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KALW Almanac - Tuesday 10/30/18

Honey pumpkin bread, by flickr user Liliana Fuchs

Today is Tuesday, the 30th of October of 2018.  It is the 303rd day of the year.

There are 62 days remaining until the end of the year.

7 days until The Election Tuesday November 6, 2018...

The sun will rise in San Francisco at 7:34 am 

and sunset will be at 6:12 pm.

Today we will have 10 hours and 38 minutes of daylight.

The solar transit will be at 12:53 pm.

The first high tide will be at 5:38am 

and the next high tide at 4:09 pm.

The first low tide will be at 10:14 am 

and the next low tide at 11:05 pm.

The Moon is 63.4% visible; a Waning Gibbous

Next New Moon: Wednesday November 7, 2018 at 8:01 am

Next Full Moon:Wednesday November 22, 2018 at 9:39 pm

Next Moonset: Today at 1:33 pm

Today is…

Buy a Doughnut Day

Checklist Day

Create a Great Funeral Day

Haunted Refrigerator Night

Mischief Night

National Candy Corn Day

National Publicist Day

National Speak Up For Service Day

Pumpkin Bread Day

Sugar Addiction Awareness Day

It’s also…

Anniversary of the Declaration of the Slovak Nation (Slovakia)

Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions (former Soviet republics, except Ukraine)

Thevar Jayanthi (Thevar communityIndia)

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

1735 – John Adams, American lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the United States (d. 1826)

1857 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French-Swiss physician and neurologist (d. 1904)

1861 – Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor and painter (d. 1929)

1871 – Paul Valéry, French poet and philosopher (d. 1945)

1885 – Ezra Pound, American poet and critic (d. 1972)

1893 – Charles Atlas, Italian-American bodybuilder (d. 1972)

1915 – Fred W. Friendly, American journalist and producer (d. 1998)

1930 – Clifford Brown, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1956)

1939 – Eddie Holland, American singer-songwriter and producer

1939 – Grace Slick, American singer-songwriter and model

1945 – Henry Winkler, American actor, comedian, director, and producer

1946 – Andrea Mitchell, American journalist

1947 – Timothy B. Schmit, American singer-songwriter and bass player

1951 – Trilok Gurtu, Indian drummer and songwriter

1951 – Poncho Sanchez, American singer and conga player

1981 – Ivanka Trump, American model and businesswoman

…and on this day in history…

1817 – Simón Bolívar becomes President of the Third Republic of Venezuela.

1831 – Nat Turner is arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.

1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.

1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the baseball color line.

1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is founded.

1961 – Due to "violations of Vladimir Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from inside Lenin's tomb and buried nearby with a plain marker instead.

1973 – The Bosphorus Bridge in Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time.

1974 – The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Zaire.

1975 – Prince Juan Carlos I of Spain becomes acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.

1980 – El Salvador and Honduras agree to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.

1983 – The first democratic elections in Argentina, after seven years of military rule, are held.

1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.