Today is Tuesday, September 4, 2018, the 247th day of the year.
There are 118 days left in the year.
63 days until mid-term elections Tuesday November 6, 2018...
(2 months and 2 days from today)
791 days until presidential elections Tuesday November 3, 2020
(2 years 1 month and 30 days from today)
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:43 am
and sunset will be at 7:33 pm.
we will have 12 hours and 50 minutes of daylight, today.
The solar transit will be at 1:08 pm.
The first low tide will be at 1:10 am
and the next low tide at 12:58 pm.
The first high tide will be at 8:31 am
and the next high tide at 7:14 pm.
A medium-high pollen count today of 8.2 leveling down to 7.6 by the weekend
The Moon is 34.5% visible; a Waning Crescent
Moon Direction:↑ 100.73° E
Moon Altitude:46.48°
Moon Distance:229681 mi
Next New Moon:Sep 9, 201811:01 am
Next Full Moon:Sep 24, 20187:52 pm
Next Moonset:Today3:48 pm
Today is…
National Newspaper Carrier Day
It’s also…
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
1824 – Anton Bruckner, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1896)
1892 – Darius Milhaud, French composer and educator (d. 1974)
1912 – Syd Hoff, American author and illustrator (d. 2004)
1918 – Paul Harvey, American radio host (d. 2009)
1928 – Dick York, American actor (d. 1992)
1929 – Thomas Eagleton, American lawyer and politician, 38th Lieutenant Governor of Missouri (d. 2007)
1931 – Mitzi Gaynor, American actress, singer, and dancer
1944 – Gene Parsons, American singer-songwriter, drummer, guitarist, and banjo player
1946 – Dave Liebman, American saxophonist, flute player, and composer
1955 – David Broza, Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist
1960 – Damon Wayans, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1981 – Beyoncé, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actress
1984 – Kyle Mooney, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
…and on this day in history…
1781 – Los Angeles is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels) by 44 Spanish settlers.
1882 – The Pearl Street Station in New York City becomes the first power plant to supply electricity to paying customers.
1888 – George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
1949 – The Peekskill riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York.
On Sept. 4, 1951, President Harry S. Truman addressed the nation from the Japanese peace treaty conference in San Francisco in the first live, coast-to-coast television broadcast.
In 1962, The Beatles, with their new drummer, Ringo Starr, recorded "Love Me Do" at EMI Studios in London. (The more familiar version with substitute drummer Andy White and Starr playing the tambourine was recorded a week later.)
1957 – American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis: Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School.
1957 – The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
1970 – Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.
1972 – Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.
1972 – The Price Is Right premieres on CBS. As of 2018, it is the longest running game show on American television.
1975 – The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab–Israeli conflict is signed.
1977 – The Golden Dragon massacre takes place in San Francisco.
1985 – The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
In 1987, a Soviet court convicted West German pilot Mathias Rust of charges stemming from his daring flight to Moscow's Red Square, and sentenced him to four years in a labor camp. (Rust was released in August 1988.)
1989 – In Leipzig, East Germany, the first of weekly demonstration for the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms takes place.
In 1999, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat signed a breakthrough land-for-security agreement during a ceremony in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
1998 – Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
2001 – Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.
2002 – The Oakland Athletics win their 20th consecutive game, an American League record.
In 2006, "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, 44, died after a stingray's barb pierced his chest.
Ten years ago in 2008
With a pledge that "change is coming," Sen. John McCain accepted the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, vowing to vanquish what he called the "constant partisan rancor" gripping Washington.
In 2014, comedian Joan Rivers died at a New York hospital at age 81, a week after going into cardiac arrest in a doctor's office during a routine medical procedure.