Today is Wednesday December 24, 2014 358 day of 2014, 7 remaining Sunrise: 7:23am Sunset: 4:56 pm 9 hours and 33 minutes of daylight today Moonrise: 9:21 a.m. Moonset: 8:24 p.m. Special Celebrations today: Today is Christmas Eve. It's also Egg Nog Day, Chocolate Day and The Feast of the Seven Fishes today. on this day in.... 1818 - Franz Gruber of Oberndorf, Germany composed the music for "Silent Night". 1851 - A fire devastated the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. 1865 - Several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club in Tennessee called the Klu Klux Klan. 1968 -Three astronauts reached the moon, orbitted 10 times and didn't land. They were James Lovell, William Anders and Frank Borman. 1979 - Soviet troops invaded Afganistan in support of the country's Marxist government. 1992 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush pardoned former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and five others in the Iran-Contra scandal. If today is your birthday, you share it with: Ricky Martin Lee Dorsey Ava Gardener Howard Hughes Kit Carson Tags: Daily Almanac/tides
December 24, 2014
