Today is Tuesday, the 22nd of August of 2023
August 22 is the 234th day of the year
131 days remain until the end of the year.
32 days until autumn begins
The sun rose this morning at 6:31:28 am
and the sun will set this evening at 7:52:37 pm
Today we will have 13 hours and 21 minutes of daylight
The solar transit will be at 1:12:02 pm.
Water temperature in San Francisco Bay today is 68.5°F.
The first high tide was at 3:01 am at 4.27 feet
The first low tide will be at 8:38 am at 2.07 feet
The next high tide will be at 3:15 pm at 5.66 feet
and the final low tide at Ocean Beach tonight will be at 10:03 pm at 1.38 feet
The Moon is currently 31.4% visible
It’s a Waxing Crescent moon
We’ll have the First Quarter Moon in 2 days on Thursday the 24th of August of 2023 at 2:57 am
Today is…
Southern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo Day
Today is also…
Madras Day in Chennai and Tamil Nadu, India
End of Fil-seta feast in the Ethiopian Orthodox Te-wa-he-do and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church
International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you! You get to share your special day with
1862 – Claude Debussy, French pianist and composer (d. 1918)
1880 – George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)
1893 – Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist (d. 1967)
1904 – Deng Xiaoping, Chinese soldier and politician, 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1997)
1908 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer and painter (d. 2004)
1915 – David Dellinger, American activist (d. 2004)
1917 – John Lee Hooker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2001)
1920 – Ray Bradbury, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (d. 2012)
1928 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer and academic (d. 2007)
1934 – Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., American general and engineer (d. 2012)
1935 – Annie Proulx, American novelist, short story writer, and journalist
1939 – Valerie Harper, American actress (d. 2019)
1939 – Carl Yastrzemski, American baseball player
1947 – Cindy Williams, American actress and producer (d. 2023
1963 – Tori Amos, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
1966 – GZA, American rapper and producer
1973 – Kristen Wiig, American actress, comedian, and screenwriter
1978 – James Corden, English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter
1995 – Dua Lipa, English singer-songwriter
….and on this day in history…
1654 – Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.
1791 – The Haitian slave revolution begins in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.
1846 – The Second Federal Republic of Mexico is established.
1851 – The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.
1864 – Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention, establishing the rules of protection of the victims of armed conflicts.
1894 – Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal, in South Africa.
1902 – The Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
1902 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
1966 – Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), the predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
1978 – The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Congress, although it is never ratified by a
sufficient number of states.
1989 – Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
