Today Tuesday, 11th of October of 2016 is the 285th day of the year
There are 81 days remaining until the end of the year.
28 Days until Election Day
13 Days to Register To Vote
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 7:16 am
and sunset will be at 6:36 pm.
Today we will have 11 hours and 20 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 12:56 pm.
The first low tide was at 1:56 am
and the next low tide will be at 2:34 pm.
The first high tide will be at 9:08 am
and the next high tide at 8:27 pm.
The Moon is 73.3% illuminated, a Waxing Gibbous moon.
Moonrise Today: 4:02 PM↑ 106° East
Moonset Today: 2:07 AM↑ 252° West
Full Moon 15th of October of 2016 at 9:23 pm in 5 days
Last Quarter Moon 22th of October of 2016 at 12:14 pm in 11 days
New Moon 30th of October of 2016 at 10:38 am in 19 days
First Quarter Moon 7th of November of 2016 at 12:51 pm in 27 days
Yom Kippur begins tonight at sundown
Today is "You Go, Girl" Day!
Today is Ada Lovelace Day
Myths and Legends Day
National Coming Out Day
National Food Truck Day
National It's My Party Day
National Sausage Pizza Day
Southern Food Heritage Day
General Pulaski Memorial Day (United States)
International Day of the Girl Child
International Newspaper Carrier Day
Old Michaelmas Day (Celtic)
Revolution Day (Republic of Macedonia)
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your special day with...
1884 – Eleanor Roosevelt, American humanitarian and politician, 39th First Lady of the United States (d. 1962)
1905 – Fred Trump, American businessman (d. 1999)
1918 – Jerome Robbins, American director, producer, and choreographer (d. 1998)
1919 – Art Blakey, American drummer and bandleader (d. 1990)
1926 – Thích Nhất Hạnh, Vietnamese monk, author, and poet
1936 – Billy Higgins, American drummer and educator (d. 2001)
1941 – Lester Bowie, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1999)
1942 – Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor, singer, and producer
1944 – Mike Fiore, American baseball player
1946 – Daryl Hall, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1966 – Todd Snider, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
On this day in history...
1138 – A massive earthquake strikes Aleppo, Syria.
1906 – San Francisco public school board sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
1910 – Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert–St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.
1811The first steam-powered ferryboat was put into operation between New York City and Hoboken, N.J.
1950 – Television: CBS's mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
On Oct. 11, 1962, Pope John XXIII convened the first session of the Roman Catholic Church's 21st Ecumenical Council, better known as Vatican II.
On Oct. 11, 1968, Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard.
1975 – The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuts.
1986 – Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe.
1987 – First public display of AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., during the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
1986President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened two days of talks on arms control and human rights in Reykjavik, Iceland.
1991Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, law professor Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexually harassing her; Thomas reappeared before the panel to denounce the proceedings as a "high-tech lynching."
1998Pope John Paul II canonized the first Jewish-born saint of the modern era: Edith Stein, a Catholic nun killed at Auschwitz.
2001 – The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
2001Trinidad-born writer V.S. Naipaul won the Nobel Prize in literature.
2002The Senate joined the House in approving the use of America's military might against Iraq.
2002Former President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize for his 1970s Middle East diplomacy.