Today is Garlic Lovers Day...
Today is Tuesday, the 6th of October of 2020
October 6 is the 280th day of the year
86 days remain until the end of the year.
28 days until Election Day
Tuesday November 3, 2020
The sun rises at 7:10 am
and sunset will be at 6:44 pm.
Today we will have 11 hours and 34 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 12:57 pm.
The first high tide was at 3:36 am
and the next high tide will be at 2:38 pm.
The first low tide will be at 8:29 am
and the next low tide at 9:11 pm.
The Moon is 82.1% visible; a Waning Gibbous
Moon Direction: | 206.57° SSW↑ |
Moon Altitude: | 69.53° |
Moon Distance: | 250,510 mi |
Last Quarter Moon in 4 days on Friday the 9th of October of 2020 at 5:39 pm Next New Moon: | Oct 16, 2020, 12:31 pm |
Next Full Moon: | Oct 31, 2020, 7:49 am |
Next Moonset: | Today, 11:34 am |
Today is…
National Plus Size Appreciation Day
Today is also…
Day of Commemoration and National Mourning in Turkmenistan
Dukla Pass Victims Day in Slovakia
Memorial Day for the Martyrs of Arad in Hungary
Yom Kippur War commemorations:
Tishreen Liberation Day in Syria
on this day in history...
1600 – Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance, beginning the Baroque period.
1683 – Immigrant families found Germantown, Pennsylvania in the first major immigration of German people to America.
1976 – Premier Hua Guofeng arrests the Gang of Four, ending the Cultural Revolution in China.
1995 – The first planet orbiting another sun, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered.
2007 – Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth.
2010 – Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, is founded.
…and if today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
1729 – Sarah Crosby, English preacher, the first female Methodist preacher (d. 1804)
1744 – James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded McGill University (d. 1813)
1846 – George Westinghouse, American engineer and businessman, founded the Westinghouse Air Brake Company (d. 1914)
1866 – Reginald Fessenden, Canadian engineer and academic, invented radiotelephony (d. 1932)
1887 – Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and painter, designed the Philips Pavilion and Saint-Pierre, Firminy (d. 1965)
1908 – Carole Lombard, American actress (d. 1942)
1914 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer and explorer (d. 2002)
1917 – Fannie Lou Hamer, American activist and philanthropist (d. 1977)
1921 – Joseph Lowery, American minister and activist (d. 2020)
1925 – Shana Alexander, American journalist and author (d. 2005)
1930 – Hafez al-Assad, Syrian general and politician, 20th President of Syria (d. 2000)
1934 – Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist and author (d. 2015)
1942 – Britt Ekland, Swedish actress and singer
1948 – Gerry Adams, Irish republican politician
1950 – David Brin, American physicist and author
1954 – David Hidalgo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1982 – William Butler, American musician and composer
2004 – Bronny James, American basketball player, son of LeBron James