Today's Date
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-04:00)
• Today's Date in numbers: 289
• Week number: 42
• Leap year: 2024 is a leap year.
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times Today
• Sunrise time: 07:42 am
• Sunset time: 06:55 pm
• Day length: 11h 12m
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Moon Phase Today
• Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous
• Illumination: 96%
• Moon Age: 13 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
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Today in History
2011
Protests break out in countries around the globe, under the slogan “United for Global Democracy.”
2008
Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 733.08 points, the second-largest percentage drop in the Dow’s history.
2007
New Zealand police arrest 17 people believed to be part of a paramilitary training camp.
2003
China launches its first manned space mission, Shenzhou I.
1997
Andy Green of the UK becomes the first person to break the sound barrier in the Earth’s atmosphere, driving the ThrustSSC supersonic car to a record 763 mph (1,228 km/h).
1990
Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the USSR, receives Nobel Peace Prize for his work in making his country more open and reducing Cold War tensions.
1989
Canadian hockey player Wayne Gretzky makes his 1,851st goal, breaking the all-time scoring record in the National Hockey League.
1987
The Great Storm of 1987 strikes the UK and Europe during the night of Oct 15-16, killing over 20 people and causing widespread damage.
1969
Rallies for The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam draw over 2 million demonstrators across the US, a quarter million of them in the nation’s capital.
1966
Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale establish the Black Panther Party, an African-American revolutionary socialist political group, in the US.
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