Today is Monday, the 13th of August of 2018. It is the 225th day of the year.
There are 140 days remaining until the end of the year.
85 days until mid-term elections Tuesday November 6, 2018...
(2 months and 24 days from today)
813 days until presidential election Tuesday November 3, 2020
(2 years 2 months and 21 days from today)
The sun rises at 6:24 am
and sunset will be at 8:04 pm.
Today we will have 13 hours and 40 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 1:14 pm.
The first high tide was at 1:03 am
and the next high tide will be at 2:24 pm.
The first low tide will be at 7:28 am
and the next low tide at 7:45 pm.
A low-to-medium pollen count of 2.8 today, rising to a medium count of 5.3 by the end of the week
The Moon is 6.5% visible
Now, a Waxing Crescent
Moon Direction: ↑ 41.27° NE
Moon Altitude: -36.31°
Moon Distance: 226762 mi
Next Full Moon: Sunday August 26, 2018 at 4:56 am
Next New Moon: Sunday September 9, 2018 at 11:01 am
Next Moonrise: Today at 8:59 am
Today is…
International Left-Handers Day
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
1818 – Lucy Stone, American abolitionist and suffragist (d. 1893)
1860 – Annie Oakley, American target shooter (d. 1926)
1895 – Bert Lahr, American actor (d. 1967)
1899 – Alfred Hitchcock, English-American director and producer (d. 1980)
1921 – Jimmy McCracklin, American blues/R&B singer-songwriter and pianist (d 2012)
1926 – Fidel Castro, Cuban lawyer and politician, 15th President of Cuba (d. 2016)
1929 – Pat Harrington, Jr., American actor (d. 2016)
1930 – Don Ho, American singer and ukulele player (d. 2007)
1933 – Joycelyn Elders, American admiral and physician, 15th Surgeon General of the United States
Former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is 72.
Opera singer Kathleen Battle is 70.
1951 – Dan Fogelberg, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2007)
1952 – Dave Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)
1959 – Danny Bonaduce, American actor and wrestler
1963 – Valerie Plame, American CIA agent and author
1982 – Sarah Huckabee Sanders, American political consultant and press secretary
…and on this day in history…
In 1521, Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez captured Tenochtitlan (teh-natch-teet-LAHN'), present-day Mexico City, from the Aztecs.
In 1792, French revolutionaries imprisoned the royal family.
In 1846, the American flag was raised for the first time in Los Angeles.
1889 – William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."
1918 – Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha May Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
In 1942, Walt Disney's animated feature "Bambi" had its U.S. premiere at Radio City Music Hall in New York, five days after its world premiere in London.
In 1960, the first two-way telephone conversation by satellite took place with the help of Echo 1.
On August 13, 1961, East Germany sealed off the border between Berlin's eastern and western sectors before building a wall that would divide the city for the next 28 years.
1977 – Members of the British National Front (NF) clash with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214 arrests and at least 111 injuries.