Daily Almanac: August 22, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset:
RISE: 7:11 a.m.
SET: 8:25 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:
HIGH: 82 °F
LOW: 56 °F

Today is…:
• Lemon Juice Day
• Touch-A-Heart Tuesday
• Individual Rights Day

What Happened On This Day:
• 1966 Beatles’ Last Commercial Performance. Popular British rock group, the Beatles, played their last live concert in front of a paying public at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California. The band came together one last time for an unannounced performance in January 1969 on the rooftop of the Apple building in London.
• 1949 Soviet Union Tests its First Atomic Bomb. Code named Izdeliye 501 or First Lightening, the 22 kiloton atomic bomb was detonated at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan. It is thought that the bomb was a replica of the Fat Man bomb, the plans for which were brought to USSR by spies at the Manhattan project. The US called the Soviet bomb, Joe-1.
• 1831 Michael Faraday Discovers Electromagnetic Induction. Michael Faraday experimentally demonstrated that a changing magnetic field can induce a voltage in a conductor. The discovery of electromagnetic induction helped in the creation of electric generators, transformers, and even induction cook tops.

Births On This Day:

• 1936 John McCain

American politician

• 1915 Ingrid Bergman

Swedish actress

Deaths On This Day:

• 1982 Ingrid Bergman

Swedish actress
• 1877 Brigham Young

American religious leader 2nd