Today is Wednesday, the 21st of December of 2022,
December 21 is the 355th day of the year
10 days remain until the end of the year.
Winter solstice 2022 in Northern Hemisphere will be at 1:47 PM on Today, Wednesday, December 21
The sun rises this morning in San Francisco at 7:21:42 am
and the sun will set this afternoon at 4:54:58 pm.
We will have 9 hours and 33 minutes of daylight
Solar noon today will be at 12:08:20 pm.
Water temperature in San Francisco Bay today is 50.7°F.
The first low tide will be at 1:58 am at 2.75 feet
The first high tide will be at 8:06 am at 6.76 feet
The next low tide at 3:19 pm at -1.05 feet
and the final high tide at Ocean Beach tonight will be at 10:21 pm at 4.72 feet
The Moon is currently 5.1% visible
It’s a Waning Crescent moon
We’ll have the New Moon in 2 days 23th of December of 2022 at 2:17 am
Today is…
Winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and the Summer solstice in the Southern Hemisphere
International Dalek Remembrance Day
National French Fried Shrimp Day
National Homeless Persons' Memorial Day
National Look at the Bright Side Day
Today is also…
Armed Forces Day in Philippines
Blue Christmas in some modern American liberal Protestant groups
Dongzhi Festival in Asia
Sang-ha-mit-ta Day in Thera-vada Buddhism
Ziemassvētki in ancient Latvia
Forefathers' Day in Plymouth, Massachusetts
São Tomé Day in São Tomé and Príncipe
and The first day of Pancha Gana-pati, celebrated until December 25 in the Saiva Sid-dhanta Church
On this day in history….
1844 – The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers commences business at its cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement.
1879 – World premiere of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1913 – Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.
1919 – American anarchist Emma Goldman is deported to Russia.
1937 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.
1965 – International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination is adopted.
1995 – The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
2020 – A great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn occurs, with the two planets separated in the sky by 0.1 degrees. This is the closest conjunction between the two planets since 1623
…and if today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this special day with…
1615 – Benedict Arnold, Rhode Island colonial governor (d. 1678)
1795 – Jack Russell, English priest, hunter, and dog breeder (d. 1883)
1804 – Benjamin Disraeli, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1881)
1892 – Rebecca West, English journalist and author (d. 1983)
1911 – Josh Gibson, American baseball player (d. 1947)
1915 – Werner von Trapp, Austrian-American singer (d. 2007)
1917 – Heinrich Böll, German novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
1918 – Donald Regan, American colonel and politician, 11th White House Chief of Staff (d. 2003)
1918 – Kurt Waldheim, Austrian colonel and politician; 9th President of Austria (d. 2007)
1922 – Paul Winchell, American actor, voice artist, and ventriloquist (d. 2005)
1935 – Phil Donahue, American talk show host and producer
1937 – Jane Fonda, American actress and activist
1940 – Frank Zappa, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1993)
1942 – Hu Jintao, Chinese engineer and politician, 5th Paramount leader of China
1944 – Michael Tilson Thomas, American pianist, composer, and conductor
1947 – Paco de Lucía, Spanish guitarist, songwriter, and producer (d. 2014)
1948 – Barry Gordon, American actor and voice artist; longest-serving president of the Screen Actors Guild (1988–95)
1948 – Samuel L. Jackson, American actor and producer
1949 – Thomas Sankara, Burkinabé captain and politician, 5th President of Burkina Faso (d. 1987)
1953 – András Schiff, Hungarian-English pianist and conductor
1953 – Betty Wright, American singer-songwriter (d. 2020)
