Daily Almanac: Nov. 1, 2021

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 8:17 a.m.     

SET: 6:45 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures

High: 50 °F

Low: 35 °F

Wacky Holiday Today

• All Saints’ Day

• Prime Meridian Day

What Happened On This Day

• 1952 First large hydrogen bomb tested by the U.S.

• 1955 United Airlines Flight 629 blows up over Colorado

Births On This Day

• 1972 Jenny McCarthy

American model

• 1871 Stephen Crane

American journalist

Deaths On This Day

• 1972 Ezra Pound

American poet

• 2015 Fred Thompson

American politician