Today is Friday, the 16th of February of 2024
February 16 is the 47th day of the year
319 days remain until the end of the year
31 days until spring begins
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:58:20 am
and sunset will be at 5:50:32 pm.
Today we will have 10 hours and 52 minutes of daylight
That will be two minutes and 15 seconds more daylight than yesterday
The solar transit will be at 12:24:26 pm.
Water temperature in San Francisco Bay today is 53.4°F.
The first high tide was at 3:19 am at 6.14 feet
The first low tide will be at 10:45 am at 3.95 feet
The next high tide will be at 5:38 pm at 3.95 feet
and the final low tide at Ocean Beach tonight will be at 9:58 pm at 2.89 feet
The Moon is currently 49.2% visible
We are in the First Quarter phase
The Moon set this morning at 1:01 am
and will rise at 10:52 am
Today is….
NATIONAL NO ONE EATS ALONE DAY
Today is also….
as it was on this day in 2005 – The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
Day of the Shining Star (Kim Jong Il's birthday, b.1941-d.2011) (North Korea)
Restoration of Lithuania's Statehood Day, celebrate the independence of Lithuania from Russia and Germany in 1918 (Lithuania)
Elizabeth Peratrovich Day (Alaska) She was a Tlingit Civil Rights leader. Because of her work, and the work of so many others, On this day in 1945 – The Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945, the first anti-discrimination law in the United States, was signed into law.
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your birthday with these notable people in Black History…
James Baskett, the first male African American to win an Academy Award, was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on February 16, 1904. He played the leading role in Disney’s Song Of The South.
The actor LeVar Burton was born on this day. February 16, 1957 in Germany. Burton’s mother raised him and his two sisters in Sacramento, California.
Tracy Marrow, better known as Ice T was born on February 16, 1958 in Newark, New Jersey.
1982 – Lupe Fiasco, American rapper
1990 – The Weeknd, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
Also on this day in Black History….
Feb 16, 1857 Frederick Douglass elected President of Freedman Bank and Trust.
also on this day in history…
1959 – Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
1968 – In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
1978 – The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago).
2006 – The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
Also Born on this day….
1222 – Nichiren, founder of Nichiren Buddhism (d. 1282)
1903 – Edgar Bergen, American ventriloquist and actor (d. 1978)
1909 – Hugh Beaumont, American actor and director (d. 1982)
1926 – Margot Frank, German-Dutch holocaust victim (d. 1945)
1935 – Sonny Bono, American actor, singer, and politician (d. 1998)
1935 – Stephen Gaskin, American activist, co-founded The Farm (d. 2014)
1954 – Margaux Hemingway, American model and actress (d. 1996)
1989 – Elizabeth Olsen, American actress
