Daily Almanac: Jan. 27, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 8:00 a.m.

SET: 6:01 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures

High: 35 °F

Low: 11 °F

Wacky Holiday Today

• International Holocaust Remembrance Day

• National Chocolate Cake Day

• World Breast Pumping Day

What Happened On This Day

• 1945 Soviet forces liberate Auschwitz

• 1967 3 astronauts die in a cabin fire while preparing for the Apollo 1 mission

Births On This Day

• 1832 Lewis Carroll

English author

• 1944 Mairead Maguire

Irish activist, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths On This Day

• 2014 Pete Seeger

American singer-songwriter, guitarist

• 2009 John Updike

American author, poet, critic