Today's Date
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-04:00)
• Today's Date in numbers: 226
• Week number: 33
• Leap year: 2024 is a leap year.
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times Today
• Sunrise time: 06:42 am
• Sunset time: 08:34 pm
• Day length: 13h 51m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase Today
• Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous
• Illumination: 63%
• Moon Age: 8.63 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
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Today in History
1993
The US Court of Appeals rules Congress must save all emails.
1989
The wreckage of a plane that carried U.S. congressman Mickey Leland and others on a humanitarian mission is found on a mountain side in Ethiopia; there are no survivors.
1978
A bomb attack in Beirut during the Second Lebanese Civil War kills more than 150 people.
1963
A 17 year-old Buddhist monk burns himself to death in Saigon, South Vietnam.
1961
Construction begins on the Berlin Wall during the night.
1948
During the Berlin Airlift, the weather over Berlin becomes so stormy that American planes have their most difficult day landing supplies. They deem it ‘Black Friday.’
1932
Adolf Hitler refuses to serve as Franz Von Papen’s vice chancellor.
1910
British nurse Florence Nightingale, famous for her care of British soldiers during the Crimean War, dies.
1898
Manila, the capital of the Philippines, falls to the U.S. Army.
1892
The first issue of the Afro American newspaper is published in Baltimore, Maryland.
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