Today Wednesday, 28th of June of 2017 is the 179th day of the year.
There are 186 days remaining until the end of the year.
496 days until Congressional Elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018;
1224 days until the next Presidential Election on Tuesday November 3, 2020...
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 5:51 am
and sunset will be at 8:36 pm.
Today we will have 14 hours and 45 minutes of daylight.
Solar Noon will be at 1:13 pm.
The first high tide was at 2:59 am
and the next high tide will be at 4:53 pm.
The first low tide will be at 9:35 am
and the next low tide at 10:17 pm.
The Moon is 24.8% illuminated; a Waxing Crescent moon
Moon Direction: ↑ 359.79° N
Moon Altitude: -42.89°
Moon Distance: 234783 mi
Next Full Moon: Saturday July 8, 2017 at 9:06 pm
Next New Moon: July 23, 2017 at 2:45 am
Next Moonrise: Today at 11:01 am
Today is...
Insurance Awareness Day
International Body Piercing Day
INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY
National Tapioca Day
Paul Bunyan Day
Tau Day
It's also...
Constitution Day in Ukraine
Family Day in Vietnam
Poznań Remembrance Day in Poland
Vidovdan, celebrating St. Vitus and an important day in Serbian history and in the Eastern Orthodox Church
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with...
1491 – Henry VIII of England (d. 1547)
1577 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter and diplomat (d. 1640)
1902 – Richard Rodgers, American playwright and composer (d. 1979)
1926 – Mel Brooks, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1932 – Pat Morita, American actor (d. 2005)
1938 – John Byner, American actor and comedian
1938 – Leon Panetta, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of Defense
1946 – Gilda Radner, American actress and comedian (d. 1989)
1948 – Kathy Bates, American actress
1966 – Bobby Bare Jr., American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1966 – John Cusack, American actor and screenwriter
1966 – Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress
1971 – Elon Musk, South African-born American businessman
On this day in history...
1635 – Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
1838 – Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
1846 – Adolphe Sax patents the saxophone.
1894 – Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
1919 – The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War I.
1926 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
1964 – Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
1969 – Stonewall riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.
1978 – The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
1997 – Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off EvanderHolyfield's ear.
2001 – Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.
2004 – Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
2007 – The American bald eagle was removed from the endangered species list.
2010 – The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Americans have the right to own a gun for self-defense anywhere they live.