Today is Friday, the 10th of May of 2024
May 10 is the 131st day of the year
235 days remain until the end of the year.
41 days until summer begins
The sun rose this morning at 6:03:28 am
and sunset will be at 8:09:54 pm.
Today we will have 14 hours and 6 minutes of daylight
The solar transit will be at 1:06:41 pm.
Water temperature in San Francisco Bay today is 60.3°F
The first high tide was at 12:02 am at 6.51 feet
The first low tide will be at 7:16 am at -1.4 feet
The next high tide will be at 2:30 pm at 4.75 feet
and the final low tide at Ocean Beach this evening will be at 7:01 pm at 3.01 feet
The Moon is currently 7.4% visible
Today is….
Fintastic Friday: Giving Sharks a Voice
Military Spouse Appreciation Day
Today is also….
Golden Spike Day (Promontory, Utah)
Mother's Day (Guatemala, and Mexico)
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you! You share your special day with…
….and on this day in history….
28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.
1824 – The National Gallery in London opens to the public.
1872 – Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
1876 – The Centennial Exposition is opened in Philadelphia.
1908 – Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.
1962 – Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.
1975 – Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder.
1994 – Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
2013 – One World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.
2022 – Queen Elizabeth II misses the State Opening of Parliament for the first time in 59 years. It was the first time that a new session of Parliament was opened by the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge acting as Counsellors of State.
