Today is Thursday, the 14th of December of 2023,
December 14 is the 348th day of the year
17 days remain until the end of the year.
7 days until winter begins
The December solstice (winter solstice) in San Francisco will be at 7:27 pm on Thursday, December 21, 2023.
The sun will rise this morning in San Francisco at 7:17:22 am
and sunset will be at 4:51:59 pm.
Today we will have 9 hours and 34 minutes of daylight
The solar transit will be at 12:04:40 pm.
Water temperature in San Francisco Bay today is 54.5°F
The first high tide was at 12:28 am at 4.88 feet
The first low tide was at 4:43 am at 3.37 feet
The next high tide will be at 10:37 am at 6.74 feet
and the final low tide at Ocean Beach tonight will be at 5:55 pm at -1.38 feet
The Moon is currently 3.5% visible
It’s a Waxing Crescent moon
Moonrise at 9:22 am
Moonset at 6:35 pm
First Quarter Moon in 5 days Tuesday the 19th of December of 2023 at 10:39 am
Today is….
National Biscuits and Gravy Day
Today is also….
Forty-seven Ronin Remembrance Day (Sengaku-ji, Tokyo)
Martyred Intellectuals Day (Bangladesh)
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your special day with….
1852 – Daniel De Leon, Curaçaoan-American journalist and politician (d. 1914)
1896 – Jimmy Doolittle, American general and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1993)
1897 – Margaret Chase Smith, American educator and politician (d. 1995)
1908 – Morey Amsterdam, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1911 – Spike Jones, American singer and bandleader (d. 1965)
1916 – Shirley Jackson, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1965)
1917 – June Taylor, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2004)
1918 – B. K. S. Iyengar, Indian yoga instructor and author, founded Iyengar Yoga (d. 2014)
1920 – Clark Terry, American trumpet player, composer, and educator (d. 2015)
1922 – Don Hewitt, American journalist and producer, created 60 Minutes (d. 2009)
1924 – Raj Kapoor, Indian actor, director, and producer (d. 1988)
1935 – Lee Remick, American actress (d. 1991)
1946 – Patty Duke, American actress (d. 2016)
1947 – Christopher Parkening, American guitarist and educator
1947 – Dilma Rousseff, Brazilian economist and politician, 36th President of Brazil
1948 – Lester Bangs, American journalist and author (d. 1982)
1960 – James Comey, American lawyer, 7th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
1970 – Beth Orton, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
…and on this day in history….
1780 – Founding Father Alexander Hamilton marries Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York.
1782 – The Montgolfier brothers first test fly an unmanned hot air balloon in France; it floats nearly 2.5 km (1.6 mi).
1819 – Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state.
1902 – The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
1903 – The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1918 – The 1918 United Kingdom general election occurs, the first where women were permitted to vote. In Ireland the Irish republican political party Sinn Féin wins a landslide victory with nearly 47% of the popular vote.
1918 – Giacomo Puccini's comic opera Gianni Schicchi premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
1940 – Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.
1962 – NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
1964 – American Civil Rights Movement: Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Congress can use the Constitution's Commerce Clause to fight discrimination.
1985 – Wilma Mankiller takes office as the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
2012 – Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
2017 – The Walt Disney Company announces that it would acquire 21st Century Fox, including the 20th Century Fox movie studio, for $52.4 billion.
2020 – A total solar eclipse is visible from parts of the South Pacific Ocean, southern South America, and the South Atlantic Ocean.
