Today's Date
Friday, September 12, 2025
Time Zone: America/Chicago (GMT-05:00)
• Today's Date in numbers: 255
• Week number: 37
• Leap year: No - Next is 2028
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times Today
• Sunrise time: 07:20 am
• Sunset time: 07:58 pm
• Day length: 12h 38m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase Today
• Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous
• Illumination: 66%
• Moon Age: 20.59 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
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Today in History
2011
In New York City, the 9/11 Memorial Museum opens to the public.
2007
Joseph Estrada, former president of the Philippines, is convicted of plunder.
2003
UN lifts sanctions against Libya in exchange for that country accepting responsibility for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 and paying recompense to victims’ families.
1992
Space Shuttle Endeavor takes off on NASA’s 50th shuttle mission; its crew includes the first African-American woman in space, the first married couple, and the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spacecraft.
1990
East and West Germany, along with the UK, US and USSR—the Allied nations that had occupied post-WWII Germany—sign the final settlement for reunification of Germany.
1980
Military coup in Turkey.
1977
Steve Biko, a South African activist opposing apartheid, dies while in police custody.
1969
President Richard Nixon orders a resumption in bombing North Vietnam.
1945
French troops land in Indochina.
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