Today's Date
Monday, September 1, 2025
Time Zone: Europe/London (GMT+00:00)
• Today's Date in numbers: 244
• Week number: 36
• Leap year: No - Next is 2028
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times Today
• Sunrise time: 06:12 am
• Sunset time: 07:51 pm
• Day length: 13h 38m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase Today
• Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous
• Illumination: 64%
• Moon Age: 8.74 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
Holidays and National Days Today
Today in History
2004
Armed terrorists take children and adults hostage in the Beslan school hostage crisis in North Ossetia, Russia.
1998
On National Day, Vietnam releases 5,000 prisoners, including political dissidents.
1985
The wreck of the Titanic found by Dr. Robert Ballard and Jean Louis Michel in a joint U.S. and French expedition.
1979
US spacecraft Pioneer 11 makes the first-ever flyby of Saturn.
1972
America’s Bobby Fischer beats Russia’s Boris Spassky in Reykjavik, Iceland, to become world chess champion.
1970
Dr. Hugh Scott of Washington, D.C. becomes the first African-American superintendent of schools in a major U.S. city.
1969
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi seizes power in Libya following a coup.
1951
Australia, New Zealand and the United States sign the ANZUS Treaty, a mutual defense pact.
1942
A federal judge in Sacramento, Cal., upholds the government’s detention of Japanese-Americans and Japanese nationals as a war measure.
1939
Germany invades Poland, beginning World War II in Europe.
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