Today Monday, 4th of December of 2017 is the 338th day of the year.
There are 27 days remaining until the end of the year.
337 days until mid-term elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018...
(11 months and 2 days from today)
1065 days until presidential elections Tuesday November 3, 2020
(2 years 10 months and 30 days from today)
The sun rises at 7:10 am
and sunset will be at 4:51 pm.
Today we will have 9 hours and 41 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 12:00 pm.
The first high tide was at 12:12am
and the next high tide will be at 11:08 am.
The first low tide was at 4:53 am
and the next low tide will be at 5:51 pm.
Moon: 98.7%
Waning Gibbous
Moon Direction: ↑ 270.48° W
Moon Altitude: 31.31°
Moon Distance: 222156 mi
Next New Moon: Sunday December 17, 2017 at 10:30 pm
Next Full Moon: Monday January 1, 2018 at 6:24 pm
Next Moonset: Today at 8:05 am
Today is…
Extraordinary Work Team Recognition Day
It’s also…
Tupou I Day in Tonga
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you! You share this day with…
1866 – Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-German Abstract painter and author (d. 1944)
1875 – Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian-Swiss poet and author (d. 1926)
1892 – Francisco Franco, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1975)
1910 – Alex North, American composer and conductor (d. 1991)
1936 – John Giorno, American poet and performance artist
1937 – Max Baer, Jr., American actor, director, and producer
1940 – Gary Gilmore, American murderer (d. 1977)
1944 – Chris Hillman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1944 – Anna McGarrigle, Canadian musician and singer-songwriter
1944 – Dennis Wilson, American singer-songwriter, producer, and drummer (d. 1983)
1948 – Southside Johnny, American singer-songwriter
1949 – Jeff Bridges, American actor
1955 – Cassandra Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer
1966 – Fred Armisen, American actor and musician
1969 – Jay Z, American rapper, producer, and actor, co-founded Roc-A-Fella Records
1973 – Tyra Banks, American model, actress, and producer
1973 – Kate Rusby, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
…and on this day in history…
1783 – At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, U.S. General George Washington bids farewell to his officers.
1786 – Mission Santa Barbara is dedicated (on the feast day of Saint Barbara).
1791 – The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.
1875 – Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison; he is later recaptured in Spain.
1881 – The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.
1906 – Alpha Phi Alpha the first black intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
1909 – The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.
1918 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office.
1954 – The first Burger King is opened in Miami.
1956 – The Million Dollar Quartet (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash) get together at Sun Studio for the first and last time.
1965 – The Grateful Dead's first concert performance under this new name.
1969 – Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers.
1978 – Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco's first female mayor.
1991 – Terry A. Anderson is released after seven years in captivity as a hostage in Beirut; he is the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon.
1991 – Pan American World Airways ceases its operations after 64 years.
2005 – Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the government to allow universal and equal suffrage.