Today Tuesday, 8th of November of 2016 is the 313rd day of the year.
There are 53 days remaining until the end of the year.
Today is Election Day!
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:44 am
and the sun will set at 5:03 pm.
Today we will have 10 hours and 19 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 11:54 am.
The first high tide will be at 6:35 am
and the next high tide at 5:48 pm.
The only low tide of the day will be at 12:15 pm.
The Moon is 51% illuminated, now a Waxing Gibbous
We will have a Full Moon in 6 days next Monday the 14th of November of 2016 at 5:52 am
Last Quarter Moonin 13 days Monday the 21st of November of 2016 at 12:33 am
New Moon in 21 days Tuesday the 29th of November of 2016 at 4:18 am
First Quarter Moonin 28 days on Wednesday the 7th of December of 2016 at 1:03 am
Today is Abet and Aid Punsters Day
Cook Something Bold Day
National Ample Time Day
National Cappuccino Day
National Dunce Day
National Harvey Wallbanger Day
National Parents as Teachers Day
National Young Reader's Day
It's also…
International Day of Radiology
Intersex Day of Remembrance
One of the Mundus patet for listeners in the Roman Empire
Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the other Bodiless Powers of Heaven for the Eastern Orthodox Church
World Urbanism Day
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You get to share birthday cake with...
1836 – Milton Bradley, American businessman, founded the Milton Bradley Company (d. 1911)
1847 – Bram Stoker, Anglo-Irish author and critic, created Count Dracula (d. 1912)
1884 – Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (d. 1922)
1897 – Dorothy Day, American journalist and activist (d. 1980)
1900 – Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (d. 1949)
1908 – Martha Gellhorn, American journalist and author (d. 1998)
1924 – Joe Flynn, American actor (d. 1974) (Captain Binghampton on McHale's Navy)
1927 – Patti Page, American singer and actress (d. 2013)
1931 – Morley Safer, Canadian-American journalist and author (d. 2016)
1947 – Minnie Riperton, American singer-songwriter (d. 1979)
1949 – Wayne LaPierre, American businessman, author, and activist
1949 – Bonnie Raitt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1954 – Timothy Egan, American journalist and author
1954 – Rickie Lee Jones, American singer-songwriter and producer
1975 – Tara Reid, American actress
On this day in history….
1519 – Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration.
1889 – Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
1892 – The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.
1895 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
1933 – Great Depression: New Deal: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed.
1960 – John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the 20th century to become the 35th president of the United States.
1966 – Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
1972 – HBO launches its programming, with the broadcast of the 1971 movie Sometimes a Great Notion, starring Paul Newman and Henry Fonda.