Daily Almanac: August 21, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset:
RISE: 7:10 a.m.
SET: 8:27 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:
HIGH: 79 °F
LOW: 58 °F

Today is…:
• National Bow Tie Day
• Red Wine Day
• Radio Commercial Day

What Happened On This Day:
• 1963 Martin Luther King Makes His “I Have a Dream” Speech. The historic speech that was a call to end racism in the United States was given in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, a political rally organized by human and political rights groups. Over 200,000 people gathered in Washington DC to demand jobs and equality for African-Americans.

• 1937 Toyota Motor Corporation is Formed. The car company was first founded in 1933 as a subsidiary of the Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, Ltd. The division was headed by Kiichiro Toyoda, the son of the Toyota founder, Sakichi Toyoda.
• 1845 First Issue of Scientific American hits the newsstands. The science magazine was founded by American inventor and artist Rufus M. Porter. The magazine began as a weekly newsletter and is now the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States.

Births On This Day:

• 1965 Shania Twain

Canadian singer-songwriter

• 1749 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, scientist

Deaths On This Day:

• 1987 John Huston

American director
• 1955 Emmett Till

American murder victim