Today is Monday the 29th of May of 2023
May 29 is the 149th day of the year
216 days remain until the end of the year.
23 days until summer begins
The sun rose this morning at 5:50:35 am
and the sun will set this evening at 8:24:42 pm.
Today we will have 14 hours and 34 minutes of daylight
Solar noon will be at 1:07:38 pm.
Water temperature in San Francisco Bay today is 59.7°F.
The first low tide was at 1:45 am at 1.88 feet
The first high tide will be at 6:55 am at 3.75 feet
The next low tide will be at 1:05 pm at 1.08 feet
and the final high tide at Ocean Beach tonight will be 7:50 pm at 5.21 feet
The Moon is currently 68.0% visible
It’s a Waxing Gibbous Moon
We’ll have a Full Moon in 6 days on Saturday the 3rd of June of 2023 at 8:42 pm
Today is…
Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day
Today is also…
Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh in the Baháʼí Faith
International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
National Elderly Day in Indonesia
Statehood Day in Rhode Island and Wisconsin
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this special day with…
1860 – Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (d. 1909)
1903 – Bob Hope, English-American actor, singer, and producer (d. 2003)
1914 – Stacy Keach Sr., American actor (d. 2003)
1914 – Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese-Indian mountaineer (d. 1986)
1917 – John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963)
1922 – Iannis Xenakis, Greek-French composer, engineer, and theorist (d. 2001)
1933 – Helmuth Rilling, German conductor and educator
1939 – Al Unser, American race car driver (d. 2021)
1941 – Bob Simon, American journalist (d. 2015)
1956 – La Toya Jackson, American singer-songwriter and actress
1958 – Annette Bening, American actress
1961 – Melissa Etheridge, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and activist
1972 – Laverne Cox, American actress and LGBT advocate
1974 – Aaron McGruder, American author and cartoonist
…and on this day in history…
1660 – English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1851 – Sojourner Truth delivers her famous Ain't I a Woman? speech at the Woman’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.
1852 – Jenny Lind leaves New York after her two-year American tour.
1913 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, France, provoking a riot.
1953 – Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
1973 – Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
1988 – The U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
1999 – Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
2001 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
2004 – The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
