Today is Monday, the 26th of December of 2022,
December 26 is the 360th day of the year
five days remain until the end of the year
and 83 days until spring begins
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 7:23:49 am
and the sun will set this afternoon at 4:57:58 pm.
Today we will have 9 hours and 34 minutes of daylight
(that’s one more minute of daylight)
Solar noon will be at 12:10:53 pm
Water temperature in San Francisco Bay today is 50.5°F
The first high tide was at 1:39 am at 5.14 feet
The first low tide will be at 6:24 am at 2.98 feet
The next high tide will be at 12:12 pm at 6.49 feet
and the final low tide at Ocean Beach tonight will be at 7:19 pm at -1.22 feet
The Moon is currently 14.5% visible
It’s a Waxing Crescent moon
We’ll have the First Quarter Moon in 3 days on Thursday the 29th of December of 2022 at 5:21 pm
Today is…
Today is also…
Day of Good Will in South Africa and Namibia
Thanksgiving in the Solomon Islands
Independence and Unity Day in Slovenia
Mauro Hamza Day in Houston, Texas
Mummer's Day in Padstow, Cornwall
St. Stephen's Day, a public holiday in Alsace, Austria, Catalonia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovakia and Switzerland
Father's Day in Bulgaria
The first day of Kwanzaa. The black candle is lit in the Kinara which represents the first principle – Umoja (oo-MOH-jah): Unity.
The first day of Junkanoo street parade, the second day is on the New Year's Day in The Bahamas
The second day of the Twelve Days of Christmas
Second day of Christmas, a Public holiday in the Netherlands, Poland and Slovakia
Veer Baal Divas, is observed to pay tribute to martyr sons of Guru Gobind Singh ji.
Wren Day in Ireland and the Isle of Man
On this day in history…
1871 – Thespis, the first Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, debuts.
1898 – Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
1919 – Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee, allegedly establishing the Curse of the Bambino superstition.
1941 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
1963 – The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw Her Standing There" are released in the United States, marking the beginning of Beatlemania on an international level.
1966 – The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
1978 – The inaugural Paris-Dakar Rally begins.
1980 – Witnesses report the first of several sightings of unexplained lights near RAF Woodbridge, in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, an incident called "Britain's Roswell".
1991 – The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union, ending the Cold War.
2004 – Orange Revolution: The final run-off election in Ukraine is held under heavy international scrutiny.
2012 – China opens the world's longest high-speed rail route, which links Beijing and Guangzhou.
…and if today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your special day with…
1618 – Elisabeth of the Palatinate, German philosopher and abbess (corresponded with René Descartes), born in Heidelberg (d. 1680)
1780 – Mary Fairfax Somerville, Scottish mathematician (d. 1872)
1863 – Charles Pathé, French record producer, co-founded Pathé Records (d. 1957)
1891 – Henry Miller, American author and painter (d. 1980)
1893 – Mao Zedong, Chinese politician, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (d. 1976)
1907 – Albert Gore, Sr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1998)
1914 – Richard Widmark, American actor (d. 2008)
1917 – Rose Mary Woods, American secretary to Richard Nixon (claimed to have erased part of Watergate tapes by accident), born in Sebring, Ohio (d. 2005)
1936 – Kitty Dukakis, wife of Michael (Gov-Mass)
1939 – Phil Spector, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2021)
1942 – Gray Davis, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 37th Governor of California
1949 – José Ramos-Horta, East Timorese lawyer and politician, 2nd President of East Timor, Nobel Prize laureate
1949 – George Winston, American pop-instrumental pianist and composer (Autumn; December; Winter Into Spring), born in Hart, Michigan
1954 – Susan Butcher, American dog musher and 4 x winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 2006)
1956 – David Sedaris, American comedian, author, and radio host
1964 – Elizabeth Kostova, American author (The Historian), born in New London, Connecticut
1966 – Jay Farrar, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1971 – Jared Leto, American actor (My So Called Life, Requiem for a Dream), born in Bossier City, Louisiana
1991 – Gabriella Smith, American contemporary classical composer (Forgotten Lullabyes; Bioluminescence Chaconne), born in Berkeley, California
