Today is Thursday, the 18th of October of 2018. It is the 291st day of the year.
There are 74 days remaining until the end of the year. 64 days until winter begins
19 days until The Election Tuesday November 6, 2018 ...
The sun rises this morning at 7:22 am
and sunset will be at 6:26 pm.
We will have 11 hours and 4 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 12:54 pm.
The first low tide was at 1:34 am
and the next low tide at 2:22 pm.
The first high tide will be at 8:58 am
and the next high tide at 7:47 pm.
A low-to-medium pollen count of 3.6. A steady 4 for the next few days
The Moon is 66.3% visible; a Waxing Gibbous
Moon Direction: ↑ 277.75° W
Moon Altitude:-39.72°
Moon Distance: 250987 mi
Next Full Moon: Wednesday October 24, 2018 at 9:45 am
Next New Moon: Wednesday November 7, 2018 at 8:01 am
Next Moonrise: Today at 3:42 pm
Today is…
Get to Know Your Customers Day
International Credit Union Day®
National Chocolate Cupcake Day
National Get Smart About Credit Day
Today is also…
Independence Day (Azerbaijan), celebrates the independence of Azerbaijan from the Soviet Union in 1991.
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
1898 – Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (d. 1981)
1918 – Bobby Troup, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 1999)
1919 – Anita O'Day, American singer (d. 2006)
1919 – Pierre Trudeau, Canadian lawyer, academic, and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)
1920 – Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, singer, and politician, 9th Greek Minister of Culture (d. 1994)
1921 – Jesse Helms, American soldier, journalist, and politician (d. 2008)
1923 – Jessie Mae Hemphill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2008)
1924 – Buddy MacMaster, Canadian singer-songwriter and fiddler (d. 2014)
1926 – Chuck Berry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017)
1926 – Klaus Kinski, German-American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1991)
1927 – George C. Scott, American actor and director (d. 1999)
1929 – Violeta Chamorro, Nicaraguan publisher and politician, President of Nicaragua
1935 – Peter Boyle, American actor (d. 2006)
1939 – Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
1947 – Laura Nyro, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1997)
1948 – Ntozake Shange, American author, poet, and playwright
1951 – Terry McMillan, American author and screenwriter
1956 – Martina Navratilova, Czech-American tennis player and coach
1960 – Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian martial artist, actor, and producer, and screenwriter
1961 – Wynton Marsalis, American trumpet player, composer, and educator
1984 – Esperanza Spalding, American singer-songwriter and bassist
1984 – Milo Yiannopoulos, British journalist and public speaker
1987 – Zac Efron, American actor and singer
1990 – Bristol Palin, American public speaker and reality television personality
…and on this day in history …
320 – Pappus of Alexandria, Greek philosopher, observes an eclipse of the Sun and writes a commentary on The Great Astronomer (Almagest).
1648 – Boston Shoemakers form first American labor organization.
1851 – Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
1867 – United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
1898 – The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.
1922 – The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
1945 – Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón marries actress Eva Duarte.
1951 – The Studio for Electronic Music was established at the West German Broadcasting facility in Cologne, Germany, making the first modern music studio.
1954 – Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio.
1979 – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license.