Today Monday, the 28th of August of 2017 is the 240th day of the year....
There are 125 days remaining until the end of the year.
435 days until Mid-Term Elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018
(1 year 2 months and 9 days from today)
1163 days until Presidential Elections Tuesday November 3, 2020
(Tuesday 3 years 2 months and 6 days from today)
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:38 am
and sunset will be at 7:44 pm.
Today we will have 13 hours and 6 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 1:11 pm.
The first high tide was just now at 5:36am
and the next high tide at 5:19 pm.
The only low tide of the day will be at 10:53 am.
The Moon is 42.1% illuminated; a Waxing Crescent
Moon Direction: ↑ 315.23° NW
Moon Altitude: -60.04°
Moon Distance: 249675 mi
Next Full Moon: Sep 6, 201712:02 am
Next New Moon: Sep 19, 201710:29 pm
Next Moonrise:Today1:26 pm
Today is…
Crackers Over The Keyboard Day
Dream Day Quest and Jubilee
International Read Comics in Public Day
Motorist Consideration Monday
National Bow Tie Day
National Cherry Turnovers Day
Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day
Radio Commercial Day
Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day
Red Wine Day
It’s also…
National Grandparents Day (Mexico)
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you! You share this day with…
1749 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat (d. 1832)
1899 – Charles Boyer, French-American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1978)
1903 – Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American psychologist and author (d. 1990)
1908 – Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and author (d. 1996)
1913 – Robertson Davies, Canadian journalist, author, and playwright (d. 1995)
1916 – Jack Vance, American author (d. 2013)
1917 – Jack Kirby, American author and illustrator (d. 1994)
1921 – Nancy Kulp, American actress and soldier (d. 1991)
1928 – Vilayat Khan, Indian sitar player and composer (d. 2004)
1930 – Ben Gazzara, American actor (d. 2012)
1969 – Jack Black, American actor and comedian
1982 – LeAnn Rimes, American singer-songwriter and actress
On this day in history….
1830 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in US railroads.
1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives royal assent, abolishing slavery through most of the British Empire.
1845 – The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published
1898 – CalebBradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "Pepsi-Cola".
1917 – Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.
1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent Civil Rights Movement.
1957 – U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech
1968 – Rioting takes place in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention, triggering a brutal police crackdown.
1993 – The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida, the first known asteroid moon.