50th day of 2013, 315 remaining
Sunrise: 6;54am
Sunset: 5:54pm
66% of the moon is visible, setting at 02:28am, rising at 12:33pm
Low Tides at the Golden Gate: 00:08am/01:32pm
High Tides: 06:09am/08:51pm
Special Celebrations today:
Today is National Chocolate Mint Day
It's Pay Your Bills Week...
This is National Snack Food Month and Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month
On this day in...
1878 Thomas Alva Edison received a patent for the phonograph
1922 Ed Wynn's radio program had the first live studio audience
1985 Cherry Coke was introduced
1986 The Soviet Union launched the Mir space station.
If today's your birthday, you share it with:
Nicholas Copernicus
Lou Christie
Smokey Robinson
Lee Marvin
Amy Tan
Benicio Del Torro
Tags: Daily Almanac/tides