18 days from April 17, 1940
would be
May 5, 1940 (Sunday)
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-05:00)
• Day numbers: 126
• Week number: 18
• Leap year: 1940 is a leap year.
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times for May 5, 1940 (Sunday)
• Sunrise time: 06:28 am
• Sunset time: 08:31 pm
• Day length: 14h 03m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase for May 5, 1940 (Sunday)
• Moon Phase: Waning Crescent
• Illumination: 2%
• Moon Age: 28.1 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
May 5, 1940 Holidays and National Days
May 5 in History
2000
The Sun, Earth, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn align – Earth’s moon is also almost in this alignment – leading to Doomsday predictions of massive natural disasters, although such a ‘grand confluence’ occurs about once in every century.
1987
Congress opens Iran-Contra hearings.
1969
Pulitzer Prize awarded to Norman Mailer for his ‘nonfiction novel’ Armies of the Night, an account of the 1967 anti-Vietnam War march on the Pentagon.
1968
U.S. Air Force planes hit Nhi Ha, South Vietnam in support of attacking infantrymen.
1965
173rd Airborne Brigade arrives in Bien Hoa-Vung, Vietnam, the first regular U.S. Army unit deployed to that country.
1961
Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space.
1945
Holland and Denmark are liberated from Nazi control.
1942
General Joseph Stilwell learns that the Japanese have cut his railway out of China and is forced to lead his troops into India.
1935
American Jesse Owens sets the long jump record.
1920
Anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are arrested for murder.
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