Today's Date
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Time Zone: America/Chicago (GMT-05:00)
• Today's Date in numbers: 289
• Week number: 42
• Leap year: No - Next is 2028
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times Today
• Sunrise time: 07:53 am
• Sunset time: 07:03 pm
• Day length: 11h 10m
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Moon Phase Today
• Moon Phase: Waning Crescent
• Illumination: 18%
• Moon Age: 25.35 day(s)
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Today in History
2002
Inaugural opening of Bibliotheca Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt., a modern library and cultural center commemorating the famed Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity.
1998
General Augusto Pinochet, former dictator of Chile, arrested in London for extradition on murder charges
1995
The Million Man March for ‘A Day of Atonement’ takes place in Washington, D.C.
1995
Skye Bridge opens over Loch Alsh, Scotland
1984
A baboon heart is transplanted into 15-day-old Baby Fae–the first transplant of the kind–at Loma Linda University Medical Center, California. Baby Fae lives until November 15.
1978
The college of cardinals elects 58-year-old Karol Cardinal Wojtyla, a Pole, the first non-Italian Pope since 1523.
1973
Israeli General Ariel Sharon crosses the Suez Canal and begins to encircle two Egyptian armies.
1969
The New York Mets win the World Series four games to one over the heavily-favored Baltimore Orioles.
1946
Ten Nazi war criminals are hanged in Nuremberg, Germany.
1940
Benjamin O. Davis becomes the U.S. Army’s first African American Brigadier General.
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