79 days before December 20, 1940
would be
October 2, 1940 (Wednesday)
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-05:00)
• Day numbers: 276
• Week number: 40
• Leap year: 1940 is a leap year.
• Daylight Saving Time: No
Sunrise, Sunset Times for October 2, 1940 (Wednesday)
• Sunrise time: 06:30 am
• Sunset time: 06:14 pm
• Day length: 11h 43m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase for October 2, 1940 (Wednesday)
• Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent
• Illumination: 3%
• Moon Age: 1.72 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
October 2, 1940 Holidays and National Days
October 2 in History
2001
NATO backs US military strikes in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
1990
Flight 8301 of China’s Xiamen Airlines is hijacked and crashed into Baiyun International Airport, hitting two other aircraft and killing 128 people.
1980
Congressional Representative Mike Myers is expelled from the US House for taking a bribe in the Abscam scandal, the first member to be expelled since 1861.
1970
A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, staff, and supporters crashes in Colorado; 31 of the 40 people aboard die.
1967
Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court justice, is sworn in. Marshall had previously been the solicitor general, the head of the legal staff of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and a leading American civil rights lawyer.
1964
Scientists announce findings that smoking can cause cancer.
1959
The groundbreaking TV series The Twilight Zone, hosted by Rod Serling, premiers on CBS.
1950
The comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schultz, makes its first appearance in newspapers.
1941
The German army launches Operation Typhoon, the drive towards Moscow.
1931
Aerial circus star Clyde Pangborn and playboy Hugh Herndon, Jr. set off to complete the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean from Misawa City, Japan.
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