Today's Date
Friday, October 4, 2024
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-04:00)
• Today's Date in numbers: 278
• Week number: 40
• Leap year: 2024 is a leap year.
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times Today
• Sunrise time: 07:31 am
• Sunset time: 07:12 pm
• Day length: 11h 40m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase Today
• Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent
• Illumination: 4%
• Moon Age: 1.94 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
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Today in History
2004
SpaceShipOne, which had achieved the first privately funded human space flight on June 21, wins the Ansari X Prize for the first non-government organization to successfully launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space.
1993
Russia’s constitutional crisis over President Boris Yeltsin’s attempts to dissolve the legislature takes place: the army violently arrests civilian protesters occupying government buildings.
1992
Mozambique’s 16-year civil war ends with the Rome General Peace Accords.
1985
The Free Software Foundation is founded to promote universal freedom to create, distribute and modify computer software.
1976
In Gregg v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court lifts the ban on the death sentence in murder cases. This restores the legality of capital punishment, which had not been practiced since 1967. The first execution following this ruling was Gary Gilmore in 1977.
1972
Judge John Sirica imposes a gag order on the Watergate break-in case.
1968
Cambodia admits that the Viet Cong use their country for sanctuary.
1965
Pope Paul VI arrives in New York, the first Pope ever to visit the US and the Western hemisphere.
1963
Hurricane Flora storms through the Caribbean, killing 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
1957
Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite, is launched, beginning the “space race.” The satellite, built by Valentin Glushko, weighed 184 pounds and was launched by a converted Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). Sputnik orbited the earth every 96 minutes at a maximum height of 584 miles. In 1958, it reentered the earth’s atmosphere and burned up.
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