Today's Date
Saturday, October 12, 2024
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-04:00)
• Today's Date in numbers: 286
• Week number: 41
• Leap year: 2024 is a leap year.
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times Today
• Sunrise time: 07:39 am
• Sunset time: 06:59 pm
• Day length: 11h 19m
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Moon Phase Today
• Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous
• Illumination: 72%
• Moon Age: 9.63 day(s)
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Today in History
2002
Terrorist bombers kill over 200 and wound over 300 more at the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali.
2000
Suicide bombers at Aden, Yemen, damage USS Cole; 17 crew members are killed and over 35 are wounded.
1999
Chief of Army Staff Pervez Musharraf seizes power in Pakistan through a bloodless military coup.
1994
NASA loses contact with the Magellan probe spacecraft in the thick atmosphere of Venus.
1984
The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonates at bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England, in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; 5 others are killed and 31 wounded.
1971
The House of Representatives passes the Equal Rights Amendment 354-23.
1970
President Richard Nixon announces the pullout of 40,000 more American troops in Vietnam by Christmas.
1964
1964 USSR launches Voskhod I, first spacecraft with multi-person crew; it is also the first mission in which the crew does not wear space suits.
1960
Inejiro Asanuma, leaders of the Japan Socialist Party, is assassinated during a live TV broadcast.
1949
Eugenie Anderson becomes the first woman U.S. ambassador.
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