Daily Almanac: June 3, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 6:18 a.m.
SET: 9:13 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 92 °F
LOW: 66 °F

Today is…

• Drawing Day
• National Bubbly Day
• National Egg Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 2013 The trial against whistleblower Bradley Manning begins. The American soldier, a trans woman now called Chelsea Manning, was responsible for leaking classified videos documenting U.S. war atrocities during the Iraq War. She was sentenced to 35 years confinement.
• 1973 The world’s first supersonic airliner crashes. The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144, sometimes referred to as Concordski, disintegrated in mid-air during the 1973 Paris Air Show. 14 people died.
• 1492 Martin Behaim presents the world’s first globe. The German geographer called his terrestrial globe Erdapfel, or Earth Apple. It is kept in a darkened room at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, Germany.

Births On This Day

• 1926 Allen Ginsberg

American poet
• 1808 Jefferson Davis

American colonel, politician, President of the Confederate States of America

Deaths On This Day

• 2016 Muhammad Ali

American boxer

• 1924 Franz Kafka

Czech/German writer