Today's Date
Thursday, December 26, 2024
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-05:00)
• Today's Date in numbers: 361
• Week number: 52
• Leap year: 2024 is a leap year.
• Daylight Saving Time: No
Sunrise, Sunset Times Today
• Sunrise time: 07:53 am
• Sunset time: 05:13 pm
• Day length: 09h 20m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase Today
• Moon Phase: Waning Crescent
• Illumination: 15%
• Moon Age: 25.77 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
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Today in History
2006
Former U.S. President Gerald R. Ford dies at age 93. Ford was the only unelected president in America’s history.
2004
A tsunami caused by a 9.3-magnitude earthquake kills more than 230,000 along the rim of the Indian Ocean.
1999
Lothar, a violent, 36-hour windstorm begins; it kills 137 and causes $1.3 billion (US dollars) damage in Central Europe.
1996
JonBenet Ramsey, a six-year-old beauty queen, is found beaten and strangled to death in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado, one of the most high-profile crimes of the late 20th century in the US.
1996
Workers in South Korea’s automotive and shipbuilding industries begin the largest labor strike in that country’s history, protesting a new law that made firing employees easier and would curtail the rights of labor groups to organize.
1991
The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union formally dissolves the Soviet Union.
1982
Time magazine chooses a personal computer as it “Man of the Year,” the first non-human ever to receive the honor.
1979
The Soviet Union flies 5,000 troops to intervene in the Afghanistan conflict.
1966
Dr. Maulana Karenga celebrates the first Kwanza, a seven-day African-American celebration of family and heritage.
1962
Eight East Berliners escape to West Berlin, crashing through gates in an armor-plated bus.
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