Daily Almanac: March 07, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 7:12 a.m.     

SET: 6:46 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures

High: 42 °F

Low: 42 °F

Wacky Holiday Today

• National Cereal Day

• Plant Power Day

What Happened On This Day

• 1926 The first two-way transatlantic telephone takes place

• 1945 U.S. troops capture the Ludendorff Bridge and cross the Rhine at Remagen

Births On This Day

• 1970 Rachel Weisz

English actress

• 1875 Maurice Ravel

French composer

Deaths On This Day

• 1999 Stanley Kubrick

American director

• 1274 Saint Thomas Aquinas

Italian priest, philosopher