Today is Thursday, the 1st of December of 2022,
December 1 is the 335th day of the year
30 days remain until the end of the year.
20 days until winter begins
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 7:06:46 am
and the sun will set this afternoon at 4:51:03 pm.
Today we will have 9 hours and 44 minutes of daylight
The solar transit will be at 11:58:54 am
Water temperature in San Francisco today is 54°F
The first high tide was at 5:44 am at 5.51 feet
The first low tide of the day will be at 11:53 am at 2.07 feet
The next high tide at 5:14 pm at 4.53 feet
and the final low tide at Ocean Beach tonight will be at 11:35 pm at 0.58 feet
The Moon is 60.7% visible
We’ll have a Full Moon in one week on Wednesday the 7th of December of 2022 at 8:08 pm
Today is…
Bifocals at the Monitor Liberation Day
Today is also…
Battle of the Sinop Day in Russia
Dam-rong Raja-nub-hab Day in Thailand
First President Day in Kazakhstan
Freedom and Democracy Day in Chad
Great Union Day, celebrates the Union of Transylvania with Romania in 1918
Military Abolition Day in Costa Rica
Republic Day in The Central African Republic
Restoration of Independence Day in Portugal
Self-governance Day or Full-veldis-dagurinn in Iceland
On this day in history….
1824 – United States presidential election: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1834 – Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
1862 – In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
1865 – Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
1878 – President Rutherford B. Hayes gets the first telephone installed in the White House.
1952 – The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.
1955 – American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.
1959 – Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.
1991 – Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
2000 – Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.
2019 – Arsenal Women 11–1 Bristol City Women breaks the record for most goals scored in a FA Women's Super League match, with Vivianne Miedema involved in ten of the eleven Arsenal goals.
…and if today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You get to share birthday cake with…
1761 – Marie Tussaud, French-English sculptor, founded Madame Tussauds Wax Museum (d. 1850)
1792 – Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and geometer (d. 1856)
1886 – Rex Stout, American detective novelist (d. 1975)
1886 – Zhu De, Chinese general and politician, 1st Vice Chairman of the People's Republic of China (d. 1976)
1896 – Georgy Zhukov, Russian general and politician, 2nd Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (d. 1974)
1913 – Mary Martin, American actress and singer (d. 1990)
1923 – Dick Shawn, American actor (d. 1987)
1923 – Stansfield Turner, American admiral and academic, 12th Director of Central Intelligence (d. 2018)
1933 – Lou Rawls, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 2006)
1934 – Billy Paul, American soul singer (d. 2016)
1939 – Lee Trevino, American golfer and sportscaster
1940 – Richard Pryor, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2005)
1945 – Bette Midler, American singer-songwriter, actress and producer
1946 – Jonathan Katz, American comedian and actor
1946 – Gilbert O'Sullivan, Irish singer-songwriter and pianist
1949 – Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist (d. 1993)
1951 – Jaco Pastorius, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (d. 1987)
1958 – Candace Bushnell, American journalist and author
1970 – Sarah Silverman, American comedian, actress, and singer
1976 – Laura Ling, American journalist and author
1988 – Zoë Kravitz, American actress, singer, and model
