.S.