It's Wednesday, August 28, 2019...
It is the 240th day of the year.
125 days remain until the end of the year.
188 days until Tuesday March 3, 2020
(6 months and 4 days from today)
433 days until Tuesday November 3, 2020
(1 year 2 months and 6 days from today)
The sun rises at 6:37 am
and sunset will be at 7:43 pm.
Today we will have 13 hours and 6 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 1:10 pm.
The first low tide was at 4:24 am
and the next low tide will be at 4:16 pm.
The first high tide will be at 11:32 am
and the final high tide at 10:28 pm.
The Moon is 5.8% visible; a Waning Crescent
Moon Direction:66.90° ENE↑
Moon Altitude:2.62°
Moon Distance:224730 mi
Next New Moon: Friday August 30, 2019 at 3:37 am
Next Full Moon: Friday September 13, 2019 at 9:32 pm
Next Moonset: Today 6:58 pm
Today is…
Crackers Over The Keyboard Day
International Read Comics in Public Day
Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day
Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day
Willing-To-Lend-A-Hand Wednesday
Today is also…
National Grandparents Day in Mexico
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this special day with…
1749 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat (d. 1832)
1774 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, American nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of Charity Federation in the Vincentian-Setonian Tradition (d. 1821)
1899 – Charles Boyer, French-American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1978)
1903 – Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American psychologist and author (d. 1990)
1908 – Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and author (d. 1996)
1913 – Robertson Davies, Canadian journalist, author, and playwright (d. 1995)
1916 – Jack Vance, American author (d. 2013)
1917 – Jack Kirby, American author and illustrator (d. 1994)
1921 – Nancy Kulp, American actress and soldier (d. 1991)
1928 – Vilayat Khan, Indian sitar player and composer (d. 2004)
1930 – Ben Gazzara, American actor (d. 2012)
1965 – Shania Twain, Canadian singer-songwriter
1969 – Jack Black, American actor and comedian
1982 – LeAnn Rimes, American singer-songwriter and actress
2003 – (kwə-VAN-jə-nay) Quvenzhané Wallis, American actress
…and on this day in history…
1830 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in U.S. railroads.
1845 – The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
1917 – Ten Suffragists are arrested while picketing the White House.
1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
1957 – U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech
1968 – The police rioted during the Democratic National Convention, beating up anti-war protesters, peaceful demonstrators, innocent bystanders, and members of the press.