56 days before March 3, 1978

would be

January 6, 1978 (Friday)

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

• Day numbers: 6

• Week number: 1

• Leap year: 1978 is not a leap year

• Daylight Saving Time: No

Sunrise, Sunset Times for January 6, 1978 (Friday)

• Sunrise time: 07:55 am

• Sunset time: 05:22 pm

• Day length: 09h 27m

• Source: suntoday.org

Moon Phase for January 6, 1978 (Friday)

• Moon Phase: Waning Crescent

• Illumination: 7%

• Moon Age: 27.01 day(s)

• Source: mooninfo.org

January 6, 1978 Holidays and National Days

January 6 in History

2014
US Senate confirms Janet Yellen as the first woman to chair the Federal Reserve Bank in the central bank’s 100-year history.
2005
Former Ku Klux Klan organizer Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi.
2001
In one of the closest Presidential elections in U.S. history, George W. Bush was finally declared the winner of the bitterly contested 2000 Presidential elections more than five weeks after the election due to the disputed Florida ballots.
1987
Astronomers report sighting a new galaxy 12 billion light years away.
1967
Over 16,000 U.S. and 14,000 Vietnamese troops start their biggest attack on the Iron Triangle, northwest of Saigon.
1958
Moscow announces a reduction in its armed forces by 300,000.
1946
Ho Chi Minh wins in the Vietnamese elections.
1945
Boeing B-29 bombers in the Pacific strike new blows on Tokyo and Nanking.
1941
President Franklin D. Roosevelt asks Congress to support the Lend-lease Bill to help supply the Allies.
1937
The United States bans the shipment of arms to war-torn Spain.
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