15427 days before today

Today is November 24th, 2024 (Sunday), so 15427 days before today would be:

August 30th, 1982 (Monday)

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

Number of days before today:

• Day numbers: 242

• Week number: 35

• Leap year: 1982 is not a leap year

• Daylight Saving Time: Yes

• Sunrise time: 06:58 am

• Sunset time: 08:09 pm

• Day length: 13h 11m

• Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous

• Illumination: 88%

• Moon Age: 11.45 day(s)

August 30th, 1982 Holidays and National Days

1986

KGB arrests journalist Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report) on a charge of spying and hold him for 13 days.

1983

Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford, Jr., becomes the first African-American astronaut to travel in space.

1983

Eiffel Tower welcomes its 150 millionth visitor, 33-year-old Parisian Jacqueline Martinez.

1982

Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) forced out of Lebanon after 10 years in Beirut during Lebanese Civil War.

1979

First recorded instance of a comet (Howard-Koomur-Michels) hitting the sun; the energy released is equal to approximately 1 million hydrogen bombs.

1976

Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of Today Show.

1967

US Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as first African-American Supreme Court justice.

1963

Hot Line communications link installed between Moscow and Washington, DC.

1961

President John F. Kennedy appoints General Lucius D. Clay as his personal representative in Berlin.

1944

Ploesti, the center of the Rumanian oil industry, falls to Soviet troops.