Today is Friday, the 23rd of September of 2022,
September 23 is the 266th day of the year
99 days remain until the end of the year.
89 days until winter begins
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:58:46 am
and sunset will be at 7:03:52 pm.
We will have 12 hours and 5 minutes of daylight
Solar noon will be at 1:01:19 pm.
The first low tide will be at 4:00 am at 0.23 feet
The first high tide will be at 10:39 am at 5.15 feet
The next low tide at 4:10 pm at 2.07 feet
and the final high tide at Ocean Beach tonight will be at 10:42 pm 5.71 feet
Water temperature in the San Francisco Bay is 65.7 degrees
The Moon is currently 6.1% visible
It’s a Waning Crescent
We’ll have a New Moon in 2 days on Sunday the 25th of September of 2022 at 2:54 pm
Today is…
National Great American Pot Pie Day
Today is also…
1868 – Grito de Lares ("Lares Revolt") occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
Holocaust Memorial Day (Lithuania)
Kyrgyz Language Day (Kyrgyzstan)
International Day of Sign Languages
On this day in history…
1641 – The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure of over 100,000 pounds of gold (worth over £1 billion today), is lost at sea off Land's End.
1642 – The first commencement exercises occur at Harvard College.
1845 – The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York
1889 – Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
1911 – Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department.
1983 – Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 117 people on board.
2002 – The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.
…and if today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You get to share birthday cake today with…
1215 – Kublai Khan, Mongolian emperor (d. 1294)
1838 – Victoria Woodhull, American journalist and activist (d. 1927)
1865 – Emma Orczy, Hungarian-English author and playwright (d. 1947)
1867 – John Lomax, American teacher, musicologist, and folklorist (d. 1948)
1889 – Walter Lippmann, American journalist and publisher, co-founded The New Republic (d. 1974)
1897 – Walter Pidgeon, Canadian-American actor and singer (d. 1984)
1916 – Aldo Moro, Italian academic and politician, 39th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1978)
1920 – Mickey Rooney, American actor, singer, director, and producer (d. 2014)
1926 – André Cassagnes, French toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch (d. 2013)
1926 – John Coltrane, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1967)
1930 – Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 2004)
1935 – Les McCann, American soul-jazz singer and pianist
1939 – Roy Buchanan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1988)
1941 – George Jackson, American activist and author, co-founded the Black Guerrilla Family (d. 1971)
1943 – Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer-songwriter
1944 – Eric Bogle, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1947 – Mary Kay Place, American actress
1949 – Bruce Springsteen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1970 – Ani DiFranco, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
