Daily Almanac: March 3, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 7:18 a.m.

SET: 6:42 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures

High: 42 °F

Low: 33 °F

Wacky Holiday Today

• National Anthem Day

• World Wildlife Day

What Happened On This Day

• 1991 Footage of Los Angeles police officers severely beating Rodney King causes a global outcry

• 1985 The U.K. miners’ strike ends

Births On This Day

• 1847 Alexander Graham Bell

Scottish/American engineer, invented the Telephone

• 1977 Ronan Keating

Irish singer-songwriter, actor

Deaths On This Day

• 1987 Danny Kaye

American actor

• 1703 Robert Hooke

English scientist