Daily Almanac: Feb. 15, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 7:40 a.m.

SET: 6:24 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures

High: 45 °F

Low: 20 °F

Wacky Holiday Today

• National Hippo Day

• Singles Awareness Day

What Happened On This Day

• 2001 The first draft of the human genome is published

• 2003 The largest peace demonstration in history takes place

Births On This Day

• 1564 Galileo Galilei

Italian astronomer, physicist

• 1934 Graham Kennedy

Australian actor

Deaths On This Day

• 2005 Samuel T. Francis

American journalist

• 1988 Richard Feynman

American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate