Daily Almanac: April 11, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset:
RISE: 7:14 a.m.
SET: 8:23 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:
HIGH: 76 °F
LOW: 42 °F

Today is…:

• Barbershop Quartet Day
• National Pet Day
• Submarine Day

What Happened On This Day:
• 2006 President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has enriched uranium. The Iranian nuclear program has become a source of great controversy.
• 2006 Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano is arrested. Provenzano was one of Cosa Nostra’s central figures. The mafioso was arrested near Corleone, Sicily after 40 years on the run.
• 1961 The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins. The ex-Nazi was one of the main organizers of the Holocaust, in which millions of people were slaughtered. He was hanged for war crimes in 1962.

Births On This Day:

• 1960 Jeremy Clarkson
English journalist
• 1987 Joss Stone
English singer-songwriter, actress

Deaths On This Day:

• 1987 Primo Levi
Italian chemist, author
• 2007 Kurt Vonnegut
American author