Today is Friday, the 23rd of June of 2023,
June 23 is the 174th day of the year
191 days remain until the end of the year.
92 days until autumn begins
The sun rose this morning in San Francisco at 5:48:36 am
and the sun sets this evening at 8:35:47 pm.
We will have 14 hours and 47 minutes of daylight
Solar noon will be at 1:12:11 pm.
Water temperature in San Francisco Bay today is 62.6°F.
The first high tide will be at 1:50 am at 5.13 feet
The first low tide will be at 9:05 am at -0.06 feet
The next high tide at 4:26 pm at 4.75 feet
and the final low tide at Ocean Beach tonight will be at 9:46 pm at 3.06 feet
The Moon is currently 24% visible
It’s a Waxing Crescent moon
We’ll have the First Quarter Moon in 3 days on Monday the 26th of June of 2023 at 12:50 am
Today is…
National Detroit-Style Pizza Day
International Women in Engineering Day
Today is also…
Father's Day in both Nicaragua and Poland
Grand Duke's Official Birthday in Luxembourg
National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Terrorism in Canada
Okinawa Memorial Day in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
Saint John's Eve and the first day of the Midsummer celebrations in the Roman Catholic Church, in Europe
Bonfires of Saint John in Spain
First night of Festa de São João do Porto in Porto, Portugal
First day of Golowan Festival in Cornwall, England
Kupala Night in Belarus,Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Ukraine
Last day of Drăgaica fair in Buzău, Romania
United Nations Public Service Day
Victory Day (also) in Estonia
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your special day with…
1889 – Anna Akhmatova, Ukrainian-Russian poet and author (d. 1966)
1894 – Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist (d. 1956)
1910 – Milt Hinton, American bassist and photographer (d. 2000)
1912 – Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1954)
1927 – Bob Fosse, American actor, dancer, choreographer, and director (d. 1987)
1929 – June Carter Cash, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress (d. 2003)
1941 – Robert Hunter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2019)
1943 – James Levine, American pianist and conductor (d. 2021)
1948 – Clarence Thomas, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1957 – Frances McDormand, American actress, winner of the Triple Crown of Acting
1972 – Selma Blair, American actress
1975 – KT Tunstall, Scottish singer-songwriter and musician
…and on this day in history…
1683 – William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
1713 – The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada.
1868 – Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer".
1894 – The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
1917 – In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.
1926 – The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
1959 – Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.
1960 – The United States Food and Drug Administration declares Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world.
1961 – The Antarctic Treaty System, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and limits military activity on the continent, its islands and ice shelves, comes into force.
1969 – IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.
1972 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about illegally using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
1972 – Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 is amended to prohibit sexual discrimination to any educational program receiving federal funds.
1991 – Sonic the Hedgehog is released in North America on the Sega Genesis platform, beginning the popular video game franchise.
1994 – NASA's Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Station, officially opens at Kennedy Space Center.
2013 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope.
2014 – The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction.
2016 – The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%.
2018 – Twelve boys and an assistant coach from a soccer team in Thailand are trapped in a flooding cave, leading to an 18-day rescue operation.
Joe Burke, erstwhile KALW morning edition host and creator of the KALW Morning Almanac will be performing
This Wednesday the 28th starting at 4pm at The Golden Gate Bandshell. This will be a singer-songwriter show. He’ll be in the same show with Ray Vaughn as well as the band Lakeville. This is part of Illuminate Live; Live Free Performances in Golden Gate Park in association with San Francisco Parks And Rec. Go to