243 days before today

Today is October 15th, 2024 (Tuesday), so 243 days before today would be:

February 15th, 2024 (Thursday)

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

• Day numbers: 46

• Week number: 7

• Leap year: 2024 is a leap year.

• Daylight Saving Time: No

• Sunrise time: 07:04 am

• Sunset time: 05:46 pm

• Day length: 10h 41m

• Source: suntoday.org

• Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent

• Illumination: 43%

• Moon Age: 6.74 day(s)

• Source: mooninfo.org

February 15th, 2024 Holidays and National Days

February 15th, in History

1974
U.S. gas stations threaten to close because of federal fuel policies.
1967
Thirteen U.S. helicopters are shot down in one day in Vietnam
1965
Canada’s maple leaf flag is raised for the first time.
1961
Eighteen members of the U.S. figure skating team are lost in an airplane crash in Belgium.
1957
Andrei Gromyko replaces Dmitri T. Shepilov as the Soviet Foreign Minister.
1950
Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse-tung sign a mutual defense treaty in Moscow.
1946
Royal Canadian mounted police arrest 22 as Soviet spies.
1944
American bombers attack the Abbey of Monte Cassino in an effort to neutralize it as a German observation post in central Italy.
1943
The Germans break the American Army’s lines at the Fanid-Sened Sector in Tunisia, North Africa.
1942
British forces in Singapore surrender to Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita.