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August 8, 2024 (Thursday)
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-05:00)
• Day numbers: 221
• Week number: 32
• Leap year: 2024 is a leap year.
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times for August 8, 2024 (Thursday)
• Sunrise time: 06:37 am
• Sunset time: 08:40 pm
• Day length: 14h 02m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase for August 8, 2024 (Thursday)
• Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent
• Illumination: 17%
• Moon Age: 4.09 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
August 8, 2024 Holidays and National Days
August 8 in History
2008
Georgia invades South Ossetia, touching off a five-day war between Georgia and Russia.
2007
An EF2 tornado hits Brooklyn, New York, the first in that borough since 1889.
2000
The Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to surface, 136 years after it sank following its successful attack on USS Housatonic in the outer harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
1990
Iraq annexes the state of Kuwait as its 19th province, six days after Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait.
1989
NASA Space Shuttle Columbia begins its eighth flight, NASA’s 30th shuttle mission.
1988
Angola, Cuba and South Africa sign a cease-fire treaty in the border war that began in 1966.
1983
Brigadier General Efrain Rios Montt is deposed as president of Guatemala in the country’s second military coup in 17 months.
1979
Iraq’s president Saddam Hussein executes 22 political opponents.
1978
Pioneer-Venus 2 is launched to probe the atmosphere of Venus.
1974
President Richard Nixon resigns from the presidency as a result of the Watergate scandal.
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