47 days before February 4, 1979

would be

December 19, 1978 (Tuesday)

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

• Day numbers: 353

• Week number: 51

• Leap year: 1978 is not a leap year

• Daylight Saving Time: No

Sunrise, Sunset Times for December 19, 1978 (Tuesday)

• Sunrise time: 07:50 am

• Sunset time: 05:10 pm

• Day length: 09h 20m

• Source: suntoday.org

Moon Phase for December 19, 1978 (Tuesday)

• Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous

• Illumination: 74%

• Moon Age: 19.69 day(s)

• Source: mooninfo.org

December 19, 1978 Holidays and National Days

December 19 in History

2012
Park Geun-hye elected President of South Korea, the nation’s first female chief executive.
2001
The highest barometric pressure ever recorded (1085.6 hPa, 32.06 inHg) occurs at Tosontsengel, Khovsgol, Mongolia.
2001
Rioting begins in Buenos Aires, Argentina, during the country’s economic crisis.
1998
President Bill Clinton is impeached. The House of Representatives approved two articles of impeachment against President Clinton, charging him with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice. Clinton was the second president in American history to be impeached.
1984
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang sign an agreement that committed Britain to return Hong Kong to China in 1997 in return for terms guaranteeing a 50-year extension of its capitalist system. Hong Kong was leased by China to Great Britain in 1898 for 99 years.
1982
Four bombs explode at South Africa’s only nuclear power station in Johannesburg.
1974
Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as vice president of the United states after a House of Representatives vote.
1959
Reputed to be the last civil war veteran, Walter Williams, dies at 117 in Houston.
1950
The North Atlantic Council names General Dwight D. Eisenhower as supreme commander of Western European defense forces.
1945
Congress confirms Eleanor Roosevelt as U.S. delegate to the United Nations.