Today is Friday, the 12th of January of 2024
January 12 is the 12th day of the year
354 days remain until the end of the year
66 days until spring begins
The sun rose this morning at 7:24:52 am
and sunset will be at 5:12:20 pm.
Today we will have 9 hours and 47 minutes of daylight
The solar transit will be at 12:18:36
Water temperature in San Francisco Bay today is 53.4°F.
The first high tide was at 12:04 am at 5.07 feet
The first low tide was at 4:37 am at 3.01 feet
The next high tide will be at 10:30 am at 6.98 feet
The final low tide at Ocean Beach will be at 6:15 pm.
and The first high tide tomorrow will be at 12:53 am at 5.19 feet
The Moon is currently 2% visible
It’s now a Waxing Crescent
It was a new moon yesterday
The moon rises this morning at 8:48 am
and sets this evening at 6:46 pm
First Quarter Moon in 6 days on Wednesday 17th of January of 2024 at 7:53 pm
Today is….
Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Day
International French Onion Soup Day
International Kiss a Ginger Day
Stick To Your New Year's Resolution Day
Today is also….
Prosecutor General's Day in Russia
Zanzibar Revolution Day in Tanzania
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You get to share cake and ice cream with…
1729 – Edmund Burke, Irish philosopher, academic, and politician (d. 1797)
1863 – Swami Vivekananda, Indian monk and philosopher (d. 1902)
1876 – Jack London, American novelist and journalist (d. 1916)
1904 – Mississippi Fred McDowell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1972)
1905 – Tex Ritter, American actor and singer (d. 1974)
1908 – Clement Hurd, American illustrator (d. 1988)
1923 – Ira Hayes, American marine who raised the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima (d. 1955)
1926 – Morton Feldman, American composer and academic (d. 1987)
1926 – Ray Price, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
1928 – Ruth Brown, American R&B singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2006)
1930 – Glenn Yarbrough, American singer and actor (d. 2016)
1942 – Bernardine Dohrn, American domestic terrorist, political activist and academic
1944 – Joe Frazier, American boxer (d. 2011)
1946 – George Duke, American keyboard player, composer, and educator (d. 2013)
1951 – Kirstie Alley, American actress and producer (d. 2022)
1952 – Walter Mosley, American novelist
1957 – John Lasseter, American animator, director, and producer
1958 – Christiane Amanpour, English-Iranian journalist
1985 – Issa Rae, American actress, writer, director, producer and web series creator
1992 – HAL 9000, Artificial intelligence from Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series
…and on this day in history…
1915 – The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote.
1932 – Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
1967 – Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
1969 – The New York Jets of the American Football League defeat the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League to win Super Bowl III in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.
1971 – The Harrisburg Seven: Rev. Philip Berrigan and five other activists are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
1976 – The United Nations Security Council votes 11–1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
1998 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
2001 – Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
2004 – The world's largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.
