Today's Date
Sunday, January 18, 2026
Time Zone: America/Chicago (GMT-06:00)
• Today's Date in numbers: 18
• Week number: 3
• Leap year: No - Next is 2028
• Daylight Saving Time: No
Sunrise, Sunset Times Today
• Sunrise time: 08:01 am
• Sunset time: 05:44 pm
• Day length: 09h 42m
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Moon Phase Today
• Moon Phase: New Moon - 01:53 pm
• Illumination: 0%
• Moon Age: 0.18 day(s)
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Today in History
1991
Iraq starts firing Scud missiles at Israeli cities.
1978
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) isolate the cause of Legionnaire's disease.
1964
Plans are disclosed for the World Trade Center in New York.
1962
The United States begins spraying foliage with herbicides in South Vietnam, in order to reveal the whereabouts of Vietcong guerrillas.
1948
Gandhi breaks a 121-hour fast after halting Muslim-Hindu riots.
1945
The German Army launches its second attempt to relieve the besieged city of Budapest from the advancing Red Army.
1942
General MacArthur repels the Japanese in Bataan. The United States takes the lead in the Far East war criminal trials.
1916
The Russians force the Turkish 3rd Army back to Erzurum.
1910
Aviator Eugene Ely performs his first successful take off and landing from a ship in San Francisco.
1902
The Isthmus Canal Commission in Washington shifts its support from Nicaragua to Panama as a favored canal site.
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