8 days before today

Today is November 21st, 2024 (Thursday), so 8 days before today would be:

November 13th, 2024 (Wednesday)

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

• Day numbers: 318

• Week number: 46

• Leap year: 2024 is a leap year.

• Daylight Saving Time: No

• Sunrise time: 07:15 am

• Sunset time: 05:19 pm

• Day length: 10h 04m

• Source: suntoday.org

• Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous

• Illumination: 94%

• Moon Age: 12.6 day(s)

• Source: mooninfo.org

November 13th, 2024 Holidays and National Days

November 13th, in History

2001
US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to planned or actual terrorist acts against the US.
2000
Articles of impeachment passed against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
1989
Compact of Free Association: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau—places US troops wrested from Japanese control in WWII—become sovereign nations, associated states of the United States.
1989
Hans-Adam II becomes Prince of Liechtenstein (1989– ) upon the death of his father, Franz Joseph II.
1985
Some 23,000 people die when the Nevado del Ruiz erupts, melting a glacier and causing a massive mudslide that buries Armero, Columbia.
1982
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated in Washington, DC.
1970
A powerful tropical cyclone strikes the Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), causing an estimated half-million deaths in a single night; the Bhola cyclone is regarded as the worst natural disaster of the 20th century.
1969
Anti-war protesters stage a symbolic “March Against Death” in Washington, DC.
1956
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously strikes down two Alabama laws requiring racial segregation on public buses.
1952
Harvard’s Paul Zoll becomes the first man to use electric shock to treat cardiac arrest.