Today's Date
Monday, October 28, 2024
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-04:00)
• Today's Date in numbers: 302
• Week number: 44
• Leap year: 2024 is a leap year.
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times Today
• Sunrise time: 07:57 am
• Sunset time: 06:37 pm
• Day length: 10h 39m
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Moon Phase Today
• Moon Phase: Waning Crescent
• Illumination: 11%
• Moon Age: 26.34 day(s)
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Today in History
2007
Argentina elects its first woman president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
2005
Libby “Scooter” Lewis, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, resigns after being indicted for “outing” CIA agent Valerie Plame.
1982
The Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party wins the election, giving Spain its first Socialist government since the death of right-wing President Francisco Franco.
1971
Britain launches the satellite Prospero into orbit, using a Black Arrow carrier rocket; this is the first and so far (2013) only British satellite launched by a British rocket.
1965
Construction is completed on the St. Louis Arch; at 630 feet (192m), it is the world’s tallest arch.
1962
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders Soviet missiles removed from Cuba, ending the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1960
In a note to the OAS (Organization of American States), the United States charges that Cuba has been receiving “substantial quantities of arms and numbers of military technicians” from the Soviet bloc.
1944
The first B-29 Superfortress bomber mission flies from the airfields in the Mariana Islands in a strike against the Japanese base at Truk.
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