Today is Thursday, the 16th of May of 2024,
May 16 is the 137th day of the year
229 days remain until the end of the year.
Water temperature in San Francisco Bay today is 58.3°F
35 days until summer begins
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 5:58:15 am
and sunset will be at 8:15:07 pm.
We will have 14 hours and 16 minutes of daylight
The solar transit will be at 1:06:41 pm.
The first low tide was at 12:57 am and 2.46 feet
The first high tide will be at 5:49 am at 4.11 feet
The next low tide at 12:42 pm at 0.56 feet
and the next final tide at Ocean Beach tonight will be at 7:45 pm at 4.95 feet
The Moon is currently 59.6% visible
It’s a Waxing Gibbous moon
We’ll have a Full Moon next Thursday the 23rd of May of 2024 at 6:53 am
Today is…
National Do Something Good for Your Neighbor Day
Global Accessibility Awareness Day
National Check Your Wipers Day (Latin America)
National Coquilles St. Jacques Day
National Horse Rescue Day (Australia)
National Wear Purple for Peace Day
Today is also….
Martyrs of Sudan (Episcopal Church (USA))
National Day, declared by Salva Kiir Mayardit (South Sudan)
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your special day with….
1801 – William H. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Secretary of State (d. 1872)
1804 – Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, American educator who founded the first U.S. kindergarten (d. 1894)
1905 – Henry Fonda, American actor (d. 1982)
1906 – Margret Rey, German author and illustrator (d. 1996)
1912 – Studs Terkel, American historian and author (d. 2008)
1913 – Woody Herman, American singer, saxophonist, and clarinet player (d. 1987)
1919 – Liberace, American pianist and entertainer (d. 1987)
1928 – Billy Martin, American baseball player and coach (d. 1989)
1929 – Betty Carter, American jazz singer (d. 1998)
1929 – Adrienne Rich, American poet, essayist, and feminist (d. 2012)
1937 – Yvonne Craig, American ballet dancer and actress (d. 2015)
1944 – Billy Cobham, Panamanian-American drummer, composer, and bandleader
1944 – Danny Trejo, American actor
1946 – Robert Fripp, English guitarist, songwriter and producer
1951 – Jonathan Richman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1953 – Pierce Brosnan, Irish-American actor and producer
1955 – Olga Korbut, Soviet gymnast
1955 – Debra Winger, American actress
1959 – Mare Winningham, American actress and singer-songwriter
1966 – Janet Jackson, American singer-songwriter actress
1969 – Tucker Carlson, American journalist, co-founded The Daily Caller
1973 – Tori Spelling, American actress, reality television personality, and author
1986 – Megan Fox, American actress
…and on this day in history….
1866 – The United States Congress establishes the nickel.
1868 – The United States Senate fails to convict President Andrew Johnson by one vote.
1888 – Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
1891 – The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opened in Frankfurt, Germany, featuring the world's first long-distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today).
1918 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense. It will be repealed less than two years later.
1920 – In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.
1925 – The first modern performance of Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria occurred in Paris.
1929 – In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place.
1951 – The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
1975 – Junko Tabei from Japan becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest
1988 – A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
1991 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.
