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Thursday
January 08, 2026
12:01:02 PM (EST)

5:01:02 AM (UTC)
Absolute date: 739,624
Day 8 and Second 691,262 of current year
351 shopping days until Christmas

Phase of moon: waning gibbous
Age of moon: 4 days (since last full moon)

For Cleveland (EST)
Sun rise: 7:53 AM, set: 5:14 PM (today)
Sun rise: 7:53 AM, set: 5:15 PM (tomorrow)

Julian Day
2,461,047.71

Julian Calendar
December 26, 2025

ISO Calendar
Day 04 of Week 02 of Year 2026

World Calendar
Sunday, January 08, 2026

Hebrew Calendar
19 Teves 5786

Islamic Calendar
Rajab 19, 1447

Mayan Calendars
Long Count: 13.0.13.4.6
Haab (Civil): 4 Muan
Tzolkin (Religious): 12 Cimi

French Revolutionary
Time: 0:00:72
Décade II, Nonidi de Nivôse de l'Année 234 de la Révolution

Coptic
Kiyahk 30, 1742

Ethiopic
Takhsas 30, 2018

Persian
Dey 18, 1404

Baha'i
9th day of Honour, B.E. 182

Events for 01/08

Births
James Longstreet (205 years ago)
Frank Nelson Doubleday (164 years ago)
Sir Frank Dyson (158 years ago)
Richard Courant (138 years ago)
Elvis Aaron Presley (92 years ago)
Stephen W Hawking (84 years ago)
David Bowie (David Robert Jones) (79 years ago)

Deaths
Galileo Galilei (384 years ago)
Eli Whitney (201 years ago)
Lord Baden-Powell (85 years ago)

Events
Eleventh Amendment proclaimed (228 years ago)
AT&T lost antitrust case (44 years ago)

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