2855 days before today

Today is December 22nd, 2024 (Sunday), so 2855 days before today would be:

February 27th, 2017 (Monday)

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

• Day numbers: 58

• Week number: 9

• Leap year: 2017 is not a leap year

• Daylight Saving Time: No

• Sunrise time: 07:10 am

• Sunset time: 06:21 pm

• Day length: 11h 10m

• Source: suntoday.org

• Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent

• Illumination: 2%

• Moon Age: 1.45 day(s)

• Source: mooninfo.org

February 27th, 2017 Holidays and National Days

February 27th, in History

1991
Coalition forces liberate Kuwait after seven months of occupation by the Iraqi army.
1988
Debi Thomas becomes the first African American to win a medal at the Winter Olympics.
1973
U.S. Supreme Court rules that a Virginia pool club can’t bar residents because of color.
1969
Thousands of students protest President Richard Nixon‘s arrival in Rome.
1963
The Soviet Union says that 10,000 troops will remain in Cuba.
1962
South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem is unharmed as two planes bomb the presidential palace in Saigon.
1953
F-84 Thunderjets raid North Korean base on Yalu River.
1942
British Commandos raid a German radar station at Bruneval on the French coast.
1939
The Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes.