Today Wednesday September 14 is the 258th day of the year.
There are 108 days remaining until the end of the year.
55 Days until Election Day
40 days until the deadline to register to vote, which in California is 15 days before election day -- Monday, October 24th.
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:52 am
and the sun will set at 7:18 pm.
We will have 12 hours and 26 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 1:05 pm.
The first low tide was be at 4:12 am
and the next low tide at 4:22 pm.
The first high tide will be at 11:07 am
and the next high tide at 10:36 pm.
The Moon is (89) % illuminated, a Waxing Gibbous moon
We will have a Full Moon in 2 days on Friday the 16th of September of 2016 at 12:05 pm
The Last Quarter Moon will take place on Friday the 23th of September of 2016 at 2:56 am
We'll have a New Moon on Friday the 30th of September of 2016 at 5:12 pm
and First Quarter Moon of next month will fall on Saturday 8th of October of 2016 at 9:33 pm
Today is…
Eat a Hoagie Day
National Coloring Day
National Cream-Filled Donut Day
The Exaltation of the Holy Cross
It's also…
Children's Day in Nepal
Engineer's Day in Romania
Hindi Diwas in Hindi-speaking regions
Mobilized Servicemen Day in Ukraine
San Jacinto Day in Nicaragua
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You get to share birthday cake with...
1737 – Michael Haydn, Austrian singer and composer (d. 1806)
1769 – Alexander von Humboldt, German geographer and explorer (d. 1859)
1879 – Margaret Sanger, American nurse and activist (d. 1966)
1886 – Jan Masaryk, Czech soldier and politician, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1948)
1898 – Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (d. 1986)
1917 – Rudolf Baumgartner, Swiss violinist and conductor (d. 2002)
1928 – Alberto Korda, Cuban photographer (d. 2001) (He took the iconic portrait of Che Guevara)
1934 – Kate Millett, American author and activist
1936 – Walter Koenig, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (He played Chekhov on Star Trek)
1942 – Oliver Lake, American saxophonist, flute player, and composer
1944 – Joey Heatherton, American actress, singer, and dancer
1948 – Marc Reisner, American environmentalist and author (d. 2000)
1949 – Fred "Sonic" Smith, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 1994)
1955 – Geraldine Brooks, Australian-American journalist and author
1955 – William Jackson, Scottish harp player and composer
1958 – Beth Nielsen Chapman, American singer-songwriter
1965 – Dmitry Medvedev, Russian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Russia
1983 – Amy Winehouse, English singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
On this day in history…
1741 – George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah
1752 – The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).
1814 – The poem Defense of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key. The poem is later used as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner.
1901 – U.S. President William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
1959 – The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
1984 – Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
2000 – Microsoft releases Windows ME. (hence the origination of the phrase, "meh")