Today's Date
Friday, August 30, 2024
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-04:00)
• Today's Date in numbers: 243
• Week number: 35
• Leap year: 2024 is a leap year.
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times Today
• Sunrise time: 06:58 am
• Sunset time: 08:09 pm
• Day length: 13h 10m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase Today
• Moon Phase: Waning Crescent
• Illumination: 9%
• Moon Age: 26.64 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
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Today in History
1986
KGB arrests journalist Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report) on a charge of spying and hold him for 13 days.
1983
Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford, Jr., becomes the first African-American astronaut to travel in space.
1983
Eiffel Tower welcomes its 150 millionth visitor, 33-year-old Parisian Jacqueline Martinez.
1982
Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) forced out of Lebanon after 10 years in Beirut during Lebanese Civil War.
1979
First recorded instance of a comet (Howard-Koomur-Michels) hitting the sun; the energy released is equal to approximately 1 million hydrogen bombs.
1976
Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of Today Show.
1967
US Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as first African-American Supreme Court justice.
1963
Hot Line communications link installed between Moscow and Washington, DC.
1961
President John F. Kennedy appoints General Lucius D. Clay as his personal representative in Berlin.
1944
Ploesti, the center of the Rumanian oil industry, falls to Soviet troops.
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