Wednesday, the 29th of August of 2018 is the 241st day of the year. There are 124 days remaining until the end of the year. 24 days until autumn begins.
69 days until mid-term elections Tuesday November 6, 2018 ...
(2 months and 8 days from today)
797 days until Presidential Elections Tuesday November 3, 2020
(2 years 2 months and 5 days from today)
The sun rises at 6:38 am and
sunset will be at 7:42 pm.
Today we will have 13 hours and 4 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 1:10 pm.
The first high tide will be at 1:35 am
and the next high tide at 2:27 pm.
The first low tide will be at 7:40 am
and the next low tide at 8:03 pm.
A Medium-High pollen count of 7.7 rising to 9 by Sunday
The Moon is 91.3% visible; a Waning Gibbous
Moon Direction: ↑ 220.64° SW
Moon Altitude: 43.41°
Moon Distance: 244990 mi
Next New Moon: Sunday September 9, 2018 at 11:01 am
Next Full Moon: Monday September 24, 2018 at 7:52 pm
Next Moonset: Today 9:32 am
Today is…
National Sarcoidosis Awareness Day
National Swiss Winegrowers Day
Willing-To-Lend-A-Hand Wednesday
It’s also…
International Day against Nuclear Tests
Municipal Police's Day in Poland
Slovak National Uprising Anniversary in Slovakia
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you! You share this day with…
1632 – John Locke, English physician and philosopher (d. 1704)
1809 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., American physician and author (d. 1894)
1915 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
1920 – Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1955)
1923 – Richard Attenborough, English actor, director, and producer (d. 2014)
1924 – Dinah Washington, American singer and pianist (d. 1963)
1936 – John McCain, American captain and politician (d. 2018)
1937 – James Florio, American commander, lawyer, and politician, 49th Governor of New Jersey
1938 – Elliott Gould, American actor and producer
1940 – James Brady, American politician and activist, 15th White House Press Secretary (d. 2014)
1941 – Robin Leach, English journalist and television host (d. 2018)
1955 – Diamanda Galás, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1958 – Michael Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor (d. 2009)
1959 – Eddi Reader, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1967 – Neil Gorsuch, American judge
1968 – Meshell Ndegeocello, German-American singer-songwriter
2001 – Ahmed Mohamed, victim of racial profiling.
…and on this day in history…
708 – Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
1786 – Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.
1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
1898 – The Goodyear tire company is founded.
1911 – Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
1930 – The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
1970 – Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Rubén Salazar.
1991 – Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
1997 – Netflix is launched as an internet DVD rental service.
2005 – Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing up to 1,836 people and causing $125 billion in damage.