5 days before today

Today is December 22nd, 2024 (Sunday), so 5 days before today would be:

December 17th, 2024 (Tuesday)

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

• Day numbers: 352

• Week number: 51

• Leap year: 2024 is a leap year.

• Daylight Saving Time: No

• Sunrise time: 07:48 am

• Sunset time: 05:09 pm

• Day length: 09h 20m

• Source: suntoday.org

• Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous

• Illumination: 91%

• Moon Age: 17.52 day(s)

• Source: mooninfo.org

December 17th, 2024 Holidays and National Days

December 17th, in History

2010
Mohamed Bouazizi immolates himself, the catalyst for the Tunisian revolution and the subsequent Arab Spring.
2002
Congolese parties of the inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace accord in the Second Congo War, providing for transitional government and elections within two years.
1990
Jean-Bertrand Aristide wins Haiti’s first free election.
1989
The Simpsons, television’s longest-running animated series, makes its US debut.
1989
Fernando Color de Mello becomes Brazil’s first democratically elected president in nearly 30 years.
1981
Red Brigade terrorists kidnap Brigadier General James Dozier, the highest-ranking U.S. NATO officer in Italy.
1965
Ending an election campaign marked by bitterness and violence, Ferdinand Marcos is declared president of the Philippines.
1952
Yugoslavia breaks relations with the Vatican.
1950
The French government appoints Marshal de Lattre de Tassigny to command their troops in Vietnam.
1948
The Smithsonian Institution accepts the Kitty Hawk – the Wright brothers’ plane.