December 30, 2017

Want to figure out the date that is exactly thirty days before Dec 30, without counting?

Your starting date is December 30, so that means that 30 days before would be November 30, .

You can check this by using the date difference calculator to measure the number of days from Dec 30, to Nov 30,

November 30th, is a Thursday. It is the th day of the year, and in the 48th week of the year (assuming each week starts on a Monday), or the 4th quarter of the year. There are 30 days in this month. is not a leap year, so there are days in this year. The short form for this date used in the United States is 11/30/, and almost everywhere else in the world it's 30/11/

In some cases, you might want to skip weekends and count only the weekdays. This could be useful if you know you have a deadline based on a certain number of business days. If you are trying to see what day falls on the exact date difference of 30 weekdays before Dec 30, , you can count up each day skipping Saturdays and Sundays.

Start your calculation with Dec 30, , which falls on a Saturday. Counting backward, the next day would be a Friday.

To get exactly thirty weekdays before Dec 30, , you actually need to count 42 total days (including weekend days). That means that 30 weekdays before Dec 30, would be November 18, .

If you're counting business days, don't forget to adjust this date for any holidays.

November 18th, is a Saturday. It is the nd day of the year, and in the 46th week of the year (assuming each week starts on a Monday), or the 4th quarter of the year. There are 30 days in this month. is not a leap year, so there are days in this year. The short form for this date used in the United States is 11/18/, and almost everywhere else in the world it's 18/11/

This site provides an online Days From Date calculator to help you find the date that occurs exactly X days from a specific date. You can also enter a negative number to find out when X days before that date happened to fall. You can use this tool to figure out a deadline if you have a certain number of days remaining. Or read the full page to learn more about the due date if you're counting business days or weekdays only, skipping Saturday and Sunday. If you're trying to measure the number of days between two dates, you can switch to the Date Difference calculator instead.

Today is Saturday, Dec. 30, the th day of with one to follow.

The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Jupiter, Mars and Venus. The evening stars are Mercury and Uranus.

Those born on this date are under the sign of Capricorn. They include British author Rudyard Kipling in ; Japan's World War II Prime Minister Hideki Tojo in ; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Bo Diddley in ; actor/dancer Russ Tamblyn in (age 90); actor Joseph Bologna in ; baseball Hall of Fame member Sandy Koufax in (age 82); folk singer Noel Paul Stookey in (age 80); television director James Burrows in (age 77); Monkees member Mike Nesmith in (age 75); Monkees member Davy Jones in ; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Patti Smith in (age 71); rock musician and producer Jeff Lynne in (age 70); television personality Meredith Vieira in (age 64); former Today host Matt Lauer in (age 60); actor Tracey Ullman in (age 58); political commentator Sean Hannity in (age 56); golfer Tiger Woods in (age 42); singer/actor Tyrese Gibson in (age 39); actor Eliza Dushku in (age 37); actor Kristin Kreuk in (age 35); basketball star LeBron James in (age 33); singer Ellie Goulding in (age 31).

On this date in history:

In , the United States bought 45, square miles of land along the Gila River from Mexico for $10 million. The area is now southern Arizona and New Mexico.

In , the Union ironclad ship USS Monitor sank off Cape Hatteras, N.C., during a storm. Sixteen members of the crew were lost.

In , flames swept the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, killing people. The fire led to safety regulations for theaters around the world.

In , Grigori Rasputin, a self-fashioned Russian holy man, was killed by Russian nobles eager to end his influence over the royal family.

In , at the first Soviet Congress, Russia, Ukraine and two other Soviet republics signed a treaty creating the Soviet Union.

In , revolutionaries under the command of Ernesto "Che" Guevara battled with government troops loyal to Cuban President Fulgencio Batistafor control of the city of Santa Clara. Within 12 hours of the rebel victory, Batista had fled the country, with control of the country passing to Fidel Castro.

In , Ferdinand Marcos was inaugurated as president of the Philippines.

In , U.S. President Richard Nixon ordered a halt in the bombing of North Vietnam and announced that peace talks with the Hanoi government would resume in Paris in January.

In , Broadway composer Richard Rodgers died in New York City at age He first collaborated with lyricist Lorenz Hart and later with Oscar Hammerstein II for a string of memorable musicals, including Oklahoma, South Pacific and Sound of Music.

In , Exxon Corp. became the first major international oil company to withdraw from South Africa because of that country's racial policies.

In , Ling-Ling, a giant female panda who delighted visitors to Washington's National Zoo for more than two decades, died of heart failure.

In , John Salvi III, an anti-abortion activist, went on a shooting spree at two abortion clinics in Brookline, Mass. He killed two workers and injured five others. Police captured him the next day.

In , Artie Shaw, clarinet virtuoso and leader of one of the biggest of the Swing Era big bands, died at age

In , former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who had been convicted of the massacre of Shiite men and boys, was executed by hanging in Baghdad.

In , a suicide bomber, identified as a Jordanian informant, killed at least eight U.S. civilians, all but one of them CIA agents, at a base in Afghanistan.

In , U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was hospitalized because of a blood clot, the State Department said. The clot, or thrombus, was discovered during a routine MRI while Clinton recuperated from a recent concussion.

In , four NFL coaches were fired on the league's so-called Black Monday: Mike Shanahan of the Washington Redskins, Leslie Fraiser of the Minnesota Vikings, Tampa Bay's Greg Chiano and Jim Schwartz of the Detroit Lions. Cleveland's Rob Chudzinski had been let go the day before.

In , Indians deposited their last and 1,rupee notes into the bank. The government withdrew the currency values in order to crack down on black market and counterfeit currency.

A thought for the day: "A child born to a black mother in a state like Mississippi has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for." -- Thurgood Marshall

Visit the December Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Waxing Gibbous Phase

The Waxing Gibbous on December 30 has an illumination of 90%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On December 30 the Moon is days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

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