Today Monday, the 27th of August of 2018, is the 239th day of the year.
There are 126 days remaining until the end of the year.
71 days until mid-term elections Tuesday November 6, 2018...
(2 months and 10 days from today)
799 days until presidential elections Tuesday November 3, 2020
(2 years 2 months and 7 days from today)
The sun rises today at 6:36 am
and sunset will be at 7:45 pm.
Today we will have 13 hours and 9 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 1:10 pm.
The first high tide was at 12:17am
and the next high tide will be at 1:30 pm.
The first low tide will be at 6:39 am
and the next low tide at 6:46 pm.
A medium pollen count of 7 today
rising to a high-medium pollen count 8.5 by the end of the week
The Moon is currently 99.0% visible; now a Waning Gibbous
We had a proper Full moon last night.
Some Native American tribes knew that the sturgeon of the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain were most readily caught during this full Moon. Others called it the Green Corn Moon.
Moon Direction:↑ 231.89° SW
Moon Altitude:26.42°
Moon Distance:248642 mi
Next New Moon: Sunday September 9, 2018 (on Rosh Hashana) at 11:01 am
Next Full Moon:Monday September 24, 2018 at 7:52 pm
Next Moonset: Today at 7:36 am
Today is…
Today is also…
Independence Day in the Republic of Moldova, celebrating the independence of Moldova from the USSR in 1991.
Lyndon Baines Johnson Day in the state of Texas
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
865 – Rhazes, Persian polymath (d. 925)
1770 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher and academic (d. 1831)
1871 – Theodore Dreiser, American novelist and journalist (d. 1945)
1890 – Man Ray, American-French photographer and painter (d. 1976)
1896 – Léon Theremin, Russian physicist and engineer, invented the Theremin (d. 1993)
1908 – Lyndon B. Johnson, American commander and politician, 36th President of the United States (d. 1973)
1909 – Lester Young, American saxophonist and clarinet player (d. 1959)
1916 – Martha Raye, American actress and comedian (d. 1994)
1917 – Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1986)
1919 – Pee Wee Butts, American baseball player and coach (d. 1972)
1925 – Carter Stanley, American bluegrass singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1966)
1926 – Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist and academic (d. 2002)
1928 – Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African politician, Chief Minister of KwaZulu
1928 – Joan Kroc, American philanthropist (d. 2003)
1931 – Sri Chinmoy, Indian-American guru and poet (d. 2007)
1937 – Alice Coltrane, American pianist and composer (d. 2007)
1939 – William Least Heat-Moon, American travel writer and historian
1941 – Cesária Évora, Cape Verdean singer (d. 2011)
1943 – Bob Kerrey, American lieutenant and politician, 35th Governor of Nebraska
1943 – Tuesday Weld, American model and actress
1947 – Barbara Bach, American model and actress
1952 – Paul Reubens, American actor and comedian
…and on this day in history…
410 – The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days.
1828 – Brazil and Argentina recognize the sovereignty of Uruguay in the Treaty of Montevideo
1859 – Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.
1883 – Eruption of Krakatoa: Four enormous explosions destroy the island of Krakatoa and cause years of climate change.
1896 – Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
1927 – Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"
2003 – Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.