Today's Date
Saturday, November 9, 2024
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-05:00)
• Today's Date in numbers: 314
• Week number: 45
• Leap year: 2024 is a leap year.
• Daylight Saving Time: No
Sunrise, Sunset Times Today
• Sunrise time: 07:10 am
• Sunset time: 05:23 pm
• Day length: 10h 12m
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Moon Phase Today
• Moon Phase: First Quarter - 12:56 am
• Illumination: 58%
• Moon Age: 8.17 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
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Today in History
2007
German Bundestag passes controversial bill mandating storage of citizens’ telecommunications traffic date for six months without probable cause.
1998
Largest civil settlement in US history: 37 brokerage houses are ordered to pay $1.3 billion to NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing.
1994
The chemical element Darmstadtium, a radioactive synthetic element, discovered by scientists in Darmstadt, Germany.
1993
Stari Most, a 427-year-old bridge in the city of Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina, is destroyed, believed to be caused by artillery fire from Bosnian Croat forces.
1989
The Berlin Wall is opened after dividing the city for 28 years.
1983
Alfred Heineken, beer brewer from Amsterdam, is kidnapped and held for a ransom of more than $10 million.
1972
Bones discovered by the Leakeys push human origins back 1 million years.
1967
NASA launches Apollo 4 into orbit with the first successful test of a Saturn V rocket.
1965
Roger Allen LaPorte, a 22-year-old former seminarian and a member of the Catholic worker movement, immolates himself at the United Nations in New York City in protest of the Vietnam War.
1965
Nine Northeastern states and parts of Canada go dark in the worst power failure in history, when a switch at a station near Niagara Falls fails.
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