5840 days before today

Today is December 26th, 2024 (Thursday), so 5840 days before today would be:

December 30th, 2008 (Tuesday)

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

• Day numbers: 365

• Week number: 1

• Leap year: 2008 is a leap year.

• Daylight Saving Time: No

• Sunrise time: 07:54 am

• Sunset time: 05:16 pm

• Day length: 09h 21m

• Source: suntoday.org

• Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent

• Illumination: 10%

• Moon Age: 3.12 day(s)

• Source: mooninfo.org

December 30th, 2008 Holidays and National Days

December 30th, in History

2006
Saddam Hussein, former Iraq dictator, is executed by hanging for crimes committed against his own people during his rule.
1976
Governor Carey of New York pardons seven inmates, closing the book on the Attica uprising.
1972
After two weeks of heavy bombing raids on North Vietnam, President Nixon halts the air offensive and agrees to resume peace negotiations with Hanoi representative Le Duc Tho.
1965
Ferdinand E. Marcos is sworn in as the Philippine Republic’s sixth president.
1947
Romania’s King Michael is forced to abdicate by Soviet-backed Communists. Communists now control all of Eastern Europe.
1932
The Soviet Union bars food handouts for housewives under 36 years of age. They must now work to eat.
1922
Soviet Russia is renamed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
1905
Governor Frank Steunenberg of Idaho is killed by an assassin’s bomb.
1862
The draft of the Emancipation Proclamation is finished and circulated among President Abraham Lincoln‘s cabinet for comment.
1861
Banks in the United States suspend the practice of redeeming paper money for metal currency, a practice that would continue until 1879.