87 days before December 24, 2009

would be

September 28, 2009 (Monday)

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

• Day numbers: 271

• Week number: 40

• Leap year: 2009 is not a leap year

• Daylight Saving Time: Yes

Sunrise, Sunset Times for September 28, 2009 (Monday)

• Sunrise time: 07:25 am

• Sunset time: 07:22 pm

• Day length: 11h 56m

• Source: suntoday.org

Moon Phase for September 28, 2009 (Monday)

• Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous

• Illumination: 74%

• Moon Age: 9.83 day(s)

• Source: mooninfo.org

September 28, 2009 Holidays and National Days

September 28 in History

2008
SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, Falcon 1.
1996
Afghanistan’s former president (1986-92) Mohammad Najibullah tortured and murdered by the Taliban.
1995
Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat sign an interim agreement concerning settlement on the Gaza Strip.
1963
Roy Lichtenstein’s pop art work Whaam!, depicting in comic-book style a US jet shooting down an enemy fighter, is exhibited for the first time; it will become one of the best known examples of pop art.
1961
Military coup in Damascus ends the Egypt-Syria union known as the United Arab Republic that was formed Feb. 1, 1958.
1959
Explorer VI, the U.S. satellite, takes the first video pictures of earth.
1958
France ratifies a new constitution.
1939
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland; Warsaw surrenders to German troops.