Today's Date
Friday, August 16, 2024
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-04:00)
• Today's Date in numbers: 229
• Week number: 33
• Leap year: 2024 is a leap year.
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times Today
• Sunrise time: 06:45 am
• Sunset time: 08:30 pm
• Day length: 13h 44m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase Today
• Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous
• Illumination: 89%
• Moon Age: 11.64 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
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Today in History
2012
In South Africa police fire on striking mine workers, killing at least 34.
1990
Iraq orders 2,500 Americans and 4,000 British nationals in Kuwait to Iraq, in the aftermath of Iraq’s invasion of that country.
1988
IBM introduces artificial intelligence software.
1987
The astrological alignment of the sun, moon and six planets marks what believers maintain is the dawning of a New Age.
1986
Sudanese rebels shoot down a Sudanese Airways plane, killing 57 people.
1984
The safe of the sunken ocean liner Andrea Doria is opened on TV after three decades, revealing cash and certificates but no other valuables.
1977
Elvis Presley dies of a heart attack in the upstairs bedroom suite area of his Graceland Mansion in Memphis, Tennessee.
1965
The Watts riots end in south-central Los Angeles after six days.
1945
Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright, who was taken prisoner by the Japanese on Corregidor on May 6, 1942, is released from a POW camp in Manchuria by U.S. troops.
1914
Liege, Belgium, falls to the German army.
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