55 days before October 24, 1988

would be

August 30, 1988 (Tuesday)

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

• Day numbers: 243

• Week number: 35

• Leap year: 1988 is a leap year.

• Daylight Saving Time: Yes

Sunrise, Sunset Times for August 30, 1988 (Tuesday)

• Sunrise time: 06:59 am

• Sunset time: 08:09 pm

• Day length: 13h 10m

• Source: suntoday.org

Moon Phase for August 30, 1988 (Tuesday)

• Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous

• Illumination: 82%

• Moon Age: 18.8 day(s)

• Source: mooninfo.org

August 30, 1988 Holidays and National Days

August 30 in History

1986
KGB arrests journalist Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report) on a charge of spying and hold him for 13 days.
1983
Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford, Jr., becomes the first African-American astronaut to travel in space.
1983
Eiffel Tower welcomes its 150 millionth visitor, 33-year-old Parisian Jacqueline Martinez.
1982
Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) forced out of Lebanon after 10 years in Beirut during Lebanese Civil War.
1979
First recorded instance of a comet (Howard-Koomur-Michels) hitting the sun; the energy released is equal to approximately 1 million hydrogen bombs.
1976
Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of Today Show.
1967
US Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as first African-American Supreme Court justice.
1963
Hot Line communications link installed between Moscow and Washington, DC.
1961
President John F. Kennedy appoints General Lucius D. Clay as his personal representative in Berlin.
1944
Ploesti, the center of the Rumanian oil industry, falls to Soviet troops.
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