Today's Date
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-04:00)
• Today's Date in numbers: 227
• Week number: 33
• Leap year: 2024 is a leap year.
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times Today
• Sunrise time: 06:43 am
• Sunset time: 08:32 pm
• Day length: 13h 49m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase Today
• Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous
• Illumination: 72%
• Moon Age: 9.6 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
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Today in History
2010
First-ever Summer Youth Olympic Games open, in Singapore. Athletes must be 14–18 years old.
2007
Four coordinated suicide bomb attacks in Yazidi towns near Mosul, Iraq, kill more than 400 people.
1995
Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet in the long history of South Carolina’s state military college, The Citadel. Her presence is met with intense resistance, reportedly including death threats, and she will leave the school a week later.
1987
Mark McGwire hits his 49th home run of the season, setting the major league home run record for a rookie.
1973
The United States ends the “secret” bombing of Cambodia.
1969
British troops arrive in Northern Ireland in response to sectarian violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics.
1947
Pakistan becomes an independent country.
1945
Japan announces its unconditional surrender in World War II.
1942
Dwight D. Eisenhower is named the Anglo-American commander for Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa.
1917
The Chinese Parliament declares war on the Central Powers.
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