Today's Date
Sunday, August 4, 2024
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-04:00)
• Today's Date in numbers: 217
• Week number: 31
• Leap year: 2024 is a leap year.
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times Today
• Sunrise time: 06:33 am
• Sunset time: 08:44 pm
• Day length: 14h 10m
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Moon Phase Today
• Moon Phase: New Moon - 07:14 am
• Illumination: 0%
• Moon Age: 0.45 day(s)
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Today in History
2007
NASA launches the Phoenix spacecraft on a mission to Mars.
1988
The US Senate votes to give each Japanese-American who was interned during WWII $20,000 compensation and an apology.
1979
President Jimmy Carter establishes the Department of Energy.
1972
Arthur Bremer is sentenced to 63 years for shooting Alabama governor George Wallace, later reduced to 53 years.
1971
The U.S. launches the first satellite into lunar orbit from a manned spacecraft (Apollo 15).
1964
The bodies of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James E. Chaney, are discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam.
1964
The U.S.S. Maddox and Turner Joy exchange fire with North Vietnamese patrol boats.
1952
Helicopters from the U.S. Air Force Air Rescue Service land in Germany, completing the first transatlantic flight by helicopter in 51 hours and 55 minutes of flight time.
1944
RAF pilot T. D. Dean becomes the first pilot to destroy a V-1 buzz bomb when he tips the pilotless craft’s wing, sending it off course.
1942
The British government charges that Mohandas Gandhi and his All-Indian Congress Party favor “appeasement” with Japan.
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