Today is Friday, the 1st of December of 2023,
December 1 is the 335th day of the year
30 days remain until the end of the year.
20 days until winter begins
The sun will rise in a few minutes at 7:06:32 am
and the sun will set this afternoon at 4:51:05 pm.
Water temperature in San Francisco Bay today is 55.9°F.
The first high tide will be at 3:19 am
and the next high tide at 1:06 pm.
The first low tide will be at 7:35 am
and the next low tide at 8:18 pm.
We will have 9 hours and 44 minutes of daylight today
The solar transit will be at 11:58:48 am.
The Moon is currently 82.2% visible
Last Quarter Moon in 3 days Monday the 4th of December of 2023 at 9:49 pm
Moonset this morning at 11:11 am this morning
and Moonrise at 8:49 pm tonight
Today is…
Also known as Day of Courage and National Day of Courage
On this day in 1955 –In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.
Bifocals at the Monitor Liberation Day
International Sweater Vestival
Today is also….
Battle of the Sinop Day in Russia
Damrong Rajanubhab Day in Thailand
First President Day in Kazakhstan
Freedom and Democracy Day in Chad
Great Union Day, celebrates the Union of Transylvania with Romania in 1918 in Romania
Military Abolition Day in Costa Rica
Republic Day in the Central African Republic
Restoration of Independence Day in Portugal
Self-governance Day or Fullveldisdagurinn in Iceland
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your special day with…
1761 – Marie Tussaud, French-English sculptor, founded Madame Tussauds Wax Museum (d. 1850)
1792 – Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and geometer (d. 1856)
1886 – Rex Stout, American detective novelist (d. 1975)
1886 – Zhu De, Chinese general and politician, 1st Vice Chairman of the People's Republic of China (d. 1976)
1896 – Georgy Zhukov, Russian general and politician, 2nd Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (d. 1974)
1913 – Mary Martin, American actress and singer (d. 1990)
1923 – Dick Shawn, American actor (d. 1987)
1923 – Stansfield Turner, American admiral and academic, 12th Director of Central Intelligence (d. 2018)
1933 – Lou Rawls, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 2006)
1934 – Billy Paul, American soul singer (d. 2016)
1939 – Lee Trevino, American golfer and sportscaster
1940 – Richard Pryor, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2005)
1945 – Bette Midler, American singer-songwriter, actress and producer
1946 – Jonathan Katz, American comedian and actor
1946 – Gilbert O'Sullivan, Irish singer-songwriter and pianist
1949 – Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist (d. 1993)
1951 – Jaco Pastorius, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (d. 1987)
1958 – Candace Bushnell, American journalist and author
1970 – Sarah Silverman, American comedian, actress, and singer
1976 – Laura Ling, American journalist and author
1976 – Matthew Shepard, American hate crime victim (d. 1998)
1985 – Janelle Monáe, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1988 – Zoë Kravitz, American actress, singer, and model
….and on this day in history….
1662 – Diarist John Evelyn records skating on the frozen lake in St James's Park, London, watched by Charles II and Queen Catherine.
1824 – United States presidential election: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1834 – Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony (in Modern Day South Africa) in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
1862 – In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
1865 – Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
1878 – President Rutherford B. Hayes gets the first telephone installed in the White House.
1918 – Transylvania unites with Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28) and thus concluding the Great Union.
1918 – Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
1919 – Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament (MP) to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. (She had been elected to that position on November 28.)
1952 – The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.
1955 – American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.
1959 – Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.
1973 – Papua New Guinea gains self-government from Australia.
1988 – World AIDS Day is proclaimed worldwide by the UN member states.
1988 – Benazir Bhutto, is named as the Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first female leader to lead a muslim nation.
1990 – Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet beneath the seabed.
1991 – Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
2000 – Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.
2006 – The law on same-sex marriage came into force in South Africa for the first time on the African continent.
