Today is Monday, 8th of January of 2024,
January 8 is the eighth day of the year
358 days remain until the end of the year
70 days until spring begins
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 7:25:29 am
and sunset will be at 5:08:25 pm.
Today we will have 9 hours and 42 minutes of daylight
The solar transit will be at 12:16:57 pm.
Water temperature in San Francisco Bay today is 54.1°F
The first low tide was at 1:18 am at 3.32 feet
The first high tide will be at 7:02 am at 6.41 feet
The next low tide will be at 2:49 pm at -0.59 feet
the final high tide at Ocean Beach tonight will be at 10:05 pm at 4.58 feet
The Moon is currently 11.1% visible
It’s a Waning Crescent moon
The moon rose this morning at 4:52 am
and will set this afternoon at 2:14 pm
We’ll have a New Moon in 3 days Thursday the 11th of January of 2024 at 3:57 am
Today is…
National Clean Off Your Desk Day
National Winter Skin Relief Day
Today is also…
Commonwealth Day (Northern Mariana Islands)
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your special day with….
1862 – Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher, founded the Doubleday Publishing Company (d. 1934
1911 – Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress, dancer, and author (d. 1970)
1912 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican-American actor and director (d. 1992)
1912 – Lawrence Walsh, Canadian-American lawyer, judge, and politician, 4th United States Deputy Attorney General (d. 2014)
1923 – Larry Storch, American actor and comedian (d. 2022)
1926 – Soupy Sales, American comedian and actor (d. 2009)
1931 – Bill Graham, German-American businessman (d. 1991)
1933 – Charles Osgood, American soldier and journalist
1935 – Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor (d. 1977)
1938 – Bob Eubanks, American game show host and producer
1941 – Graham Chapman, English actor and screenwriter (d. 1989)
1942 – Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author (d. 2018)
1944 – Terry Brooks, American lawyer and author
1947 – David Bowie, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 2016)
1952 – Vladimir Feltsman, Russian-American pianist and educator
1958 – Betsy DeVos, American businesswoman and politician, 11th Secretary of Education
1964 – Ron Sexsmith, Canadian singer-songwriter
1982 (or 1983) – Kim Jong-un, North Korean soldier and politician, 3rd Supreme Leader of North Korea
…and on this day in history…
1790 – George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York City.
1828 – The Democratic Party of the United States is organized.
1867 – The United States Congress passes the bill to allow African American men the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
1889 – Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
1912 – The African National Congress is founded, under the name South African Native National Congress (SANNC).
1959 – Charles de Gaulle is proclaimed as the first President of the French Fifth Republic.
1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
1972 – Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh.
1973 – Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
1975 – Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.
1982 – Breakup of the Bell System: In the United States, AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
2002 – President of the United States George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act
2011 – Sitting US Congresswoman Gabby Giffords is shot in the head along with 18 others in a mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona. Giffords survived the assassination attempt, but six others died, including John Roll, a federal judge
2023 – Supporters of former Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro storm the Brazilian Congress.
