Today is Wednesday, the 17th of October of 2018. It is the 290th day of the year.
There are 75 days remaining until the end of the year. 65 days until winter begins
20 days until the Election on Tuesday November 6, 2018 ...
The sun rises this morning at 7:21 am
and sunset will be at 6:28 pm.
We will have 11 hours and 7 minutes of daylight, today.
The solar transit will be at 12:54 pm.
The first low tide was at 12:35 am
and the next low tide at 1:27 pm.
The first high tide will be at 8:15 am
and the next high tide at 6:40 pm.
A steady low-medium pollen count for the rest of the week. 3.5 today. 3.8 Saturday.
The Moon is 57.3% visible; a Waxing Gibbous
Moon Direction: ↑ 289.01° WNW
Moon Altitude:-53.73°
Moon Distance: 251141 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 3:04 pm
Today is…
Breast Reconstruction Awareness Day
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Medical Assistants Recognition Day
National Support Your Local Chamber of Commerce Day
National Take your Parents to Lunch Day
Today is also …
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Kannemesai Festival in Ise Grand Shrine
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you! You share this day with…
1898 – Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese violinist and educator (d. 1998)
1900 – Jean Arthur, American actress (d. 1991)
1902 – Irene Ryan, American actress (d. 1973)
1903 – Nathanael West, American author and screenwriter (d. 1940)
1906 – Paul Derringer, American baseball player (d. 1987)
1912 – Pope John Paul I, (d. 1978)
1914 – Jerry Siegel, American author and illustrator (d. 1996)
1915 – Arthur Miller, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 2005)
1918 – Rita Hayworth, American actress, singer and dancer (d. 1987)
1920 – Montgomery Clift, American actor (d. 1966)
1923 – Barney Kessel, American guitarist and composer (d. 2004)
1930 – Jimmy Breslin, American journalist and author (d. 2017)
1933 – The Singing Nun, Belgian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and nun (d. 1985)
1938 – Evel Knievel, American motorcycle rider and stuntman (d. 2007)
1947 – Michael McKean, American singer-songwriter, actor, and director
1948 – Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress (d. 2018)
1951 – Shari Ulrich, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and violinist
1959 – Norm Macdonald, Canadian actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
1962 – Mike Judge, American animator, director, screenwriter, producer and actor
1968 – Ziggy Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and voice actor
1969 – Wyclef Jean, Haitian-American rapper, producer, and actor
1972 – Eminem, American rapper, producer, and actor
…and on this day in history …
1091 – London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.
1604 – Kepler's Supernova: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes a supernova in the constellation Ophiuchus.
1771 – Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, age 15.
1888 – Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
1907 – Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
1919 – RCA is incorporated as the Radio Corporation of America.
1931 – Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.
1933 – Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
1956 – Donald Byrne and Bobby Fischer play a famous chess game called The Game of the Century. Fischer beat Byrne and wins a Brilliancy prize.
1965 – The 1964–65 New York World's Fair closes after a two-year run. More than 51 million people had attended the event.
1973 – OPEC imposes an oil embargo against a number of Western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Egypt and Syria.
1979 – Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1979 – The Department of Education Organization Act is signed into law creating the US Department of Education and US Department of Health and Human Services.
1989 – The 6.9 Mw Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Sixty-three people were killed.
1989 – Peaceful Revolution: The East German Politburo votes to remove Erich Honecker from his role as General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.