Today's Date
Sunday, December 22, 2024
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-05:00)
• Today's Date in numbers: 357
• Week number: 51
• Leap year: 2024 is a leap year.
• Daylight Saving Time: No
Sunrise, Sunset Times Today
• Sunrise time: 07:51 am
• Sunset time: 05:11 pm
• Day length: 09h 19m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase Today
• Moon Phase: Last Quarter - 05:19 pm
• Illumination: 49%
• Moon Age: 22.2 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
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Today in History
2010
US President Barack Obama signs a law officially repealing the 17-year-old policy known as “Don’t ask, don’t tell”; the new law permits homosexuals to serve openly in the US military.
2008
Some 1.1 billion gallons of coal fly ash slurry flood part of Tennessee after an ash dike breaks at a solid waste containment area in Roane County, in the eastern part of the state.
2001
President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, takes over an interim government.
2001
A passenger on American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris, Richard Reid, unsuccessfully attempts to destroy the plane in flight by igniting explosives he’d hidden in his shoes.
1997
Hussein Farrah Aidid relinquishes his disputed title of President of Somalia, an important step toward reconciliation in the country.
1992
What became known as the Archives of Terror are discovered in a police station near the capital of Paraguay. The records detail tens of thousands of Latin Americans who had been secretly imprisoned, tortured and / or killed by the security services of several South American governments.
1989
The Romanian government of Nicolae Ceausescu is overthrown, ending 42 years of communist rule.
1989
The division of East and West Germany effectively ends when the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin reopens for the first time in nearly 30 years.
1966
The United States announces the allocation of 900,000 tons of grain to fight the famine in India.
1965
The EF-105F Wild Weasel makes its first kill over Vietnam.
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