Today Tuesday, the 8th of August of 2017 is the 220th day of the year….
There are 145 days remaining until the end of the year.
455 days until Mid-Term elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018
(1 year 2 months and 29 days from today)
1183 days until Presidential Elections on Tuesday November 3, 2020
(3 years 2 months and 26 days from today)
The sun rose this morning at 6:20 am
and sunset will be at 8:10 pm.
Today we will have 13 hours and 50 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 1:15 pm.
The first high tide was at 12:06am
and the next high tide will be at 1:41 pm.
The first low tide will be at 6:39 am
and the next low tide at 6:38 pm.
The Moon is 99.4% illuminated; now a Waning Gibbous moon
Moon Direction:↑ 232.80° SW
Moon Altitude:19.91°
Moon Distance: 243759 mi
Next New Moon: Monday Aug 21, 2017 at 11:30 am, same day as the big eclipse
Next Full Moon: Sep 6, 2017 at 12:02 am
Next Moonset: Today at 7:11 am
Today is…
Happiness Happens Day
International Cat Day
National Dollar Day
National Frozen Custard Day
National Zucchini Day
Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day
It’s also…
Ceasefire Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)
Father's Day or Bā bā Day (爸爸節), Bā Bā is Mandarin for "father" and "8-8", or August 8. (Mongolia, Taiwan)
Namesday of the Queen (Sweden)
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you! You share this day with…
1879 – | Emiliano Zapata, Mexican guerrilla in the Mexican Revolution of 1911-7 (d. 1919) |
1896 – Marjorie Rawlings, the American author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning book "The Yearling"
1907 – Benny Carter, American saxophonist, trumpet player, and composer (d. 2003)
1919 – Dino De Laurentiis, Italian actor and producer (d. 2010)
1920 – Jimmy Witherspoon, American jump blues singer (d. 1997)
1921 – Webb Pierce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1991)
1921 – Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (d. 2013)
1922 – Rory Calhoun, American actor (d. 1999)
1932 – Mel Tillis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1933 – Joe Tex, American soul singer-songwriter (d. 1982)
1937 – Dustin Hoffman, American actor and director
1944 – John Renbourn, English-Scottish guitarist and songwriter (d. 2015)
1951 – Randy Shilts, American journalist and author (d. 1994)
1961 – The Edge, British-Irish musician, singer and songwriter
1962 – Kool Moe Dee, American musician, singer and actor
On this day in history…
1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
1929 – The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
1963 – Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal £2.6 million in bank notes.
1969 – At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the iconic photo that becomes the cover image of the Beatles' album Abbey Road.
1974 – President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.
1990 – Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.
1991 – The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses