Today is Thursday, the 17th of January of 2019. It is the 17th day of the year. There are 348 days remaining until the end of the year. 62 days until spring begins…
and 656 days until Presidential Elections, Tuesday November 3, 2020
(1 year 9 months and 17 days from today)
The sun rises at 7:23 am
and sunset will be at 5:18 pm.
Today we will have 9 hours and 55 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 12:20 pm.
The first low tide was at 1:11 am
and the next low tide will be at 2:39 pm.
The first high tide will be at 7:38 am
and the next high tide at 9:49 pm.
Today is…
Ditch New Years Resolutions Day
Get to Know Your Customers Day
It’s also…
The opening ceremony of Patras Carnival, celebrated until Clean Monday. (Patras, Greece)
The Moon is 82.0% visible; a Waxing Gibbous
Moon Direction:304.25° NW↑
Moon Altitude:-13.60°
Moon Distance: 231838 mi
Next Full Moon, and a Lunar Eclipse: Sunday January 20, 2019 at 9:16 pm
Next New Moon: Monday Feb 4, 20191:03 pm
Next Moonrise: Today at 2:07 pm
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
1706 – Benjamin Franklin, American publisher, inventor, and politician, 6th President of Pennsylvania (d. 1790)
1863 – David Lloyd George, Welsh lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1945)
1863 – Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (d. 1938)
1880 – Mack Sennett, Canadian-American actor, director, and producer (d. 1960)
1899 – Al Capone, American mob boss (d. 1947)
1922 – Luis Echeverría, Mexican academic and politician, 50th President of Mexico
1922 – Nicholas Katzenbach, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 65th United States Attorney General (d. 2012)
1922 – Betty White, American actress, game show panelist, television personality, and animal rights activist
1926 – Newton N. Minow, American lawyer and politician
1927 – Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer (d. 2008)
1931 – James Earl Jones, American actor
1931 – Douglas Wilder, American sergeant and politician, 66th Governor of Virginia
1933 – Shari Lewis, American actress, puppeteer/ventriloquist, and television host (d. 1998)
1939 – Maury Povich, American talk show host and producer
1942 – Muhammad Ali, American boxer and activist (d. 2016)
1949 – Andy Kaufman, American actor and comedian (d. 1984)
1952 – Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese pianist, composer, and producer
1954 – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., American lawyer, radio host, activist, and environmentalist
1955 – Steve Earle, American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, author and actor
1957 – Steve Harvey, American actor, comedian, television personality and game show host
1962 – Jim Carrey, Canadian-American actor and producer
1962 – Sebastian Junger, American journalist and author
1964 – Michelle Obama, American lawyer and activist, 46th First Lady of the United States
1980 – Zooey Deschanel, American singer-songwriter and actress
…and on this day in history…
1773 – Captain James Cook commands the first expedition to sail south of the Antarctic Circle.
1904 – Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
1912 – British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
1929 – Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by E. C. Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
1946 – The UN Security Council holds its first session.
1950 – The Great Brink's Robbery: Eleven thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car company's offices in Boston.
1950 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 79 relating to arms control is adopted.
1961 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military–industrial complex" as well as the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending.
1961 – Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
1969 – Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA.
1977 – Capital punishment in the United States resumes after a ten-year hiatus, as convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by firing squad in Utah.
1981 – President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law eight years and five months after declaring it.
1992 – During a visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
1994 – The 6.7 Mw Northridge earthquake shakes the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 57 people dead and more than 8,700 injured.
1998 – Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky affair on his Drudge Report website.
2007 – The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea's nuclear testing.