Today's Date
Friday, May 10, 2024
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-04:00)
• Today's Date in numbers: 131
• Week number: 19
• Leap year: 2024 is a leap year.
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times Today
• Sunrise time: 06:23 am
• Sunset time: 08:35 pm
• Day length: 14h 12m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase Today
• Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent
• Illumination: 10%
• Moon Age: 3.04 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
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Today in History
1994
Nelson Mandela is sworn in as South Africa’s first black president.
1960
The USS Nautilus completes the first circumnavigation of the globe underwater.
1941
England’s House of Commons is destroyed during the worst of the London Blitz: 550 German bombers drop 100,000 incendiary bombs.
1940
German forces begin a blitzkrieg of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, skirting France’s “impenetrable” Maginot Line.
1940
Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister.
1933
Nazis begin burning books by “unGerman” writers such as Heinrich Mann and Erich Maria Remarque, author of All Quiet on the Western Front.
1928
WGY-TV in Schenectady, New York, begins regular television programming.
1924
J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
1917
Allied ships get destroyer escorts to fend off German attacks in the Atlantic.
1872
Victoria Woodhull becomes first the woman nominated for U.S. president.
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