Today is Wednesday, the 24th of October of 2018, the 297th day of 2018.
There are 68 days left in the year. 58 days until winter begins.
13 days until The Election Tuesday November 6, 2018
The sun will rise at 7:28 am
and sunset will be at 6:19 pm.
Today we will have 10 hours and 51 minutes of sun.
The solar transit will be at 12:53 pm.
the first low tide will be at 5:24am
and the next low tide at 6:02 pm.
The only high tide of the day will be at 11:50 am.
A low-medium pollen count of 2.6 today. Rising to 4.3 this weekend.
The Moon is 99.8% visible; a Near Full Moon (Waxing Gibbous)
Next Full Moon: later this morning Oct 24, 2018 at 9:45 am
It’s a 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 Nov 7, 2018 at 8:01 am
Next Moonset: Today at 7:16 am
Today is…
Today is also…
Day of Special Forces of the Armed Forces (Russia)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Zambia from United Kingdom in 1964.
United Nations Day, the anniversary of the 1945 Charter of the United Nations (International)
World Development Information Day
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
1911 – Sonny Terry, American singer and harmonica player (d. 1986)
1915 – Bob Kane, American author and illustrator (d. 1998)
1915 – Roger Milliken, American businessman (d. 2010)
1923 – Denise Levertov, British-born American poet (d. 1997)
1929 – Jim Brosnan, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2014)
1929 – George Crumb, American composer and educator
1930 – The Big Bopper, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1959)
1932 – Stephen Covey, American author and educator (d. 2012)
1932 – Adrian Mitchell, English journalist, author, poet, and playwright (d. 2008)
1954 – Malcolm Turnbull, Australian journalist and politician, 29th Prime Minister of Australia
1986 – Drake, Canadian rapper and actor
Rock musician Bill Wyman is 82.
Actor F. Murray Abraham is 79.
Actor Kevin Kline is 71.
Former NAACP President Kweisi Mfume (kwah-EE'-see oom-FOO'-may) is 70.
Actor B.D. Wong is 58.
…and on this day in history…
In 1861, the first transcontinental telegraph message was sent by Chief Justice Stephen J. Field of California from San Francisco to President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C., over a line built by the Western Union Telegraph Co.
In 1931, the George Washington Bridge, connecting New York and New Jersey, was officially dedicated (it opened to traffic the next day).
In 1939, nylon stockings were sold publicly for the first time, in Wilmington, Delaware.
In 1940, the 40-hour work week went into effect under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
In 1945, the United Nations officially came into existence as its charter took effect.
In 1952, Republican presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower declared in Detroit, "I shall go to Korea" as he promised to end the conflict. (He made the visit over a month later.)
In 1962, a naval quarantine of Cuba ordered by President John F. Kennedy went into effect during the missile crisis.
In 1989, former television evangelist Jim Bakker (BAY'-kur) was sentenced by a judge in Charlotte, N.C., to 45 years in prison for fraud and conspiracy. (The sentence was later reduced to eight years; it was further reduced to four for good behavior.)
Five years ago: President Barack Obama made a plea for Republican cooperation on immigration, telling a White House event, "Rather than create problems, let's prove to the American people that Washington can actually solve some problems."
One year ago: Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona announced that he would not seek re-election in 2018; he'd been critical of the path the GOP had taken under President Donald Trump.