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Almanac - Wednesday October 25, 2023

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Today is Wednesday, 25th of October of 2023

October 25 is the 298th day of the year

67 days remain until the end of the year.

58 days until winter begins

The sun will rise in San Francisco at 7:28:09 am

and sunset will be at 6:18:28 pm.

We will have 10 hours and 50 minutes of daylight today

The solar transit will be at 12:53:18 pm.

Water temperature in San Francisco right now is (brr) 62.4°F

the first low tide was at 2:18 am at 0.03 feet

The first high tide will be at 9:01 am at 5.69 feet

The next low tide at 2:58 pm at 1.33 feet

and the final high tide at Ocean Beach will be tonight at 8:51 pm at 5.47 feet

Moonset was early this morning was at 3:40 am ↑ (259°)

and Moonrise will be this afternoon at 4:51 pm ↑ (96°)

The Moon is currently 85.7% visible

It's a Waxing Gibbous moon

and we'll have a Full Moon in 3 days on Saturday the 28th of October of 2023 at 1:24 pm

as well as a Partial Lunar Eclipse

Today is...

International Artist Day

Lung Health Day

National Cartoonists Against Crime Day

National Greasy Foods Day

National I Care About You Day

National Merri Music Day

Punk for a Day Day

Sourest Day

Unity Day

World Pasta Day

World Pizza Makers Day

Today is also...

Armed Forces Day in Romania

Customs Officer's Day in Russia

Day of the Basque Country

Republic Day in Kazakhstan

Retrocession Day in Taiwan

Sovereignty Day in Slovenia

Thanksgiving Day in Grenada

If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You get to share birthday cake with...

1825 – Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer and educator (d. 1899)

1838 – Georges Bizet, French pianist and composer (d. 1875)

1881 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1973)

1886 – Leo G. Carroll, English-American actor (d. 1972)

1902 – Eddie Lang, American jazz guitarist (d. 1933)

1912 – Minnie Pearl, American entertainer and philanthropist (d. 1996)

1928 – Marion Ross, American actress

1930 – Harold Brodkey, American author and academic (d. 1996)

1939 – Sara Dylan, American actress and model

1941 – Helen Reddy, Australian-American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2020)

1944 – Jon Anderson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

1944 – James Carville, American lawyer and political consultant

1950 – John Matuszak, American footballer (d. 1989)

1955 – Robin Eubanks, American trombonist and educator

1957 – Nancy Cartwright, American voice actress

1963 – Tracy Nelson, American actress

1969 – Samantha Bee, Canadian-American comedian and television host

1971 – Midori, Japanese-American violinist and educator

1975 – Zadie Smith, English author and academic

1984 – Katy Perry, American singer-songwriter and actress

...and on this day in history...

1760 – King George III succeeds to the British throne on the death of his grandfather George II.

1917 – Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.

1940 – Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.

1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.

1971 – The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations.

1983 – The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état.

2001 – Microsoft releases Windows XP, which becomes one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems.

Kevin Vance created a program of folk music for KALW, A Patchwork Quilt, in October 1991. He grew up in Berkeley during the 1960s and '70s and spent his years learning in public schools, community colleges, bookstores, libraries, and non-commercial radio stations, as well as from the people around him. When he's not on the radio, then he's selling books, taking care of his family, listening to music, entering stuff into a computer, or taking a class.