Today is King Tut Day...
Today is Wednesday, the 4th of November of 2020
November 4 is the 309th day of the year.
57 days remain until the end of the year.
The sun rises at 6:39 am
and the sun will set at 5:07 pm.
Today we will have 10 hours and 28 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 11:53 am
The first high tide was at 2:38 am
The first low tide will be at 7:01 am
The next high tide will be at 12:58 pm.
and the final low tide at Aquatic Park will be at 7:43 pm.
The Moon is 86.7% visible
It’s a Waning Gibbous moon
Last Quarter Moon in 4 days on Sunday the 8th of November of 2020 at 5:46 am
Today is…
International Stress Awareness Day
National Waiting for the Barbarians Day
Today is also…
Community Service Day in Dominica
National Unity and Armed Forces Day or Giorno dell'Unità Nazionale e Festa delle Forze Armate in Italy
On this day in history….
1677 – The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange; they later jointly reign as William and Mary.
1737 – The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated in Naples, Italy.
1780 – The Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II against Spanish rule in the Viceroyalty of Peru begins.
1783 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, a Scottish physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.
1890 – City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
1924 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States.
1970 – Salvador Allende takes office as President of Chile, the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections.
1973 – The Netherlands experiences the first Car-Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are used only by cyclists and roller skaters.
1979 – Iran hostage crisis: A group of Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages.
1980 – Ronald Reagan is elected the 40th President of The United States, defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter.
1995 – Israel-Palestinian conflict: Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Israeli.
2008 – Barack Obama becomes the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected President of the United States.
1879 – Will Rogers, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1935)
1916 – Walter Cronkite, American journalist, voice actor, and producer (d. 2009)
1916 – Ruth Handler, American businesswoman, created Barbie (d. 2002)
1918 – Art Carney, American actor (d. 2003)
1918 – Cameron Mitchell, American actor (d. 1994)
1919 – Martin Balsam, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1937 – Loretta Swit, American actress and singer
1940 – Delbert McClinton, American singer-songwriter
1946 – Laura Bush, American educator and librarian, 45th First Lady of the United States
1946 – Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (d. 1989)
1953 – Peter Lord, English animator, director, and producer, co-founded Aardman Animations
1960 – Kathy Griffin, American comedian and actress
1969 – Sean “P Diddy” Combs, American rapper, producer, and actor
Today is also the birthday of KALW's Elections Coverage Manager Sonia Narang