Today's Date
Sunday, April 12, 2026
Time Zone: America/Chicago (GMT-05:00)
• Today's Date in numbers: 102
• Week number: 15
• Leap year: No - Next is 2028
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times Today
• Sunrise time: 07:11 am
• Sunset time: 08:16 pm
• Day length: 13h 05m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase Today
• Moon Phase: Waning Crescent
• Illumination: 23%
• Moon Age: 24.77 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
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Today in History
1983
Harold Washington is elected the first black mayor of Chicago.
1966
Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American major league umpire.
1963
Police use dogs and cattle prods on peaceful civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama.
1961
Soviet Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes first man to orbit the Earth.
1955
Dr. Jonas Salk’s discovery of a polio vaccine is announced.
1954
Bill Haley records “Rock Around the Clock.”
1945
President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies at Warm Spring, Georgia. Harry S. Truman becomes president.
1944
The U.S. Twentieth Air Force is activated to begin the strategic bombing of Japan.
1927
The British Cabinet comes out in favor of voting rights for women.
1916
American cavalrymen and Mexican bandit troops clash at Parral, Mexico.
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