Daily Almanac: Oct. 16, 2021

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 7:59 a.m.     

SET: 7:06 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures

High: 72 °F

Low: 47 °F

Wacky Holiday Today

• I Love Yarn Day

• International Sloth Day

What Happened On This Day

• 1986 First Person to Scale all Eight-Thousanders

• 1923 The Walt Disney Company is Founded

Births On This Day

• 1977 John Mayer

American singer-songwriter

• 1925 Angela Lansbury

English/American actress

Deaths On This Day

• 2011 Dan Wheldon

English race car driver

• 1793 Marie Antoinette

Wife of Louis XVI of France