Today's Date
Friday, September 6, 2024
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-04:00)
• Today's Date in numbers: 250
• Week number: 36
• Leap year: 2024 is a leap year.
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times Today
• Sunrise time: 07:05 am
• Sunset time: 07:58 pm
• Day length: 12h 53m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase Today
• Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent
• Illumination: 12%
• Moon Age: 3.47 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
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Today in History
1997
Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales: over 1 million people line London’s streets to honor her and 2.5 billion watched the event on TV.
1995
Baltimore Orioles’ Cal Ripken Jr. plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a 56-year MLB record held by Lou Gehrig; in 2007 fans voted this achievement the most memorable moment in MLB history.
1991
USSR officially recognizes independence for the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1991
Leningrad, second-largest city in the USSR, is changed to Saint Petersburg, which had been the city’s name prior to 1924.
1988
Lee Roy Young becomes the first African-American Texas Ranger in the force’s 165-year history.
1976
A Soviet pilot lands his MIG-25 in Tokyo and asks for political asylum in the United States.
1976
Lieutenant Viktor Belenko, a Soviet air force pilot defects, flying a MiG-25 jet fighter to Japan and requesting political asylum in US.
1972
The world learns an earlier announcement that all Israeli athletes taken hostage at the Munich Olympics had been rescued was erroneous; all had been killed by their captors from the Black September terrorist group; all but 3 terrorists also died in shootout around midnight.
1965
Indian troops invade Lahore; Pakistan paratroopers raid Punjab.
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