112 days from May 26, 1940

would be

September 15, 1940 (Sunday)

Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-05:00)

• Day numbers: 259

• Week number: 37

• Leap year: 1940 is a leap year.

• Daylight Saving Time: Yes

Sunrise, Sunset Times for September 15, 1940 (Sunday)

• Sunrise time: 07:14 am

• Sunset time: 07:42 pm

• Day length: 12h 28m

• Source: suntoday.org

Moon Phase for September 15, 1940 (Sunday)

• Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous

• Illumination: 99%

• Moon Age: 14.17 day(s)

• Source: mooninfo.org

September 15, 1940 Holidays and National Days

September 15 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.