1557 days before today
Today is November 22nd, 2024 (Friday), so 1557 days before today would be:
August 18th, 2020 (Tuesday)
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-05:00)
Number of days before today:
• Day numbers: 231
• Week number: 34
• Leap year: 2020 is a leap year.
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
August 18th, 2020 Holidays and National Days
August 18th, in History
2011
Gold hits a record price of $1,826 per ounce.
2010
Edelmiro Cavazos, mayor of Santiago, Nuevo Leon, is found handcuffed, blindfolded and dead following his abduction three days earlier. He had championed crackdowns on organized crime and police corruption.
1993
Historic Kapelbrug (chapel bridge) in Luzern, Switzerland, burns, destroying 147 of its decorative paintings. It was built in 1365.
1992
Dennis Rader, the BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) killer receives 10 consecutive life sentences. He had terrorized Wichita, Kansas, murdering 10 people between 1974 and 1991.
1991
A group of hard-line communist leaders unhappy with the drift toward the collapse of the Soviet Union seize control of the government in Moscow and place President Mikhail S. Gorbachev under house arrest
1988
Republican Convention in New Orleans nominate the George H.W. Bush-Dan Quayle ticket.
1987
Ohio nurse Donald Harvey sentenced to triple life terms for poisoning 24 patients.
1982
Pete Rose sets record with his 13,941st plate appearance.
1979
Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini demands a “Saint War” against Kurds.
1974
Luna 24, the USSR’s final major lunar exploration mission, soft-lands on moon.
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