Today is Tuesday, the 16th of October of 2018. It is the 289th day of the year.
There are 76 days remaining until the end of the year. 66 days until winter begins
21 days until the election on Tuesday November 6, 2018 ...
(21 days from today)
Sunrise at 7:20 this morning
and sunset will be at 6:29 pm.
We will have 11 hours and 9 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 12:54 pm.
The first high tide will be at 7:16 am
and the next high tide at 5:29 pm.
The only low tide of the day will be at 12:17 pm.
A low-medium pollen count of 3.4, slightly rising to 4.3 by the end of the week…
The Moon is 48.0% visible; a Waxing Crescent
Moon Direction:↑ 304.14° NW
Moon Altitude:-64.37°
Moon Distance:250514 mi
Next Full Moon: Wednesday October 24, 2018 at 9:45 am
Next New Moon: Nov 7, 2018 at 8:01 am
Next Moonrise: Today at 2:23 pm
Today is…
National Cut Up Your Credit Card Day
National Pharmacy Technician Day
Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity
Today is also…
Pope John Paul II Day in Poland
Death anniversary of Liaquat Ali Khan in Pakistan
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
1758 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer (d. 1843)
1854 – Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1938)
1854 – Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and poet (d. 1900)
1886 – David Ben-Gurion, Polish-Israeli soldier and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
1888 – Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
1890 – Michael Collins, Irish general and politician, 2nd Irish Minister for Finance (d. 1922)
1890 – Paul Strand, American photographer and director (d.
1898 – William O. Douglas, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1980)
1900 – Goose Goslin, American baseball player and manager (d. 1971)
1903 – Cecile de Brunhoff, French author and pianist (d. 2003)
1903 – Big Joe Williams, American Delta blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1982)
1908 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian general and politician, Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1985)
1911 – Otto von Bülow, German commander (d. 2006)
1925 – Angela Lansbury, English-American actress, singer, and producer
1927 – Günter Grass, German novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
1928 – Mary Daly, American philosopher and theologian (d. 2010)
1931 – Charles Colson, American lawyer and politician (d. 2012)
1938 – Nico, German singer-songwriter, model, and actress (d. 1988)
1947 – Bob Weir, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and founding member of Grateful Dead
1958 – Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1965 – Tom Tolbert, American basketball player and sportscaster
1969 – Roy Hargrove, American trumpet player and composer
…and on this day in history…
1384 – Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
1846 – William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
1847 – The novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is published in London.
1859 – John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
1882 – The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
1916 – In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
1934 – Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
1950 – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis is published, starting The Chronicles of Narniaseries.
1973 – Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1978 – Karol Wojtyla is elected Pope John Paul II after the October 1978 Papal conclave, the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
1984 – Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1995 – The Million Man March, which, according to the National Park Service, only about 400,000 attended, takes place in Washington, D.C.
1998 – Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.