Daily Almanac: March 16, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 7:57 a.m.

SET: 7:56 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures

High: 69 °F

Low: 43 °F

Wacky Holiday Today

• National Panda Day

• Freedom of Information Day

What Happened On This Day

• 1968 U.S. troops massacre hundreds of unarmed civilians in Vietnam

• 1960 Alfred Hitchcock’s movie Psycho is premiered

• 1926 Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket

Births On This Day

• 1912 Pat Nixon

American educator, 39th First Lady of the United States

• 1953 Richard Stallman

American computer programmer

Deaths On This Day

• 37 Tiberius

Roman Emperor

• 2003 Rachel Corrie

American activist