Today is Thursday, the 25th of November, 2021
November 25 is the 329th day of the year
36 days remain until the end of the year.
26 days until winter begins
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 7:01:08 am
and sunset will be at 4:52:30 pm.
Today we will have 9 hours and 51 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 11:56:49 am.
The first high tide was at 3:55 am at 4.60 feet
The first low tide will be at 8:33 am at 3.62 feet
The Moon is currently 69 percent visible
It’s a Waning Gibbous
Last Quarter Moon in 2 days on Saturday the 27th of November of 2021 at 4:28 am
Today is…
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
Today is also…
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Suriname from the Netherlands in 1975.
National Day in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Vajiravudh Memorial Day in Thailand
On this day in history…
1487 – Elizabeth of York is crowned Queen of England
1874 – The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.
1915 – Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
1947 – Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
1952 – Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. It will become the longest continuously-running play in history.
1963 – President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery
1984 – Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
1986 – Iran–Contra affair: U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
1992 – The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with effect from January 1, 1993.
1999 – A five-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.
…and if today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this special day with…
1835 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1919)
1844 – Karl Benz, German engineer and businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz (d. 1929)
1895 – Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist and composer (d. 1991)
1895 – Anastas Mikoyan, Soviet politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (d. 1978)
1900 – Helen Gahagan Douglas, American actress and politician (d. 1980)
1909 – P. D. Eastman, American author and illustrator (d. 1986)
1914 – Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player and coach (d. 1999)
1915 – Augusto Pinochet, Chilean general and politician, 30th President of Chile (d. 2006)
1920 – Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican-American actor, singer, and director (d. 2009)
1924 – Paul Desmond, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1977)
1926 – Poul Anderson, American author (d. 2001)
1931 – Nat Adderley, American cornet and trumpet player (d. 2000)
1933 – Kathryn Crosby, American actress and singer
1940 – Percy Sledge, American singer (d. 2015)
1947 – John Larroquette, American actor
1951 – Bill Morrissey, American singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
1960 – Amy Grant, American singer-songwriter
1960 – John F. Kennedy Jr., American lawyer, journalist, and publisher (d. 1999)