5949 days before today

Today is December 18th, 2024 (Wednesday), so 5949 days before today would be:

September 4th, 2008 (Thursday)

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

• Day numbers: 248

• Week number: 36

• Leap year: 2008 is a leap year.

• Daylight Saving Time: Yes

• Sunrise time: 07:03 am

• Sunset time: 08:01 pm

• Day length: 12h 57m

• Source: suntoday.org

• Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent

• Illumination: 25%

• Moon Age: 5.02 day(s)

• Source: mooninfo.org

September 4th, 2008 Holidays and National Days

September 4th, in History

1998
Google founded by Stanford University students Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
1975
Sinai II Agreement between Egypt and Israel pledges that conflicts between the two countries “shall not be resolved by military force but by peaceful means.”
1972
Mark Spitz becomes first Olympic competitor to win 7 medals during a single Olympics Games.
1967
Operation Swift begins as US Marines engage North Vietnamese Army troops in Que Son Valley.
1957
Arkansas governor Orval Faubus calls out the National Guard to bar African-American students from entering a Little Rock high school.
1951
The first transcontinental television broadcast in America is carried by 94 stations.
1945
The American flag is raised on Wake Island after surrender ceremonies there.
1944
British troops liberate Antwerp, Belgium.
1943
Allied troops capture Lae-Salamaua, in New Guinea.
1942
Soviet planes bomb Budapest in the war’s first air raid on the Hungarian capital.