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Daily Almanac: Dec. 28, 2021
Sunrise/Sunset
RISE: 8:09 a.m.
SET: 5:31 p.m.
High/Low Temperatures
High: 46 °F
Low: 38 °F
Wacky Holiday Today
• Holy Innocents’ Day
• Call a Friend Day
What Happened On This Day
• 2007 Nepal abolishes monarchy
• 1968 Israel raid on Beirut Airport
• 1836 South Australia becomes a British colony
Births On This Day
• 1934 Maggie Smith
English actress
• 1856 Woodrow Wilson
28th President of the U.S.
Deaths On This Day
• 2004 Susan Sontag
American author
• 1984 Sam Peckinpah
American director