Daily Almanac: Dec. 30, 2021

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 8:09 a.m.

SET: 5:31 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures

High: 51 °F

Low: 38 °F

Wacky Holiday Today

• Bacon Day

• Festival of Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

What Happened On This Day

• 2006 Saddam Hussein executed

• 1995 Lowest temperature ever recorded in the UK

• 2004 Highest barometric pressure recorded

Births On This Day

• 1984 LeBron James

American basketball player

• 1975 Tiger Woods

American golfer

Deaths On This Day

• 1970 Sonny Liston

American boxer

• 2006 Saddam Hussein

Iraqi politician