5940 days before today

Today is December 19th, 2024 (Thursday), so 5940 days before today would be:

September 14th, 2008 (Sunday)

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

• Day numbers: 258

• Week number: 37

• Leap year: 2008 is a leap year.

• Daylight Saving Time: Yes

• Sunrise time: 07:13 am

• Sunset time: 07:45 pm

• Day length: 12h 32m

• Source: suntoday.org

• Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous

• Illumination: 99%

• Moon Age: 14.33 day(s)

• Source: mooninfo.org

September 14th, 2008 Holidays and National Days

September 14th, in History

2007
Northern Rock Bank suffers the UK’s first bank run in 150 years.
1994
Major League Baseball players strike over a salary cap and other proposed changes, forcing the cancellation of the entire postseason and the World Series.
1984
Joe Kittinger, a former USAF fighter pilot during the Vietnam War, becomes the first person to pilot a gas balloon solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
1982
Bachir Gemayel, president-elect of Lebanon, is killed along with 26 others in a bomb blast in Beirut.
1979
Nur Muhammad Taraki, president and former prime minister of Afghanistan, is assassinated in a coup in which prime minister Hafizullah Amin seizes power.
1975
Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton becomes the first native-born American saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
1966
Operation Attleboro, designed as a training exercise for American troops, becomes a month-long struggle against the Viet Cong.
1960
Iraq, Iran, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia form OPEC.
1943
German troops abandon the Salerno front in Italy..
1911
Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is mortally wounded in an assassination attempt at the Kiev opera house.