Daily Almanac: April 15, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset:

RISE: 7:09 a.m.     

SET: 8:26 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

High:  64 °F

Low:  43 °F

Wacky Holiday Today:

• Good Friday

• McDonald’s Day

• National Griper’s Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1994 The World Trade Organization is founded

• 1989 A small group of students initiates pro-democracy protest on Tiananmen Square in Beijing

• 1945 The German concentration camp Bergen-Belsen is liberated

Births On This Day:

• 1894 Nikita Khrushchev

Soviet politician, 7th Premier of the Soviet Union

• 1452 Leonardo da Vinci

Italian painter, sculptor, architect

Deaths On This Day:

• 1998 Pol Pot

Cambodian politician, 29th Prime Minister of Cambodia

• 1865 Abraham Lincoln

American lawyer, politician, 16th President of the United States