15 days before January 8, 1980
would be
December 24, 1979 (Monday)
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-05:00)
• Day numbers: 358
• Week number: 52
• Leap year: 1979 is not a leap year
• Daylight Saving Time: No
Sunrise, Sunset Times for December 24, 1979 (Monday)
• Sunrise time: 07:52 am
• Sunset time: 05:12 pm
• Day length: 09h 19m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase for December 24, 1979 (Monday)
• Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent
• Illumination: 36%
• Moon Age: 6.08 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
December 24, 1979 Holidays and National Days
December 24 in History
2005
Chad declares a state of war against Sudan in the wake of the Dec. 18 attack on the town of Adre, in which approximately 100 people were killed.
1974
An oil tanker’s spill pollutes 1,600 square miles of Japan’s Inland Sea.
1974
Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, destroying more than 70 percent of the city’s buildings, including 80 percent of its houses.
1972
Hanoi bars all peace talks with the United States until U.S. air raids over North Vietnam stop.
1970
Nine GIs are killed and nine are wounded by friendly fire in Vietnam.
1968
The first pictures of an Earth-rise over the moon are seen as the crew of Apollo 8 orbits the moon.
1967
The Greek Junta frees ex-Premier Papandreou.
1966
A Soviet research vehicle soft-lands on the moon.
1964
The U.S. headquarters in Saigon is hit by a bomb killing two officers.
1963
New York’s Idlewild Airport is renamed JFK Airport in honor of the murdered President Kennedy.
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