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Daily Almanac: Nov. 16, 2021

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 7:34 a.m.

SET: 5:30 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures

High: 58 °F

Low: 34 °F

Wacky Holiday Today

• National Button Day

• National Fast Food Day

What Happened On This Day

• 1940 Warsaw ghetto sealed

• 2001 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone released

Births On This Day

• 1930 Chinua Achebe

Nigerian author, poet, academic

• 1952 Shigeru Miyamoto

Japanese video game designer, created Mario, The Legend of Zelda

Deaths On This Day

• 1960 Clark Gable

American actor

• 2006 Milton Friedman

American economist, Nobel Prize laureate