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Almanac - Wednesday 1/2/19

Cuban-ish Sandwich, by flickr user cwdiaz

Today, Wednesday January 2, is the second day of the year. There are 363 days remaining until the end of the year. 77 days until spring begins. 671 days until presidential elections Tuesday November 3, 2020...

(1 year 10 months and 1 day from today)

The sun will at 7:25 am and

Sunset will be at 5:04 pm.

Today we will have 9 hours and 39 minutes of daylight.

Solar noon will be at 12:14 pm.

The first low tide was at 2:02 am

and the next low tide will be at 3:24 pm.

The first high tide will be at 8:30 am 

and the next high tide at 10:22 pm.

The Moon is 11.7% visible; a Waning Crescent

Moon Direction: 116.72° ESE↑

Moon Altitude: 5.91°

Moon Distance: 244097 mi

Next New Moon: Saturday January 5, 2019 at 5:28 pm

Next Full Moon: Sunday January 20, 2019 at 9:16 pm

Next Moonset: Today at 2:47 pm

Today is…

55 MPH Speed Limit Day

Happy Mew Year for Cats Day

National Buffet Day

National Cream Puff Day

National Motivation and Inspiration Day

National Personal Trainer Awareness Day

National Run it Up the Flagpole and See if Anybody Salutes It Day

National Science Fiction Day

Swiss Cheese Day

World Introvert Day

Today is also…

Ancestry Day in Haiti

Berchtold's Day in SwitzerlandLiechtenstein and the Alsace

Carnival Day in Saint Kitts and Nevis

Nyinlong in Bhutan

The first day of Blacks and Whites' Carnival, celebrated until January 7. in southern Colombia

The first day of the Carnival of Riosucio, celebrated until January 8 every 2 years.

The ninth of the Twelve Days of Christmas

“On the ninth day of Christmas
My True Love Gave To Me
Nine ladies dancing…”

The second day of New Year, a holiday in KazakhstanMacedoniaMauritiusMontenegroNew ZealandRomaniaRussiaSloveniaSwitzerlandUkraine

New Year Holiday in Scotland

Kaapse Klopse in Cape TownSouth Africa

Victory of Armed Forces Day in Cuba

If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You!  You share this special day with…

869 – Yōzei, Japanese emperor (d. 949)

1920 – Isaac Asimov, Russian-American chemist, author, and academic (d. 1992)

1923 – Rachel Waterhouse, English historian and author

1928 – Dan Rostenkowski, American Congressman (d. 2010)

1936 – Roger Miller, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (d. 1992)

1940 – Jim Bakker, American televangelist

1956 – Lynda Barry, American cartoonist and author

1967 – Tia Carrere, American actress

1968 – Cuba Gooding, Jr., American actor and producer

1986 – Trombone Shorty, American trumpet player and composer

…and on this day in history…

AD 69 – The Roman legions in Germania Superior refuse to swear loyalty to Galba. They rebel and proclaim Vitellius as emperor.

1788 – Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution.

1860 – The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France.

1920 – The second Palmer Raid takes place with another 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists arrested and held without trial. These raids take place in several U.S. cities..

1942 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) obtains the conviction of 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history—the Duquesne Spy Ring.

1967 – Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future President of the United States, is sworn in as Governor of California.

1974 – United States President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.

1991 – Sharon Pratt Kelly becomes the first African American woman mayor of a major city and first woman Mayor of the District of Columbia.