Daily Almanac: April 6, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 7:23 a.m.

SET: 8:17 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures

High: 60 °F

Low: 50 °F

Wacky Holiday Today

• National Twinkie Day

• Fresh Tomato Day

• World Table Tennis Day

What Happened On This Day

• 1896 The first modern Olympic Games are opened in Athens

• 1909 Robert Peary allegedly becomes the first person to reach the North Pole

• 1994 The Rwandan genocide begins

Births On This Day

• 1928 James Watson

American biologist, geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1926 Sergio Franchi

Italian/American singer, actor

Deaths On This Day

• 1199 Richard I of England

• 1992 Isaac Asimov

American chemist, author