Almanac for November 23
Today is the 237th day of the year, there are 38 days remaining in 2018.
The sun rose today at 6:58 AM and will set at 4:53 PM, there will be nine hours and 55 minutes of daylight
The moon is full today. It will set at 7:16 AM
The first low tide was at 4:32am, the next low tide will be at 5:27pm. High tide will be at 10:48am
Today is:
Black Friday
Buy Nothing Day
Doctor Who Day
National Cashew Day
Eat a Cranberry Day
Fibonacci Day
Maize Day
National Espresso Day
National Flossing Day
National Native American Heritage Day
National Day of Listening
If today is your birthday, happy birthday to you! You share this birthday with:
1887 – Boris Karloff, English actor (d. 1969)
1888 – Harpo Marx, American comedian and musician (d. 1964)
1892 – Erté, Russian-French illustrator and designer (d. 1990)
1926 – R. L. Burnside, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005)
1928 – Jerry Bock, American composer (d. 2010)
1932 – Kunie Tanaka, Japanese actor
1948 – Bruce Vilanch, American actor and screenwriter
1952 – Bill Troiano, American tuba player and educator
1953 – Rick Bayless, American chef and author
1960 – Robin Roberts, American sportscaster and journalist
1992 – Miley Cyrus, American singer-songwriter and actress
A few things that happened today in history:
534 BC – Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.
1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
1924 – Edwin Hubble's discovery that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.
1963 – The BBC broadcasts the first episode of Doctor Who, An Unearthly Child. William Hartnell played the Doctor
1992 – The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.
2005 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country.