Daily Almanac: Oct. 27, 2021

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 8:11 a.m.

SET: 6:51 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures

High: 58°F

Low: 37°F

Wacky Holiday Today

• American Beer Day

• Lung Health Day

What Happened On This Day

• 1682 City of Philadelphia Founded

• 1904 New York City Subway Begins Operations

Births On This Day

• 1858 Theodore Roosevelt

26th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1932 Sylvia Plath

American poet

Deaths On This Day

• 939 Æthelstan

English king

• 2013 Lou Reed

American singer-songwriter, guitarist