Today is Wednesday, the 21st of November of 2018. It is the 325th day of the year. There are 40 days remaining until the end of the year. 30 days until winter begins. 713 days until presidential elections on Tuesday November 3, 2020
(1 year 11 months and 13 days from today)
The sun rises at 6:57 am
and sunset will be at 4:54 pm.
Tomorrow we will have 9 hours and 57 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 11:55 am.
The first low tide was at 3:09 am
and the next low tide at 4:05 pm.
The first high tide will be at 9:36 am
and the next high tide at 10:52 pm.
The Moon is 96.3% visible; a Waxing Gibbous
Next Full Moon: Tomorrow, Thursday November 22, 2018 at 9:39 pm
It will be a Full Beaver Moon.
For both the colonists and the Algonquin tribes, this was the time to set beaver traps before the swamps froze, to ensure a supply of warm winter furs. This full Moon was also called the Frost Moon.
Next New Moon: Thursday December 6, 2018 at 11:20 pm
Moon Direction: 278.98° W↑
Moon Altitude: 2.73°
Moon Distance: 236242 mi
Next Moonset: Today at 5:03 am
Today is…
Geographic Information Systems Day
National Family Caregivers Day
National Red Mitten Day in Canada
What Do You Love About America Day
Today is also…
Air Assault Forces Day in Ukraine
Armed Forces Day in Bangladesh and in Greece
General Framework Agreement Day in Republika Srpska
World Television Day, a United Nations observance
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
1694 – Voltaire, French historian, playwright, and philosopher (d. 1778)
1852 – Francisco Tárrega, Spanish guitarist and composer (d. 1909)
1902 – Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
1904 – Coleman Hawkins, American saxophonist and clarinet player (d. 1969)
1937 – Marlo Thomas, American actress, producer, and activist
1945 – Goldie Hawn, American actress, singer, and producer
1965 – Björk, Icelandic singer-songwriter
…and on this day in history…
164 BC – Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
1620 – Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact (November 11, O.S.)
1877 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
1905 – Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.
1922 – Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator.
1945 – The United Auto Workers strike 92 General Motors plants in 50 cities to back up worker demands for a 30-percent raise.
1959 – American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term "rock and roll" and music of that style, is fired from WABC-AM radio over allegations he had participated in the payola scandal.
1969 – The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.
1986 – National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents allegedly implicating them in the Iran–Contra affair.
2017 – Robert Mugabe formally resigns as President of Zimbabwe, after thirty-seven years in office.