Today's Date
Sunday, September 15, 2024
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-04:00)
• Today's Date in numbers: 259
• Week number: 37
• Leap year: 2024 is a leap year.
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times Today
• Sunrise time: 07:13 am
• Sunset time: 07:43 pm
• Day length: 12h 30m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase Today
• Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous
• Illumination: 93%
• Moon Age: 12.28 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
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Today in History
2008
The largest Chapter 11 bankruptcy in US history is filed by Lehman Brothers financial services firm.
2004
National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces a lockout of the players union.
1998
MCI WorldCom begins operations after a landmark merger between World Com and MCI Communications.
1990
France announces it will send 4,000 troops to join those of other nations assembling in the Persian Gulf to protect Saudi Arabia and force Iraq’s dictator Saddam Hussein to withdraw troops from occupied Kuwait.
1983
Menachem Begin resigns as premier of Israel.
1981
Sandra Day O’Connor is unanimously approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee to become the first female justice on the US Supreme Court.
1971
The environmental group Greenpeace is founded.
1968
The USSR launches Zond 5, which becomes the first spaceship to orbit the moon and reenter Earth’s atmosphere.
1966
US President Lyndon Johnson urges Congress to adopt gun control legislation in the wake of Charles Whitman’s sniper attack from the University of Texas’s Texas Tower; in all, Whitman shot and killed 15 people before being shot dead himself by an Austin police officer.
1963
Four young African-American girls are killed by the bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama.
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