1559 days before today

Today is March 28th, 2024 (Thursday), so 1559 days before today would be:

December 21st, 2019 (Saturday)

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

• Day numbers: 355

• Week number: 51

• Leap year: 2019 is not a leap year

• Daylight Saving Time: No

• Sunrise time: 07:26 am

• Sunset time: 04:51 pm

• Day length: 09h 25m

• Source: suntoday.org

• Moon Phase: Waning Crescent

• Illumination: 20%

• Moon Age: 25.14 day(s)

• Source: mooninfo.org

December 21st, 2019 Holidays and National Days

December 21st, in History

2004
A suicide bomber attacks the forward operating base next to the US military airfield at Mosul, Iraq, killing 22 people; it is the deadliest suicide attack on US soldiers during the Iraq War.
1995
The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
1994
Popocatepetl, a volcano in Mexico spews forth gases and ash after nearly a half-century of dormancy.
1988
Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York explodes in midair over Lockerbie, Scotland, an hour after departure. All 259 passengers were killed in the explosion caused by a bomb– hidden inside an audio cassette player — that detonated inside the cargo area when the plane was at an altitude of 31,000 feet. A shower of airplane parts falling from the sky also killed 11 Lockerbie residents.
1986
500,000 Chinese students gather in Shanghai’s People’s Square calling for democratic reforms, including freedom of the press.
1969
American draft evaders gather for a holiday dinner in Montreal, Canada.
1965
Four pacifists are indicted in New York for burning draft cards — Thomas C. Cornell, 31, co-secretary of the Catholic Peace Fellowship; Roy Lisker, 27, a volunteer of the Catholic Worker Movement; James E. Wilson, 21, a volunteer at the Catholic Worker Movement and a member of the Fellowship for Reconciliation; and M P, Edelman, a full-time worker for the War Resisters League.
1964
Great Britain’s House of Commons votes to ban the death penalty.
1963
The Turk minority riots in Cyprus to protest anti-Turkish revisions in the constitution.