Daily Almanac: March 26, 2021

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 7:41 a.m.     

SET: 8:06 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures

High: 38 °F

Low: 31 °F

Wacky Holiday Today

• Purple Day

• Brothers’ and Sisters’ day

• Solitude Day

What Happened On This Day

• 1975 The Biological Weapons Convention comes into effect

• 1979 The Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty is signed

• 2000 Vladimir Putin is elected President of Russia

Births On This Day

• 1874 Robert Frost

American poet, playwright

• 1944 Diana Ross

American singer, actress

Deaths On This Day

• 1892 Walt Whitman

American poet, author

• 1827 Ludwig van Beethoven

German pianist, composer