159 days before May 21, 1941

would be

December 13, 1940 (Friday)

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

• Day numbers: 348

• Week number: 50

• Leap year: 1940 is a leap year.

• Daylight Saving Time: No

Sunrise, Sunset Times for December 13, 1940 (Friday)

• Sunrise time: 07:46 am

• Sunset time: 05:08 pm

• Day length: 09h 21m

• Source: suntoday.org

Moon Phase for December 13, 1940 (Friday)

• Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous

• Illumination: 99%

• Moon Age: 13.98 day(s)

• Source: mooninfo.org

December 13, 1940 Holidays and National Days

December 13 in History

2003
Deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein captured; he is found hiding in near his home town of Tikrit.
2001
Terrorists attach the Parliament of India Sansad; 15 people are killed, including the terrorists
1985
France sues the United States over the discovery of an AIDS serum.
1981
Polish labor leader Lech Walesa is arrested and the government decrees martial law, restricting civil rights and suspending operation of the independent trade union Solidarity.
1973
Great Britain cuts the work week to three days to save energy.
1972
Astronaut Gene Cernan climbs into his lunar lander on the moon and prepares to lift off. He is the last man to set foot on the moon.
1968
President Lyndon B. Johnson and Mexico’s President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz meet on a bridge at El Paso, Texas, to officiate at ceremonies returning the long-disputed El Chamizal area to the Mexican side of the border.
1951
After meeting with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, President Harry S Truman vows to purge all disloyal government workers.
1945
France and Britain agree to quit Syria and Lebanon.
1941
British forces launch an offensive in Libya.