159 days before November 14, 2017
would be
June 8, 2017 (Thursday)
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-05:00)
• Day numbers: 159
• Week number: 23
• Leap year: 2017 is not a leap year
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times for June 8, 2017 (Thursday)
• Sunrise time: 06:04 am
• Sunset time: 08:59 pm
• Day length: 14h 55m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase for June 8, 2017 (Thursday)
• Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous
• Illumination: 99%
• Moon Age: 14.23 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
June 8, 2017 Holidays and National Days
June 8 in History
1995
U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O’Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
1969
President Richard Nixon meets with President Thieu of South Vietnam to tell him 25,000 U.S. troops will pull out by August.
1968
James Earl Ray, the alleged assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., is captured at the London Airport.
1967
Israeli airplanes attack the USS Liberty, a surveillance ship, in the Mediterranean, killing 34 Navy crewmen.
1966
Gemini astronaut Gene Cernan attempts to become the first man to orbit the Earth untethered to a space capsule, but is unable to when he exhausts himself fitting into his rocket pack.
1965
President Lyndon Johnson authorizes commanders in Vietnam to commit U.S. ground forces to combat.
1953
The Supreme Court forbids segregated lunch counters in Washington, D.C.
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