Daily Almanac: Dec. 6, 2021

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 7:56 a.m.     

SET: 5:22 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures

High: 39 °F

Low: 34 °F

Wacky Holiday Today

• Miners’ Day

• Walt Disney Day

What Happened On This Day

• 1967 World’s first pediatric heart transplant

• 1922 Establishment of the Irish Free State

Births On This Day

• 1967 Judd Apatow

American director

• 1941 Richard Speck

American murderer

Deaths On This Day

• 1988 Roy Orbison

American singer-songwriter

• 1889 Jefferson Davis

American colonel