Today Thursday, 22nd of June of 2017 is the 173rd day of the year. There are 192 days remaining until the end of the year. 502 days until Congressional Elections Tuesday November 6, 2018. 1230 days until Presidential Elections Tuesday November 3, 2020. The sun will rise in San Francisco at 5:49 am and sunset will be at 8:36 pm. Today we will have 14 hours and 47 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 1:12 pm.
The first low tide was at 4:44 am
and the next low tide will be at 4:23 pm.
The first high tide will be at 11:47 am
and the next high tide at 10:45 pm.
The Moon is 4.1% illuminated, a Waning Crescent
Moon Direction: ↑ 74.46° ENE
Moon Altitude: 6.57°
Moon Distance: 222921 mi
Next New Moon tomorrow, Friday June 23, 2017 at 7:30 pm
Next Full Moon: July 8, 2017 at 9:06 pm
Next Moonset: Today at 7:08 pm
Today is...
National Chocolate Éclair Day
National Onion Rings Day
Stupid Guy Thing Day
Today is also...
Anti-Fascist Struggle Day in Croatia
Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War in Belarus
Father's Day on the English Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey, as well as The Isle of Man
Teachers' Day in El Salvador
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you! You share this day with...
1757 – George Vancouver, English lieutenant and explorer (d. 1798)
1767 – Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher, academic, and politician, Interior Minister of Prussia (d. 1835)
1845 – Tom Dula, American soldier (d. 1868)
1898 – Erich Maria Remarque, German-Swiss soldier and author (d. 1970), author of All Quiet On The Western Front
1903 – John Dillinger, American criminal (d. 1934)
1906 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American pilot and author (d. 2001)
1933 – Dianne Feinstein, American politician
1936 – Kris Kristofferson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1937 – Chris Blackwell, English record producer, co-founded Island Records
1941 – Ed Bradley, American journalist (d. 2006)
1946 – Eliades Ochoa, Cuban singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1947 – Octavia E. Butler, American author (d. 2006)
1947 – Jerry Rawlings, Ghanaian lieutenant and politician, President of Ghana
1948 – Todd Rundgren, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1949 – Meryl Streep, American actress and singer
1949 – Elizabeth Warren, American academic and politician
1953 – Cyndi Lauper, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1954 – Freddie Prinze, American comedian and actor (d. 1977)
1960 – Erin Brockovich, American lawyer and environmentalist
1960 – Tracy Pollan, American actress
1964 – Dan Brown, American author and academic
On this day in history….
1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.
1825 – The British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
1870 – United States Department of Justice created by the U.S. Congress.
1898 – Spanish–American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.
1907 – The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
1942 – Pledge of Allegiance formally adopted by US Congress
1944 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.
1969 – The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing national attention to water pollution, and spurring the passing of the Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
1984 – Virgin Atlantic Airways launches with its first flight from London Heathrow Airport.
1990 – Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.