Today is Thursday, the 6th of September of 2018 is the 249th day of the year.
61 days until mid-terms Tuesday November 06 2018...
1 month and 31 days from today
789 days until Presidential elections Tuesday November 03 2020
2 years 1 month and 28 days from today
There are 116 days remaining until the end of the year.
The sun rises this morning at 6:45 am
and sunset will be at 7:30 pm.
We will have 12 hours and 45 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 1:07 pm.
The first low tide will be at 3:11 am
and the next low tide at 3:09 pm.
The first high tide will be at 10:22 am
and the next high tide at 9:19 pm.
A Medium-High Pollen count for the next few days starting with a 7.2 today rising into the 8’s early next week
The Moon is currently 14.4% visible; a Waning Crescent
Moon Direction: ↑ 87.07° E
Moon Altitude: 28.79°
Moon Distance: 225621 mi
Next New Moon: Sunday September 9, 2018 at 11:01 am, the first day of Rosh Hashanah, 5779
Next Full Moon: Monday September 24, 2018 at 7:52 pm
Next Moonset: Today at 5:41 pm
Today is…
Today is also…
The earliest date on which the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance is performed
Armed Forces Day in São Tomé and Príncipe
Defence Day or Army Day in Pakistan
Independence Day in Swaziland, celebrates independence from the United Kingdom in 1968
If today is your birthday Happy Birthday To You!
You share this day with…
1475 – Artus Gouffier, Lord of Boissy, French nobleman and politician (d. 1519)
1860 – Jane Addams, American sociologist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
1888 – Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., American businessman and diplomat, 44th United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (d. 1969)
1899 – Billy Rose, American composer and manager (d. 1966)
1925 – Jimmy Reed, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1976)
1937 – Jo Anne Worley, American actress, comedian, and singer
1939 – David Allan Coe, American outlaw country music singer-songwriter and guitarist
1947 – Jane Curtin, American actress and comedian
1947 – Sylvester, American singer-songwriter (d. 1988)
1952 – Buddy Miller, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1954 – Carly Fiorina, American businesswoman and activist
1958 – Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
1963 – Geert Wilders, Dutch lawyer and politician
1964 – Rosie Perez, American actress, dancer, and director
1967 – Macy Gray, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1972 – Idris Elba, English actor
…and on this day in history…
394 – Battle of the Frigidus: Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills Eugenius the usurper. His Frankish magister militum Arbogast escapes but commits suicide two days later.
1522 – The Victoria returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition and the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
1620 – The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)
1628 – Puritans settle Salem which became part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1642 – England's Long Parliament suppresses all stage plays in theatres.
1803 – British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
1847 – Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
1870 – Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
1901 – Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
1916 – The first self-service grocery store Piggly Wiggly was opened in Memphis, Tennessee by Clarence Saunders.
1962 – Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the 2nd century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London.
1966 – Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is stabbed to death in Cape Town, South Africa during a parliamentary meeting.
1968 – Swaziland becomes independent.
1972 – Munich massacre: Nine Israeli athletes die (along with a German policeman) at the hands of the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group after being taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games. Two other Israeli athletes were slain in the initial attack the previous day.
1983 – The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating that its operatives did not know that it was a civilian aircraft when it reportedly violated Soviet airspace.
1991 – The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
1991 – The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been known as Leningrad since 1924.
1995 – Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years.
1997 – The Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people lined the streets and 2.5 billion watched around the world on television.
2007 – Israel executes the air strike Operation Orchard to destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria.