Daily Almanac: August 30, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset:

RISE: 7:12 a.m.
SET: 8:24 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 76 °F
LOW: 59 °F

Today is…:

• Frankenstein Day
• National Beach Day
• Slinky Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1983 Guion Stewart Bluford is launched into Space. Bluford, a fighter pilot for the US Air Force and part of the crew of STS-8, the third flight of NASA’s space shuttle Challenger, was the first African-American to go into space.
• 1967 First African-American justice is Appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The United States Senate confirmed Thurgood Marshall to the country’s highest court of justice. Marshall was also the first African-American to have held the post of Solicitor General of the United States.
• 1963 Telephone hotline Between Washington DC and Moscow is Established. The system of direct communication between the heads of the then Soviet Union and now Russia and the United States was set up during the height of the Cold War when the Cuban Missile Crisis almost led the two countries to the brink of an active war. The hotline was used for the first time in 1967 during the 6-day long Arab–Israeli War.

Births On This Day:

• 1930 Warren Buffett

American businessman, philanthropist
• 1893 Huey Long

American politician

Deaths On This Day:

• 2013 Seamus Heaney

Irish poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
• 2003 Charles Bronson

American actor