Daily Almanac: March 24, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 7:44 a.m.

SET: 8:04 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures

High: 47 °F

Low: 41 °F

Wacky Holiday Today

• National Cheesesteak Day

• National Cocktail Day

• World Tuberculosis Day

What Happened On This Day

• 1965 Millions watch NASA spacecraft Ranger 9 crash into the Moon

• 1882 Robert Koch discovers the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis

• 1989 Oil tanker Exxon Valdez runs aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska

Births On This Day

• 1874 Harry Houdini

Hungarian/American magician, actor

• 1930 Steve McQueen

American actor

Deaths On This Day

• 1882 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American poet

• 1603 Elizabeth I of England