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Daily Almanac: April 8, 2022
Sunrise/Sunset
RISE: 7:20 a.m.
SET: 8:19 p.m.
High/Low Temperatures
High: 43°F
Low: 35°F
Wacky Holiday Today
• Dog Farting Awareness Day
• National Dive Bar Day
• Zoo Lovers Day
What Happened On This Day
• 2005 Over 4 million people pay their last respects to Pope John Paul II
• 1959 One of the first modern programming languages is created
Births On This Day
• 1918 Betty Ford
American wife of Gerald R. Ford, 40th First Lady of the United States
• 1859 Edmund Husserl
Austrian mathematician, philosopher
Deaths On This Day
• 1981 Omar Bradley
American general
• 1973 Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter, sculptor