Today is Monday, the 5th of November of 2018 is the 309th day of the year.
There are 56 days remaining until the end of the year. 46 days until winter begins
1 day until the mid-term election Tuesday November 6, 2018...
729 days presidential election Tuesday November 3, 2020
(1 year 11 months and 29 days from today)
The sun rises this morning at 6:40 am
and the sun sets at 5:06 pm.
Today we will have 10 hours and 26 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 11:53 am.
The first low tide was at 2:53 am
and the next low tide will be at 3:43 pm.
The first high tide will be at 9:34 am
and the next high tide at 10:11 pm.
The Pollen count is low-medium at 3.1 today, peaking at 4.3 by mid-week and dipping to 3.3 by the end of the week
The Moon is 5.6% visible; a Waning Crescent
Moon Direction: 96.51° E↑
Moon Altitude: 4.55°
Moon Distance: 233686 mi
Next New Moon: Wednesday November 7, 2018 at 8:01 am
Next Full Moon: Thursday November 22, 2018 at 9:39 pm
Next Moonset: Today at 4:26 pm
Today is…
National Doughnut Appreciation Day
National Love Your Red Hair Day
Today is also …
Guy Fawkes Night in United Kingdom, New Zealand and Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
as in 1605 Guy Fawkes is arrested for blowing up Parliament.
West Country Carnival in the English West Country
Ka-na-ka-da-sa Jayanthi in Karnataka, India
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
1855 – Eugene V. Debs, American union leader and politician (d. 1926)
1895 – Walter Gieseking, French-German pianist and composer (d. 1956)
1900 – Natalie Schafer, American actress (d. 1991)
1911 – Roy Rogers, American singer, guitarist, and actor (d. 1998)
1913 – Vivien Leigh, Indian-British actress (d. 1967)
1931 – Ike Turner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (d. 2007)
1941 – Art Garfunkel, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1943 – Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor (d. 2017)
1946 – Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1973)
1953 – Joyce Maynard, American journalist, author, and academic
1954 – Jeffrey Sachs, American economist and academic
1960 – Tilda Swinton, English actress
1963 – Tatum O'Neal, American actress and author
…and on this day in history….
1138 – Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.
1831 – Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.
1872 – Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
1895 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
1916 – The Everett massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police.
1917 – October Revolution: Lenin calls for the October Revolution.
1940 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is the first and only President of the United States to be elected to a third term.
1955 – After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
2007 – Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google.