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Almanac - Wednesday 8/22/18

Bao, taken by flickr user kattebelletje

It's Wednesday, the 22nd of August of 2018. It is the 234th day of the year.  There are 131 days remaining until the end of the year. 31 days until fall begins.  76 days until mid-term elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018...

2 months and 15 days from today

804 days until the presidential election on Tuesday November 3, 2020

2 years 2 months and 12 days from today

The sun rises at 6:32 am and

the sun will set at 7:52 pm.

We will have 13 hours and 20 minutes of daylight.

The solar transit will be at 1:12 pm.

The first low tide was at 3:54 am

The first high tide will be at 11:01 am 

and the next low tide at 3:44 pm.

and the next high tide at 9:40 pm.

The pollen count rises from a medium count of 6.2 to a high medium count of 7.6 this weekend.

The Moon: 86.3%; a Waxing Gibbous

Moon Direction: ↑ 259.09° W

Moon Altitude:-21.22°

Moon Distance: 251854 mi

 

Next Full Moon: Sunday August 26, 2018 at 4:56 am

Next New Moon: Sunday September 9, 2018 at 11:01 am

Next Moonrise: Today at 5:46 pm

Today is…

National Bao Day

National Be an Angel Day

National Eat a Peach Day

National Pecan Torte Day

National Tooth Fairy Day

Never Bean Better Day

Southern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo Day

It’s also…

Flag Day in Russia

Madras Day in Chennai and Tamil NaduIndia

If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You!  You share this day with…

1862 – Claude Debussy, French pianist and composer (d. 1918)

1880 – George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)

1893 – Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist (d. 1967)

1902 – Leni Riefenstahl, German actress, film director and propagandist (d. 2003)

1904 – Deng Xiaoping, Chinese soldier and politician, 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1997)

1908 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer and painter (d. 2004)

1915 – David Dellinger, American activist (d. 2004)

1917 – John Lee Hooker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2001)

1920 – Ray Bradbury, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (d. 2012)

1928 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer and academic (d. 2007)

1934 – Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., American general and engineer (d. 2012)

1935 – Annie Proulx, American novelist, short story writer, and journalist

1939 – Valerie Harper, American actress

1947 – Donna Jean Godchaux, American singer-songwriter (Grateful Dead)

1947 – Cindy Williams, American actress and producer

1950 – Scooter Libby, American lawyer and politician, Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States

1963 – Tori Amos, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer

1964 – Trey Gowdy, American lawyer and U.S. Representative

1968 – Rich Lowry, American writer and magazine editor (National Review)

1973 – Kristen Wiig, American actress, comedian, and screenwriter

…and on this day in history…

1639 – Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.

1642 – Charles I raises his standard in Nottingham, which marks the beginning of the English Civil War.

1654 – Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.

1791 – Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.

1902 – Cadillac Motor Company is founded.

1902 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.

1966 – Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.

1978 – The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Congress. The proposed amendment would have provided the District of Columbia with full voting representation in the Congress, the Electoral College, and regarding amending the U.S. Constitution. The proposed amendment failed to be ratified by enough states (ratified by 16, needed 38) and so did not become part of the Constitution.

1989 – Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.

2003 – Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Courtbuilding.

2004 – Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.

2007 – The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history.