Today Friday, the 22nd of December of 2017 is the 356th day of the year.
There are nine days remaining until the end of the year.
319 days until mid-term elections Tuesday November 06 2018
a Tuesday 10 months and 15 days from today
1047 days until presidential elections on Tuesday November 03 2020
a Tuesday 2 years 10 months and 12 days from today
The sun will rise at 7:23 am
and sunset will be at 4:56 pm.
Today we will have 9 hours and 33 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 12:09 pm.
The first high tide was at 2:44 am
and the next high tide will be at 1:12 pm.
The first low tide will be at 7:30 am
and the next low tide at 7:56 pm.
Moon: 15.5%
Waxing Crescent
Moon Direction:↑ 48.61° NE
Moon Altitude:-60.73°
Moon Distance:249935 mi
Next Full Moon: Monday January 1, 2018 at 6:24 pm
Next New Moon: Tuesday January 16, 2018 at 6:17 pm
Next Moonrise:Today at 10:22 am
Today is…
Abilities Day
National Cookie Exchange Day
National Date Nut Bread Day
It’s also…
National Mathematics Day in India
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you! You share this day with…
1858 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer and educator (d. 1924)
1883 – Edgard Varèse, French-American composer (d. 1965)
1887 – Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (d. 1920)
1901 – Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-American conductor and composer (d. 1980)
1905 – Kenneth Rexroth, American poet, translator, and academic (d. 1982)
1912 – Lady Bird Johnson, American beautification activist; 38th First Lady of the United States (d. 2007)
1915 – Barbara Billingsley, American actress (d. 2010)
1917 – Gene Rayburn, American game show host and actor (d. 1999)
1922 – Jim Wright, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 56th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 2015)
1936 – James Burke, Irish historian and author
1943 – Paul Wolfowitz, American banker and politician, 25th United States Deputy Secretary of Defense
1945 – Diane Sawyer, American journalist
1949 – Maurice Gibb, Manx-English singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2003)
1949 – Robin Gibb, Manx-English singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2012)
1955 – Lonnie Smith, American baseball player
1962 – Ralph Fiennes, English actor
1970 – Ted Cruz, American lawyer and politician
And on this day in history…
609 – Muhammad claims to receive his first revelation.
1807 – The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U.S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson.
1808 – Ludwig van Beethoven conducts and performs in concert at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, with the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto (performed by Beethoven himself) and Choral Fantasy (with Beethoven at the piano).
1894 – The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.
1965 – In the United Kingdom, a 70 mph speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time.
1978 – The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform.
1984 – Bernhard Goetz shoots four would-be muggers on an express train in Manhattan section of New York, New York.
1987 – In Zimbabwe, the political parties ZANU and ZAPU reach an agreement that ends the violence in the Matabeleland region known as the Gukurahundi.
1989 – Communist President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu is overthrown by Ion Iliescu after days of bloody confrontations. The deposed dictator and his wife flee Bucharest in a helicopter as protesters erupt in cheers.
1989 – Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.
1990 – Lech Wałęsa is elected President of Poland.
2001 – Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.
2010 – The repeal of the Don't ask, don't tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning gay people from serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President Barack Obama.