Today is Wednesday, the 30th of January of 2019. It is the 30th day of the year. There are 335 days remaining until the end of the year. 49 days until spring begins...
and 643 days until presidential elections on Tuesday November 3, 2020...
(1 year 9 months and 4 days from today)
The sun rises at 7:15 am
and the sun sets at 5:33 pm.
We will have 10 hours and 18 minutes of daylight, today.
Solar noon will be at 12:24 pm.
The first low tide was at 12:48 am
and the next low tide at 2:20 pm.
The first high tide will be at 7:14 am
and the next high tide at 9:23 pm.
The Moon is currently 23.9% visible
a Waning Crescent
Moon Direction: 138.82° SE↑
Moon Altitude: 21.48°
Moon Distance: 245649 mi
Next New Moon: Monday February 4, 2019 at 1:03 pm
Lunar New Year is the following day, Tuesday February 5. It will be the Year of the Pig.
Next Full Moon: Tuesday February 19, 2019 at 7:53 am
Next Moonset: Today at 1:28 pm
Today is…
National Inane Answering Message Day
School Day of Non-violence and Peace
Today is also…
Fred Korematsu Day in California, Florida, Hawaii, and Virginia
Martyrdom of Mahatma Gandhi, and its related observances:
School Day of Non-violence and Peace in Spain
Start of the Season for Nonviolence January 30 - April 4
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! you share this day with…
1862 – Walter Damrosch, German-American conductor and composer (d. 1950)
1882 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, American lawyer and politician, 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945)
1911 – Roy Eldridge, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1989)
1912 – Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian and author (d. 1989)
1919 – Fred Korematsu, American activist (d. 2005)
1922 – Dick Martin, American comedian, actor, and director (d. 2008)
1927 – Olof Palme, Swedish statesman, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)
1930 – Gene Hackman, American actor and author
1935 – Richard Brautigan, American novelist, poet, and short story writer (d. 1984)
1937 – Vanessa Redgrave, English actress
1937 – Boris Spassky, Russian chess player and theoretician
1941 – Dick Cheney, American businessman and politician, 46th Vice President of the United States
1942 – Marty Balin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2018)
1947 – Les Barker, English poet and author
1951 – Phil Collins, English drummer, singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1974 – Christian Bale, English actor
…and on this day in history…
1847 – Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco, California.
1908 – Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts in South Afica after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
1948 – Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
1956 – African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1968 – Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.
1969 – The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
1972 – The Troubles: Bloody Sunday: British paratroopers open fire on anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing 13 people; another person later dies of injuries sustained.
1975 – The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.
1979 – A Varig Boeing 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
1982 – Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
1995 – Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.