Today Thursday, 1st of September of 2016 is the 245th day of the year
There are 121 days remaining until the end of the year.
68 Days until Election Day
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:41 am
and sunset will be at 7:37 pm.
Today we will have 12 hours and 56 minutes of daylight
The solar transit will be at 1:09 pm.
The first low tide will be at 6:05 am
and the next low tide at 6:16 pm.
The only high tide of the day will be at 12:55 pm.
The moon is Zero Per Cent illuminated and New Moon
Moonrise Today: 6:57 AM↑ 81° East
Moonset Today: 7:57 PM↑ 276° West
The First Quarter Moon of the month will fall in 8 days on Friday the 9th of September of 2016 at 4:49 am
The Full Moon will come in 15 days on Friday 16th of September of 2016 at 12:05 pm
The Last Quarter Moon of the month will arrive in 22 days on Friday 23th of September of 2016 at 2:56 am
and the next New Moon in 29 days on Friday 30th of September of 2016 at 5:12 pm
Today is...
NATIONAL NO RHYME (NOR REASON) DAY
American Chess Day
Building and Code Staff Appreciation Day
Calendar Adjustment Day
Chicken Boy Day
Emma M. Nutt Day
National Cherry Popover Day
National No Rhyme or Reason Day
Pink Cadillac Day
Toy Tips Executive Toy Test Day
It's also...
Constitution Day inSlovakia
Disaster Prevention Day in Japan
Flag Day in Honduras
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Uzbekistan from the Soviet Union in 1991.
Journalist Day in Taiwan
Knowledge Day in Russia and Ukraine
International Random Acts of Kindness Day
Start of National Arbor Week in South Africa, September 1-7
Wattle Day in Australia
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share birthday cake with...
1653Johann Pachelbel, German organist, composer, and educator (d. 1706)
1875 Edgar Rice Burroughs, American soldier and author (d. 1950)
1902Carlo Gambino,Italian-born American organized crime leader
1907Walter Reuther, the powerful president of the United Automobile
Workers Union from 1946 to 1970
1923Rocky Marciano,American world heavyweight boxing champion (1952-6)
1925Art Pepper, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (d. 1982)
1931Boxcar Willie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999)
1933Ann Richards, American educator and politician, 45th Governor of Texas (d. 2006)
1933Conway Twitty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1993)
1935Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor and director
1938 Alan Dershowitz, American lawyer and author
1939Lily Tomlin, American actress, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
1942 C. J. Cherryh, American author and educator
1944Archie Bell, American singer-songwriter
1944Leonard Slatkin, American conductor and composer
1946Barry Gibb, Manx-English singer-songwriter and producer
1948Russ Kunkel, American drummer and producer
1957Gloria Estefan, Cuban-American singer-songwriter and actress
On This Day in history...
1878Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
1914St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.
1914The last known passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
1939World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland.
1941Radio Station KALW in San Francisco owned by the San Francisco School District goes on the air for the first time, first at 39.7 megacycles, later moved to 42.1 mHz on the old FM band.
1952The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning
novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published.
1969A coup in Libya brought Moammar Gadhafi to power.
1972In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion.
1983Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board die, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
1985A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
2009A law allowing gay marriage took effect in Vermont.