Today's Date
Saturday, August 10, 2024
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-04:00)
• Today's Date in numbers: 223
• Week number: 32
• Leap year: 2024 is a leap year.
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times Today
• Sunrise time: 06:39 am
• Sunset time: 08:37 pm
• Day length: 13h 58m
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Moon Phase Today
• Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent
• Illumination: 34%
• Moon Age: 5.88 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
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Today in History
2006
All toiletries are banned from commercial airplanes after Scotland Yard disrupts a a major terrorist plot involving liquid explosives. After a few weeks, the toiletries ban was modified.
2003
For the first time ever, temperatures exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit when thermometers hit 101.3 F (38.5 Celsius) at Kent.
1997
The last British troops leave Hong Kong. After 156 years of British rule, the island is returned to China.
1977
The US and Panama sign the Panama Canal Zone accord, guaranteeing Panama would have control of the canal after 1999.
1975
David Frost purchases the exclusive rights to interview Richard Nixon.
1970
Rocker Jim Morrison is tried in Miami on “lewd & lascivious behavior charges.” Although convicted and sentenced to jail, he was free on bond while his case was being appealed when he died in Paris, July 3, 1971.
1960
NASA launches Discoverer 13, a satellite; it would become the first object ever recovered from orbit.
1954
English jockey Sir Gordon Richards retires with a world-record total of 4,870 victories, later broken by Johnny Longden of the United States. Richards was the first jockey ever to be knighted.
1954
The groundbreaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held at Massena, New York.
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