2566 days before today

Today is November 21st, 2024 (Thursday), so 2566 days before today would be:

November 12th, 2017 (Sunday)

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

• Day numbers: 316

• Week number: 45

• Leap year: 2017 is not a leap year

• Daylight Saving Time: No

• Sunrise time: 07:14 am

• Sunset time: 05:20 pm

• Day length: 10h 06m

• Source: suntoday.org

• Moon Phase: Waning Crescent

• Illumination: 27%

• Moon Age: 24.32 day(s)

• Source: mooninfo.org

November 12th, 2017 Holidays and National Days

November 12th, in History

2003
The first Italians to die in the Iraq War are among 23 fatalities from a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base in Nasiriya, iraq.
2003
Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world speed record (311 mph or 501 kph) for commercial railway systems.
1997
Ramzi Yousef convicted of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
1996
A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 collides with a Kazakh Illyushin II-76 cargo plane near New Delhi, killing 349. It is the deadliest mid-air collision to date (2013) and third-deadliest aircraft accident.
1990
Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan.
1990
Sir Timothy John 'Tim' Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, publishes a formal proposal for the creation of the World Wide Web.
1987
Boris Yeltsin is fired as head of Moscow’s Communist Party for criticizing the slow pace of reform.
1971
President Richard Nixon announces the withdrawal of about 45,000 U.S. troops from Vietnam by February.
1968
The U.S. Supreme Court voids an Arkansas law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools.
1960
The satellite Discoverer XVII is launched into orbit from California’s Vandenberg AFB.