Daily Almanac: May 08, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset:
RISE: 6:37 a.m.
SET: 8:50 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:
HIGH: 79 °F
LOW: 56 °F

Today is…:
• Free Trade Day
• Iris Day
• No Socks Day

What Happened On This Day:
• 1984 Moscow announces that the USSR will not take part in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Several other countries, such as Cuba, Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Ethiopia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Vietnam joined the boycott. 4 years earlier, the United States had not sent any athletes to the Summer Olympics in Moscow.
• 1970 The Beatles release the album Let It Be. The recording was the last studio album ever released by the legendary English rock band.
• 1886 Coca-Cola is invented. According to legend, Dr. John Styth Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist, produced the syrup in a brass pot in his backyard. It was first intended as a patent medicine. Today, Coca-Cola is one of the world’s most popular soft drinks and one of the most recognized trademarks.

Births On This Day:

• 1884 Harry S. Truman
33rd President of the United States

• 1926 David Attenborough
English television host

Deaths On This Day:

• 1903 Paul Gauguin
French painter
• 1988 Robert A. Heinlein
American writer