205 days before today

Today is March 28th, 2024 (Thursday), so 205 days before today would be:

September 5th, 2023 (Tuesday)

Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-04:00)

• Day numbers: 248

• Week number: 36

• Leap year: 2023 is not a leap year

• Daylight Saving Time: Yes

• Sunrise time: 06:42 am

• Sunset time: 07:38 pm

• Day length: 12h 56m

• Source: suntoday.org

• Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous

• Illumination: 59%

• Moon Age: 21.2 day(s)

• Source: mooninfo.org

September 5th, 2023 Holidays and National Days

September 5th, 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.