Today is Tuesday, the 14th of August of 2018, the 226th day of the year.
There are 139 days remaining until the end of the year; 39 days until autumn begins
84 days until mid-term elections Tuesday November 6, 2018...
(2 months and 23 days from today)
812 days until presidential elections Tuesday November 3, 2020
(2 years 2 months and 20 days from today)
The sun rises at 6:25 am
and sunset will be at 8:02 pm.
We will have 13 hours and 37 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 1:13 pm.
The first high tide was at 1:57 am
and the next high tide at 3:06 pm.
The first low tide will be at 8:12 am
and the next low tide at 8:43 pm.
A Low-to-medium pollen count today at 3.4, rising to a medium level of 5.9 by Saturday
The Moon is currently 13.4% visible; a Waxing Crescent
Moon Direction: ↑ 27.14° NNE
Moon Altitude: -47.03°
Moon Distance: 229974 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 10:07 am
Today is…
National Financial Awareness Day
National Navajo Code Talkers Day
It’s also…
Anniversary Day in Tristan da Cunha
Commemoration of Wadi al-Dahab in Morocco
Engineer's Day in the Dominican Republic
Day of the Defenders of the Fatherland in Abkhazia (state is not fully recognized)
Independence Day, celebrates the day when Pakistan was declared a sovereign nation following the end of the British Raj in 1947.
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
1851 – Doc Holliday, American dentist and gambler (d. 1887)
1912 – Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (d. 1985)
1925 – Russell Baker, American critic and essayist
1926 – Buddy Greco, American singer and pianist (d. 2017)
1928 – Lina Wertmüller, Italian director and screenwriter
1929 – Gene Scott, American pastor and broadcaster (d. 2005)
1941 – David Crosby, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1943 – Ben Sidran, American jazz and rock keyboardist, producer, label owner, and music writer
1945 – Steve Martin, American actor, comedian, musician, producer, and screenwriter
1945 – Wim Wenders, German director, producer, and screenwriter
1946 – Susan Saint James, American actress
1947 – Maddy Prior, English folk singer
1947 – Danielle Steel, American author
1948 – Terry Adams, American pianist and composer
1950 – Gary Larson, American cartoonist
1952 – John McCutcheon, American folksinger
1959 – Magic Johnson, American basketball player and coach
1965 – Terry Richardson, American photographer and director
1966 – Halle Berry, American model, actress, and producer, Miss World United States 1986
1983 – Mila Kunis, Ukrainian-born American actress
1987 – Tim Tebow, American football and baseball player, television personality and sportscaster
…and on this day in history…
29 BC – Octavian holds the second of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
1885 – Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.
1893 – France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
1935 – Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
1945 – Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan Standard Time).
1967 – UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
1975 – The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens in London.
1980 – Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
1994 – Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
2003 – A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
2015 – The US Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of being closed when Cuba–United States relations were broken off.