Daily Almanac: September 01, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 7:14 a.m.
SET: 8:21 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 82 °F
LOW: 53 °F

Today is…

• College Colors Day
• National Chianti Day
• Pink Cadillac Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1985 The Wreck of the sunk ship Titanic is found in the North Atlantic Ocean. A French-American expedition group found the wreck, which sunk on 14 April 1912 on her first voyage from Southampton, UK, to New York City, U.S.
• 1952 Life magazine publishes parts of the Old Man And The Sea. One of American author Ernest Hemingway’s best-known works, the novel tells the story of an old man and his fishing misadventures. Within a few days of the publication of the excerpt, 5 million copies of the magazine had been sold.
• 1914 Passenger Pigeons become extinct. Martha, the last Passenger Pigeon known to man, died at the Cincinnati Zoo, Cincinnati, Ohio effectively making Passenger Pigeons extinct.

Births On This Day:

• 1957 Gloria Estefan

Cuban/American singer-songwriter, actress
• 1946 Roh Moo-hyun

South Korean politician, 16th President of South Korea

Deaths On This Day:

• 2013 Tommy Morrison

American boxer
• 1947 Frederick Russell Burnham

American soldier, adventurer