Today Wednesday, the 2nd of August of 2017 is the 214th day of the year...
There are 151 days remaining until the end of the year.
461 days until mid-term elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018 (1 year 3 months and 4 days from today)
1189 days until presidential elections on Tuesday November 3, 2020 (3 years 3 months and 1 day from today)
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:15 am
and the sun will set at 8:17 pm.
Today we will have 14 hours and 2 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 1:16 pm.
The first low tide was at 2:58 am
and the next low tide will be at 2:29 pm.
The first high tide will be at 10:02 am
and the next high tide at 8:42 pm
The Moon is 76.2% illuminated; a Waxing Gibbous moon
Moon Direction: ↑ 274.65° W
Moon Altitude: -35.48°
Moon Distance: 251651 mi
Next Full Moon: Monday, August 7, 2017 at 11:10 am
Next New Moon: Aug 21, 2017 at 11:30 am
Next Moonrise: Today at 4:29 pm
Today is…
Dinosaurs Day
National Coloring Book Day
National Ice Cream Sandwich Day
It's also…
Airmobile Forces Day in Ukraine
Day of Azerbaijani cinema in Azerbaijan
Our Lady of the Angels Day in Costa Rica
Paratroopers Day in Russia
Republic Day in Macedonia
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
1892 – Jack L. Warner, Canadian-born American production manager and producer, co-founded Warner Bros. (d. 1978)
1897 – Max Weber, Swiss lawyer and politician (d. 1974)
1905 – Myrna Loy, American actress (d. 1993)
1911 – Ann Dvorak, American actress (d. 1979)
1923 – Shimon Peres, Polish-Israeli lawyer and politician, 9th President of Israel (d. 2016)
1924 – James Baldwin, the American essayist, novelist and playwright whose work explored racial issues (d. 1987)
1924 – Carroll O'Connor, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2001)
1932 – Peter O'Toole, British-Irish actor and producer (d. 2013)
1937 – Garth Hudson, Canadian keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
1939 – Wes Craven, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1942 – Isabel Allende, Chilean-American novelist, essayist, essayist
1944 – Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian singer and berimbau player (d. 2016)
On this day in history…
216 BC – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae.
1610 – During Henry Hudson's search for the Northwest Passage, he sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay.
1776 – The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
1790 – The first United States Census is conducted.
1923 – The 29th president of the United States, Warren G. Harding, died in San Francisco. Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office as President of the United States.
1934 – German President Paul von Hindenburg died, paving the way for Adolf Hitler's complete takeover.
1937 – The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
1939 – Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
1943 – Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at Treblinka, one of the deadliest of Nazi death camps where approximately 900,000 persons were murdered in less tha
n 18 months.
1943 – World War II: The Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. President, saves all but two of his crew.
1945 – President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Clement Attlee concluded the Potsdam conference.
1964 – The Pentagon reported the first of two attacks on U.S. destroyers by North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.