2686 days before today

Today is December 23rd, 2024 (Monday), so 2686 days before today would be:

August 16th, 2017 (Wednesday)

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

• Day numbers: 228

• Week number: 33

• Leap year: 2017 is not a leap year

• Daylight Saving Time: Yes

• Sunrise time: 06:45 am

• Sunset time: 08:30 pm

• Day length: 13h 45m

• Source: suntoday.org

• Moon Phase: Waning Crescent

• Illumination: 28%

• Moon Age: 24.21 day(s)

• Source: mooninfo.org

August 16th, 2017 Holidays and National Days

August 16th, in History

2012
In South Africa police fire on striking mine workers, killing at least 34.
1990
Iraq orders 2,500 Americans and 4,000 British nationals in Kuwait to Iraq, in the aftermath of Iraq’s invasion of that country.
1988
IBM introduces artificial intelligence software.
1987
The astrological alignment of the sun, moon and six planets marks what believers maintain is the dawning of a New Age.
1986
Sudanese rebels shoot down a Sudanese Airways plane, killing 57 people.
1984
The safe of the sunken ocean liner Andrea Doria is opened on TV after three decades, revealing cash and certificates but no other valuables.
1977
Elvis Presley dies of a heart attack in the upstairs bedroom suite area of his Graceland Mansion in Memphis, Tennessee.
1965
The Watts riots end in south-central Los Angeles after six days.
1945
Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright, who was taken prisoner by the Japanese on Corregidor on May 6, 1942, is released from a POW camp in Manchuria by U.S. troops.
1914
Liege, Belgium, falls to the German army.

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