Today Thursday, 8th of September of 2016 is the 252nd day of the year.
There are 114 days remaining until the end of the year.
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:47 am
and sunset will be at 7:27 pm.
Today we will have 12 hours and 40 minutes of sun.
The solar transit will be at 1:07 pm.
The first high tide was at 5:35 am
and the next high tide will be at 5:01 pm.
The first low tide will be at 10:40 am
and the next low tide at 11:52 pm.
the Moon is 40.9% illuminated, a Waxing Crescent
Moonrise Today: 1:25 PM↑ 111° Southeast
Moonset Today: 11:55 PM↑ 248° West
First Quarter Moon on in 1 day Friday the 9th of September of 2016 at 4:49 am
Full Moon in 8 days on Friday the 16th of September of 2016 at 12:05 pm
Today is National Date Nut Bread Day
National Pledge of Allegiance Day
Pardon Day
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses Day
Virgin Mary Day
It's also...
Day of the Battle of Borodino in Russia
Feast of 'Izzat – First day of the tenth month of the Bahá'í calendar.
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Macedonia from Yugoslavia in 1991.
International Literacy Day
Martyrs' Day in Afghanistan
National Day in Andorra, also the feast of Our Lady of Meritxell
Victory Day in Pakistan
Victory Day, also the feast of Our Lady of Victories or il-Vittorja in Malta
World Physical Therapy Day
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you! You get share birthday cake with...
1841 – Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer and academic (d. 1904)
1841 – Charles J. Guiteau, American preacher and lawyer, assassin of U.S. President James A. Garfield (d. 1882)
1873 – Alfred Jarry, French author and playwright (d. 1907)
1897 – Jimmie Rodgers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1933)
1900 – Claude Pepper, American lawyer and politician (d. 1989)
1921 – Harry Secombe, Welsh-English actor (d. 2001)
1922 – Sid Caesar, American comic actor and writer (d. 2014)
1922 – Lyndon LaRouche, American politician and activist, founded the LaRouche movement
1925 – Peter Sellers, English actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1980)
1930 – Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, Vietnamese general and politician, 16th Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam (d. 2011)
1932 – Patsy Cline, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1963)
1940 – Jack Prelutsky, American author and poet
1941 – Bernie Sanders, American politician
1942 – Sal Valentino, American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Beau Brummels)
1944 – Peter Bellamy, English singer-songwriter (d. 1991)
1945 – Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (d. 1973)
1947 – Ann Beattie, American author and academic
1954 – Jon Scieszka, American author and educator
1960 – Aimee Mann, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
1979 – Pink, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1987 – Wiz Khalifa, Haitian rapper and actor
On this day in history...
1565 – St. Augustine, Florida was founded by Spanish admiral and Florida's first governor, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.
1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
1900 – Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
1935 – US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building.
1951 – Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.
1952 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang.
1962 – Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, 9F locomotive
92220 Evening Star.
1966 – The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap".
1971 – In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.
1974 – Watergate scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
1975 – Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time
magazine with the headline "I Am A Homosexual". He is given a general discharge, which was later upgraded to honorable.
2012 – Forner US President Jimmy Carter passes Herbert Hoover for longest retirement after leaving office. Hoover was retired for 11,553 days, and had held the record for over
54 years.