It's Tuesday, November 5, 2019....
It is the 309th day of the year.
56 days remain until the end of the year.
119 days until primaries
Tuesday March 3, 2020
(3 months and 27 days from today)
and 364 days until presidential elections
Tuesday November 3, 2020
(11 months and 29 days from today)
The sun rises at 6:40 am
and sunset will be at 5:06 pm.
Today we will have 10 hours and 26 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 11:53 am.
The first high tide will be at 7:20 am
and the next high tide at 6:08 pm.
The only low tide of the day will be at 12:52 pm.
The Moon is 60.6% visible; a Waxing Gibbous
Moon Direction:295.99° WNW↑
Moon Altitude:-53.96°
Moon Distance: 250455 mi
Next Full Moon: Tuesday November 12, 2019 at 5:34 am
Next New Moon: Tuesday November 26, 2019 at 7:05 am
Next Moonrise: Today 2:11 pm
Today is…
National Doughnut Appreciation Day
National Love Your Red Hair Day
Today is also…
Guy Fawkes Night in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
West Country Carnival in the English West Country
Cinco de noviembre in Negros, Philippines
Kanakadasa Jayanthi in Karnataka, India
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this special day with…
1855 – Eugene V. Debs, American union leader and politician (d. 1926)
1895 – Walter Gieseking, French-German pianist and composer (d. 1956)
1900 – Natalie Schafer, American actress (d. 1991)
1911 – Roy Rogers, American singer, guitarist, and actor (d. 1998)
1913 – Vivien Leigh, Indian-British actress (d. 1967)
1931 – Ike Turner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (d. 2007)
1934 – Jeb Stuart Magruder, American minister and civil servant (d. 2014)
1940 – Elke Sommer, German actress
1941 – Art Garfunkel, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1943 – Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor (d. 2017)
1946 – Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1973)
1949 – Armin Shimerman, American actor
1952 – Vandana Shiva, Indian philosopher and author
1952 – Bill Walton, American basketball player and sportscaster
1953 – Joyce Maynard, American journalist, author, and academic
1960 – Tilda Swinton, English actress
1963 – Tatum O'Neal, American actress and author
…and on this day in history…
1605 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested.
1872 – Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
1895 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
1898 – Negrese nationalists revolt against Spanish rule and establish the short-lived Republic of Negros.
1916 – The Everett massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police.
1917 – October Revolution: Lenin calls for the October Revolution.
1940 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is the first and only President of the United States to be elected to a third term.
1955 – After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.