24852 days before today
Today is August 19th, 2024 (Monday), so 24852 days before today would be:
August 4th, 1956 (Saturday)
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-04:00)
Number of days before today:
• Day numbers: 217
• Week number: 31
• Leap year: 1956 is a leap year.
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
August 4th, 1956 Holidays and National Days
August 4th, in History
2007
NASA launches the Phoenix spacecraft on a mission to Mars.
1988
The US Senate votes to give each Japanese-American who was interned during WWII $20,000 compensation and an apology.
1979
President Jimmy Carter establishes the Department of Energy.
1972
Arthur Bremer is sentenced to 63 years for shooting Alabama governor George Wallace, later reduced to 53 years.
1971
The U.S. launches the first satellite into lunar orbit from a manned spacecraft (Apollo 15).
1964
The bodies of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James E. Chaney, are discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam.
1964
The U.S.S. Maddox and Turner Joy exchange fire with North Vietnamese patrol boats.
1952
Helicopters from the U.S. Air Force Air Rescue Service land in Germany, completing the first transatlantic flight by helicopter in 51 hours and 55 minutes of flight time.
1944
RAF pilot T. D. Dean becomes the first pilot to destroy a V-1 buzz bomb when he tips the pilotless craft’s wing, sending it off course.
1942
The British government charges that Mohandas Gandhi and his All-Indian Congress Party favor “appeasement” with Japan.
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