40 days before today

Today is March 28th, 2024 (Thursday), so 40 days before today would be:

February 17th, 2024 (Saturday)

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

• Day numbers: 48

• Week number: 7

• Leap year: 2024 is a leap year.

• Daylight Saving Time: No

• Sunrise time: 07:02 am

• Sunset time: 05:48 pm

• Day length: 10h 46m

• Source: suntoday.org

• Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous

• Illumination: 64%

• Moon Age: 8.74 day(s)

• Source: mooninfo.org

February 17th, 2024 Holidays and National Days

February 17th, in History

1985
Murray Haydon becomes the third person to receive an artificial heart.
1979
China begins a “pedagogical” war against Vietnam. It will last until March.
1975
Art by Cezanne, Gauguin, Renoir, and van Gogh, valued at $5 million, is stolen from the Municipal Museum in Milan.
1973
President Richard Nixon names Patrick Gray director of the FBI.
1969
Russia and Peru sign their first trade accord.
1963
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev visits the Berlin Wall.
1960
Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested in the Alabama bus boycott.
1959
The United States launches its first weather station in space, Vanguard II.
1955
Britain announces its ability to make hydrogen bombs.
1951
Packard introduces its “250” Chassis Convertible.