Daily Almanac: Oct. 30, 2021

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 8:15 a.m.     

SET: 6:47 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures

High: 56 °F

Low: 48 °F

Wacky Holiday Today

• National Candy Corn Day

• Buy a Doughnut Day

What Happened On This Day

• 1961 Biggest Bomb in History is Detonated

• 2014 Sweden Recognizes Palestine

Births On This Day

• 1735 John Adams

American politician, 2nd President of the United States

• 1885 Ezra Pound

American poet

Deaths On This Day

• 1987 Joseph Campbell

American author

• 2006 Clifford Geertz

American anthropologist