Today's Date
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-04:00)
• Today's Date in numbers: 247
• Week number: 36
• Leap year: 2024 is a leap year.
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times Today
• Sunrise time: 07:02 am
• Sunset time: 08:03 pm
• Day length: 13h 00m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase Today
• Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent
• Illumination: 1%
• Moon Age: 0.79 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
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Today in History
2001
Protestant loyalists in Belfast, Ireland, begin an 11-week picket of the Holy Cross Catholic school for girls, sparking rioting.
1994
Russia and China sign a demarcation agreement to end dispute over a stretch of their border and agree they will no longer target each other with nuclear weapons.
1989
US begins shipping military aircraft and weapons to Columbia for use against that country’s drug lords.
1981
Egypt arrests some 1,500 opponents of the government.
1976
The unmanned US spacecraft Viking 2 lands on Mars, takes first close-up, color photos of the planet’s surface.
1969
Ho Chi Minh, the leader of North Vietnam, dies.
1967
Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Thieu is elected president of South Vietnam.
1945
General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the Japanese commander of the Philippines, surrenders to Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright at Baguio.
1944
The U.S. Seventh Army captures Lyons, France.
1943
British troops invade Italy, landing at Calabria.
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