71 days from February 27, 2012
would be
May 8, 2012 (Tuesday)
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-04:00)
• Day numbers: 129
• Week number: 19
• Leap year: 2012 is a leap year.
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times for May 8, 2012 (Tuesday)
• Sunrise time: 06:25 am
• Sunset time: 08:33 pm
• Day length: 14h 08m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase for May 8, 2012 (Tuesday)
• Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous
• Illumination: 88%
• Moon Age: 18.01 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
May 8, 2012 Holidays and National Days
May 8 in History
1995
Jacques Chirac is elected president of France.
1984
The Soviet Union announces it will not participate in Summer Olympics planned for Los Angeles.
1967
Boxer Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army.
1958
President Dwight Eisenhower orders the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green becomes the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.
1952
Allied fighter-bombers stage the largest raid of the war on North Korea.
1945
The final surrender of German forces is celebrated as VE (Victory Europe) day.
1942
The Battle of the Coral Sea between the Japanese Navy and the U.S. Navy ends.
1940
German commandos in Dutch uniforms cross the Dutch border to hold bridges for the advancing German army.
1933
Mahatma Gandhi—actual name Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi—begins a hunger strike to protest British oppression in India.
1919
The first transatlantic flight by a navy seaplane takes-off.
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