Today is Wednesday, the 16th of January of 2019 is the 16th day of the year. There are 349 days remaining until the end of the year. 63 days until spring begins...
657 days until presidential elections on Tuesday November 3, 2020...
(1 year 9 months and 18 days from today)
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 7:23 am
and sunset will be at 5:17 pm.
Today we will have 9 hours and 54 minutes of sun.
Solar noon will be at 12:20 pm.
The first low tide was at 12:11am
and the next low tide will be at 1:51 pm.
The first high tide will be at 6:51 am
and the next high tide at 8:49 pm.
Moon: 73.1%
Waxing Gibbous
Moon Direction:321.71° NW↑
Moon Altitude:-29.99°
Moon Distance: 235647 mi
Next Full Moon: Jan 20, 20199:16 pm
Next New Moon: Feb 4, 20191:03 pm
Next Moonrise: Today1:24 pm
There is play by Ayn Rand called The Night of January 16th.
Today is…
International Hot and Spicy Food Day
National Without a Scalpel Day
It’s also…
Teacher's Day in both Myanmar and Thailand
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this special day with…
1874 – Robert W. Service, English-Canadian poet and author (d. 1958)
1908 – Ethel Merman, American actress and singer (d. 1984)
1910 – Dizzy Dean, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1974)
1921 – Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (d. 2004)
1932 – Dian Fossey, American zoologist and anthropologist (d. 1985)
1933 – Susan Sontag, American novelist, essayist, and critic (d. 2004)
1943 – Gavin Bryars, English bassist and composer
1943 – Ronnie Milsap, American singer and pianist
1948 – Ruth Reichl, American journalist and critic
1959 – Sade, Nigerian-English singer-songwriter and producer
1974 – Kate Moss, English model and fashion designer
1979 – Aaliyah, American singer and actress (d. 2001)
1980 – Lin-Manuel Miranda, American actor, playwright, and composer
…and on this day in history…
1605 – The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain.
1847 – John C. Frémont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
1909 – Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
1919 – The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.
1964 – Hello, Dolly! opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances.
2006 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.