Daily Almanac: June 08, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset:

RISE: 6:17 a.m.
SET: 9:16 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 76 °F
LOW: 52 °F

Today is…:

• Best Friends Day
• Thomas Paine Day
• Jelly-Filled Doughnut Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1987 New Zealand becomes a nuclear-free zone. The New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987 barred any nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed ships from entering the country. New Zealand was the first country to legislate towards a nuclear-free zone in the 1950s.

• 1972 Nick Út takes his famous “napalm girl” photo. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image officially entitled “The Terror of War” depicts nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc and other Vietnamese children fleeing a napalm attack. It has become one of the best-known symbols for the indescribable sufferings in armed conflicts.
• 1949 George Orwell publishes Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell’s nightmarish description of a totalitarian society set in the year 1984 is one of the most significant works of English literature and one of the best-known novels of all time. The phrase, Big Brother is watching you, stems from this work.

Births On This Day:

• 1867 Frank Lloyd Wright
American architect, designed the Price Tower, Fallingwater

• 1916 Francis Crick

English biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths On This Day:

• 632 Muhammad

Islamic prophet
• 1809 Thomas Paine

English/American theorist, author