Today is Friday, the 4th of November of 2022, November 4 is the 308th day of the year
57 days remain until the end of the year.
47 days until winter begins
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 7:38:44 am
and sunset will be at 6:07:07 pm.
We will have 10 hours and 28 minutes of daylight
Solar transit will be at 12:52:55 pm.
Daylight-saving time (DST) ends this Sunday, with clocks moving back one hour to standard time at 2:00 am local time on November 6th, 2022
Water temperature in San Francisco Bay is 58.6°F today
The first low tide was early this morning at 2:06 am at 0.29 feet
The first high tide will be at 8:49 am at 5.76 feet
The next low tide at 2:58 pm at 1.23 feet
and the final high tide at Ocean Beach tonight will be at 8:47 pm at 5.04 feet
The Moon is currently 83.5% visible
It’s a Waxing Gibbous moon
We will have a Full Moon in 4 days on Tuesday the 8th of November of 2022 at 4:02 am
at the same time We will also have a Total Lunar Eclipse visible on the west coast
The November Moon is called The Full Beaver Moon
This was the time when beavers finished preparations for winter and retreated into their lodges.
The November Moon is also called the…
Deer Rutting Moon
Digging/Scratching Moon
Freezing Moon
Frost Moon
Whitefish Moon
Today is…
National Medical Science Liaison Awareness and Appreciation Day
National Waiting for the Barbarians Day
Today is also…
Community Service Day in Dominica
National Unity and Armed Forces Day or Giorno dell'Unità Nazionale e Festa delle Forze Armate in Italy
1429 – Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War: Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
1501 – Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII's first wife) meets Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII's older brother – they would later marry.
1677 – The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange; they later jointly reign as William and Mary.
1737 – The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated in Naples, Italy.
1780 – The Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II against Spanish rule in the Viceroyalty of Peru begins.
1783 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, a Scottish physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.
1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
1924 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States.
1952 – The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA.
1960 – At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.
1970 – Salvador Allende takes office as President of Chile, the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections.
1973 – The Netherlands experiences the first car-free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are used only by cyclists and roller skaters.
1979 – Iran hostage crisis: A group of Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages.
1980 – Ronald Reagan is elected as the 40th President of the United States, defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter.
1995 – Israel-Palestinian conflict: Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Israeli.
2008 – Barack Obama becomes the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected as President of the United States.
…and if today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You get to share birthday cake with….
1879 – Will Rogers, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1935)
1911 – Dixie Lee, American actress and singer (d. 1952)
1913 – Gig Young, American actor (d. 1978)
1916 – Walter Cronkite, American journalist, voice actor, and producer (d. 2009)
1918 – Art Carney, American actor (d. 2003)
1932 – Tommy Makem, Irish singer-songwriter (d. 2007)
1937 – Loretta Swit, American actress and singer
1940 – Sally Baldwin, Scottish social sciences professor (d. 2003)
1940 – Delbert McClinton, American singer-songwriter
1946 – Laura Bush, American educator and librarian, 45th First Lady of the United States
1946 – Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (d. 1989)
1958 – Anne Sweeney, American businesswoman
1960 – Kathy Griffin, American comedian and actress
1969 – Sean Combs, American rapper, producer, and actor
1969 – Matthew McConaughey, American actor and producer
