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Daily Almanac: May 11, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset:

RISE: 6:36 a.m.

SET: 8:52 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

High: 88 °F

Low: 67 °F

Today is…:

• Eat What You Want Day

• National Twilight Zone Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 868 The earliest surviving dated printed book is produced in China

• 1981 The musical Cats is premiered

Births On This Day:

• 1888 Irving Berlin

American composer

• 1904 Salvador Dalí

Spanish painter

Deaths On This Day:

• 1981 Bob Marley

Jamaican/American singer-songwriter, guitarist

• 1988 Kim Philby

British spy, Soviet double agent