Today's Date
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-04:00)
• Today's Date in numbers: 283
• Week number: 41
• Leap year: 2024 is a leap year.
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times Today
• Sunrise time: 07:36 am
• Sunset time: 07:04 pm
• Day length: 11h 27m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase Today
• Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent
• Illumination: 41%
• Moon Age: 6.57 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
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Today in History
2006
North Korea reportedly tests its first nuclear device.
1999
Last flight of the Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird” stealth reconnaissance aircraft takes place.
1983
The president of South Korea, Doo Hwan Chun, with his cabinet and other top officials are scheduled to lay a wreath on a monument in Rangoon, Burma, when a bomb explodes. Hwan had not yet arrived so escaped injury, but 17 Koreans–including the deputy prime minister and two other cabinet members–and two Burmese are killed. North Korea is blamed.
1950
U.N. forces, led by the First Cavalry Division, cross the 38th parallel in South Korea and begin attacking northward towards the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
1949
Harvard Law School begins admitting women.
1946
Eugene O’Neill’s play The Iceman Cometh opens at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York.
1941
President Franklin D. Roosevelt requests congressional approval for arming U.S. merchant ships.
1934
In Marseilles, a Macedonian revolutionary associated with Croat terrorists in Hungary assassinates King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. The two had been on a tour of European capitals in quest of an alliance against Nazi Germany. The assassinations bring the threat of war between Yugoslavia and Hungary, but confrontation is prevented by the League of Nations.
1914
Germans take Antwerp, Belgium, after 12-day siege.
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