It's Indigenous Peoples Day...
Today is Monday, the 12th of October of 2020...
It is the 286th day of the year
80 days remain until the end of the year.
22 days until Election Day Tuesday November 3, 2020
the sun rises at 7:16 am
and sunset will be at 6:35 pm.
Today we will have 11 hours and 19 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 12:55 pm.
The first low tide was at 2:17 am
The first high tide will be at 9:43 am
The next low tide will be at 2:50 pm.
and the final high tide at Aquatic Park will be at 8:38 pm.
The Moon is currently 25.0% visible; a Waning Crescent
Next New Moon: Oct 16, 2020, 12:31 pm | |
Today is… International Moment of Frustration Scream Day Today is also… |
Día de la Hispanidad or Fiesta Nacional de España, also Armed Forces Day (Spain)
Día de la Raza (El Salvador, Uruguay)
Día de la Resistencia Indígena, "Day of Indigenous Resistance" (Venezuela)
Día de las Culturas, "Day of the Cultures" (Costa Rica)
Día del Respeto a la Diversidad Cultural, "Day of respect for cultural diversity" (Argentina)
Discovery Day (The Bahamas, Colombia)
Feast for Life of Aleister Crowley, celebrated as "Crowleymas" (Thelema)
Fiesta Nacional de España (Spain)
Independence Day in Equatorial Guinea, celebrates the independence of Equatorial Guinea from Spain in 1968.
International Day Against Digital rights management
On this day in history…
1279 – The Nichiren Shōshū branch of Buddhism is founded in Japan.
1492 – Christopher Columbus's first expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas.
1692 – The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Province of Massachusetts Bay Governor William Phips.
1773 – America's first insane asylum opens.
1810 – The citizens of Munich hold the first Oktoberfest.
1847 – Werner von Siemens founds Siemens & Halske, which later becomes Siemens AG.
1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools.
1901 – President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
1928 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Boston Children's Hospital.
1933 – The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
1960 – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at the United Nations to protest a Philippine assertion.
1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, dies five days after he was beaten outside of Laramie.
1687 – Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German lute player and composer (d. 1750)
1866 – Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1937)
1872 – Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer and educator (d. 1958)
1875 – Aleister Crowley, English magician and author (d. 1947)
1921 – Art Clokey, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor, created Gumby (d. 2010)
1932 – Dick Gregory, American comedian, actor, and author (d. 2017)
1935 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor and actor (d. 2007)
1947 – Chris Wallace, American journalist
1949 – Carlos the Jackal, Venezuelan convicted of terrorism and murderer
1950 – Susan Anton, American actress and model
1955 – Jane Siberry, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
1968 – Hugh Jackman, Australian actor, singer, and producer