Today is Thursday, the 9th of December of 2021,
December 9 is the 343rd day of the year
22 days remain until the end of the year.
12 days until Winter Solstice
The sun rises in San Francisco at 7:13:59 am
and the sun sets at 4:51:00 pm.
We will have 9 hours and 37 minutes of daylight today.
The solar transit will be at 12:02:29 pm.
The first high tide was at 3:36 am at 5.25 feet
The first low tide will be at 8:52 am at 3.02 feet
The next high tide at 2:11 pm at 5.45 feet
and the final low tide at Ocean Beach tonight will be at 9:15 pm at -0.28 feet
The Moon is currently 34.3% visible
It’s a Waxing Crescent moon
We’ll have the First Quarter Moon tomorrow Friday the 10th of December of 2021 at 5:36 pm
Today is…
International Anti-Corruption Day
International Day of Veterinary Medicine
Today is also…
Anna's Day, marks the day to start the preparation process of the lutefisk to be consumed on Christmas Eve, as well as a Swedish name day, celebrating all people named Anna. in Sweden and Finland
Fatherland's Heroes Day in Russia
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Tanganyika from Britain in 1961 in Tanzania
National Heroes Day, formerly V.C. Bird Day in Antigua and Barbuda
On this day in history….
1531 – The Virgin of Guadalupe first appears to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, Mexico City.
1851 – The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal.
1868 – The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
1872 – In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first African-American governor of a U.S. state.
1905 – In France, the law separating church and state is passed.
1968 – Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).
1979 – The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first of only two diseases that have been driven to extinction (rinderpest in 2011 being the other).
2017 – The Marriage Amendment Bill receives royal assent and comes into effect, making Australia the 26th country to legalize same-sex marriage.
…and if today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your special day with….
1883 – Joseph Pilates, German-American fitness expert, developed Pilates (d. 1967)
1895 – Dolores Ibárruri, “La Pasionara” Spanish activist, journalist and politician (d. 1989)
1897 – Hermione Gingold, English actress and singer (d. 1987)
1898 – Emmett Kelly, American clown and actor (d. 1979)
1899 – Jean de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator (d. 1937)
1902 – Margaret Hamilton, American schoolteacher, actress and voice artist (d. 1985)
1905 – Dalton Trumbo, American author, screenwriter, and blacklistee (d. 1976)
1906 – Grace Hopper, American admiral and computer scientist, designed COBOL (d. 1992)
1909 – Douglas Fairbanks Jr., American captain, actor, and producer (d. 2000)
1911 – Broderick Crawford, American actor (d. 1986)
1912 – Tip O'Neill, American lawyer and politician, 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1994)
1915 – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-Austrian soprano and actress (d. 2006)
1916 – Kirk Douglas, American actor, singer, and producer (d. 2020)
1922 – Redd Foxx, American actor (d. 1991)
1928 – Dick Van Patten, American actor (d. 2015)
1929 – John Cassavetes, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1989)
1929 – Bob Hawke, Australian union leader and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2019)
1930 – Buck Henry, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2020)
1932 – Donald Byrd, American trumpet player and academic (d. 2013)
1933 – Ashleigh Brilliant, English-American author and illustrator
1933 – Morton Downey Jr., American actor and talk show host (d. 2001)
1934 – Judi Dench, English actress
1934 – Junior Wells, American blues singer-songwriter and harmonica player (d. 1998)
1940 – Clancy Eccles, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2005)
1941 – Beau Bridges, American actor, director, and producer
1941 – Dan Hicks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2016)
1942 – Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1997)
1943 – Joanna Trollope, English author, playwright, and director
1943 – Kenny Vance, American singer-songwriter and music producer
1944 – Neil Innes, English singer-songwriter (d. 2019)
1946 – Sonia Gandhi, Italian-Indian politician
1947 – Tom Daschle, American soldier, academic, and politician
1950 – Joan Armatrading, Kittian-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1952 – Michael Dorn, American actor and voice artist
1953 – John Malkovich, American actor and producer
1957 – Donny Osmond, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
1967 – Joshua Bell, American violinist and conductor
1969 – Jakob Dylan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist