Today's Date
Thursday, September 5, 2024
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-04:00)
• Today's Date in numbers: 249
• Week number: 36
• Leap year: 2024 is a leap year.
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times Today
• Sunrise time: 07:04 am
• Sunset time: 08:00 pm
• Day length: 12h 55m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase Today
• Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent
• Illumination: 7%
• Moon Age: 2.57 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
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Today in History
1996
Hurricane Fran comes ashore near Cape Fear, No. Car. It will kill 27 people and cause more than $3 billion in damage.
1984
Space Shuttle Discovery lands afters its maiden voyage.
1980
World’s longest tunnel opens; Switzerland’s St. Gotthard Tunnel stretches 10.14 miles (16.224 km) from Goschenen to Airolo.
1978
Israel’s Menachem Begin and Egypt’s Anwar Sadat begin discussions on a peace process, at Camp David, Md.
1977
Hanns-Martin Schleyer, a German business executive who headed to powerful organization and had been an SS officer during WW2, is abducted by the left-wing extremist group Red Army Faction, who execute him on Oct. 18.
1977
Voyager 1 space probe launched.
1975
President Gerald Ford evades an assassination attempt in Sacramento, California.
1972
“Black September,” a Palestinian terrorist group take 11 Israeli athletes hostage at the Olympic Games in Munich; by midnight all hostages and all but 3 terrorists are dead.
1969
Charges are brought against US lieutenant William Calley in the March 1968 My Lai Massacre during Vietnam War.
1960
Leopold Sedar Sengingor, poet and politician, is elected president of Senegal, Africa.
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