Today's Date
Sunday, August 18, 2024
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-04:00)
• Today's Date in numbers: 231
• Week number: 33
• Leap year: 2024 is a leap year.
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times Today
• Sunrise time: 06:47 am
• Sunset time: 08:27 pm
• Day length: 13h 40m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase Today
• Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous
• Illumination: 99%
• Moon Age: 13.83 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
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Today in History
2011
Gold hits a record price of $1,826 per ounce.
2010
Edelmiro Cavazos, mayor of Santiago, Nuevo Leon, is found handcuffed, blindfolded and dead following his abduction three days earlier. He had championed crackdowns on organized crime and police corruption.
1993
Historic Kapelbrug (chapel bridge) in Luzern, Switzerland, burns, destroying 147 of its decorative paintings. It was built in 1365.
1992
Dennis Rader, the BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) killer receives 10 consecutive life sentences. He had terrorized Wichita, Kansas, murdering 10 people between 1974 and 1991.
1991
A group of hard-line communist leaders unhappy with the drift toward the collapse of the Soviet Union seize control of the government in Moscow and place President Mikhail S. Gorbachev under house arrest
1988
Republican Convention in New Orleans nominate the George H.W. Bush-Dan Quayle ticket.
1987
Ohio nurse Donald Harvey sentenced to triple life terms for poisoning 24 patients.
1982
Pete Rose sets record with his 13,941st plate appearance.
1979
Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini demands a “Saint War” against Kurds.
1974
Luna 24, the USSR’s final major lunar exploration mission, soft-lands on moon.
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