Today is Tuesday, the 23rd of October of 2018. It is the 296th day of the year.
There are 69 days remaining until the end of the year. 59 days until winter begins
14 days until the election Tuesday November 6, 2018. ..
The sun rises this morning at 7:27 am
and sunset will be at 6:20 pm.
Today we will have 10 hours and 53 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 12:53 pm.
The first low tide was at 4:50 am
and the next low tide will be at 5:27 pm.
The first high tide will be at 11:22 am
and the next high tide at 11:57 pm.
The pollen count is low today, 2.3, rising to a medium-low of 4.6 by the weekend.
The Moon is 98.2% visible; a Waxing Gibbous
Moon Direction: ↑ 258.92° W
Moon Altitude: 15.63°
Moon Distance: 241525 mi
Next Full Moon: tomorrow, Wednesday morning October 24, 2018 at 9:45 am
It will be the Full Hunter’s Moon.
This is the month when the leaves are falling and the game is fattened. Now is the time for hunting and laying in a store of provisions for the long winter ahead. October’s Moon is also known as the Travel Moon and the Dying Moon.
Next New Moon: Wednesday November 7, 2018 at 8:01 am
Next Moonset: Today at 6:14 am
Today is…
National Slap Your Irritating Co-Worker Day
Swallows Depart from San Juan Capistrano Day
Today is also…
Day of the Macedonian Revolutionary Struggle in the Republic of Macedonia
Paris Peace Agreement Day in Cambodia
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
1006 – Wen Yanbo, Chinese grand chancellor (d. 1097)
1923 – Ned Rorem, American composer and author
1925 – Johnny Carson, American comedian and talk show host (d. 2005)
1927 – Leszek Kołakowski, Polish-English historian and philosopher (d. 2009)
1935 – Chi-Chi Rodríguez, Puerto Rican-American golfer
1940 – Ellie Greenwich, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Raindrops) (d. 2009)
1940 – Pelé, Brazilian footballer and actor
1949 – Nick Tosches, American journalist, author, and poet
1956 – Dianne Reeves, American singer
1956 – Dwight Yoakam, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1957 – Paul Kagame, Rwandan soldier and politician, 6th President of Rwanda
1958 – Michael Eric Dyson, American activist, author, and academic
1959 – Sam Raimi, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1959 – "Weird Al" Yankovic, American singer-songwriter, comedian, and actor
1965 – Augusten Burroughs, American author and screenwriter
…and on this day of history…
42 BC – Liberators' civil war: Second Battle of Philippi: Mark Antony and Octavian decisively defeat Brutus's army. Brutus commits suicide.
1850 – The first National Women's Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
1861 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C., for all military-related cases.
1915 – Women's suffrage: In New York City, 25,000–33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote.
1917 – Lenin calls for the October Revolution.
1929 – Wall Street Crash of 1929. After a steady decline in stock market prices since a peak in September, the New York Stock Exchange begins to crash.
1956 – Thousands of Hungarians protest against the government and Soviet occupation. (The Hungarian Revolution is crushed on November 4).
1958 – The Springhill Mine bump: An earthquake traps 174 miners in the No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest coal mine in North America at the time. By November 1, rescuers from around the world had dug out 100 of the victims, marking the death toll at 74.
1973 – The Watergate scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.
1998 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a "land for peace" agreement.
2002 – Moscow theater hostage crisis: Chechen terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.