Today is Thursday, the 23th of August of 2018. It is the 235th day of the year.
There are 130 days remaining until the end of the year. 30 days until autumn begins
75 days until mid-term elections Tuesday November 6, 2018 ...
(2 months and 14 days from today)
803 days until presidential elections Tuesday November 3, 2020
(2 years 2 months and 11 days from today)
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:33 am
and sunset will be at 7:50 pm.
We will have 13 hours and 17 minutes of daylight today.
The first low tide was at 4:33 am
and the next low tide at 4:26 pm.
The first high tide will be at 11:37 am
and the next high tide at 10:22 pm.
A Medium Pollen count of 5.5 today rising to a Medium High count of 8 by Monday
The Moon is currently 92.1% visible; a Waxing Gibbous
Moon Direction: ↑ 254.05° WSW
Moon Altitude: -12.93°
Moon Distance: 252118 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 6:29 pm
Today is…
It’s also…
Day of the National Flag in Ukraine
European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism or Black Ribbon Day
Liberation from Fascist Occupation Day in Romania
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
National Day for Physicians in Iran
Umhlanga Day in Swaziland, also known as the Kingdom of Eswatini
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
1900 – Malvina Reynolds, American singer-songwriter and activist (d. 1978)
1905 – Ernie Bushmiller, American cartoonist (d. 1982)
1912 – Gene Kelly, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1996)
1913 – Bob Crosby, American swing singer and bandleader (d. 1993)
1917 – Tex Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1985)
1931 – Barbara Eden, American actress and singer
1932 – Houari Boumediene, Algerian colonel and politician, 2nd President of Algeria (d. 1978)
1933 – Pete Wilson, American commander and politician, 36th Governor of California
1940 – Galen Rowell, American mountaineer and photographer (d. 2002)
1946 – Keith Moon, English drummer, songwriter, and producer (d. 1978)
1947 – Linda Thompson, English folk-rock singer-songwriter
1949 – Shelley Long, American actress
1949 – Rick Springfield, Australian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1951 – Queen Noor of Jordan
1970 – River Phoenix, American actor (d. 1993)
1978 – Kobe Bryant, American basketball player and businessman
…and on this day in history…
AD 79 – Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
1541 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
1784 – Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.
1831 – Nat Turner's slave rebellion is suppressed.
1839 – The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China. The ensuing three-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War.
1873 – Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.
1898 – The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
1904 – The automobile tire chain is patented.
1927 – Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
1942 – World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
1943 – World War II: Kharkiv is liberated after the Battle of Kursk.
1944 – World War II: Marseille is liberated by the Allies.
1944 – World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
1970 – Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
1973 – A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".
1975 – The Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan has opened. It is 30 miles south of Detroit, Michigan
1989 – Singing Revolution: Two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius–Tallinn road, holding hands.
1990 – Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1990 – West and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3.
1991 – The World Wide Web is opened to the public.
1994 – Eugene Bullard, the only African American pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.