Today is Thursday, the 27th of June of 2024,
June 27 is the 179th day of the year
187 days remain until the end of the year.
87 days until autumn begins
The sun rose an hour ago at 5:50:12 am
and sunset will be at 8:36:03 pm
Tomorrow we will have 14 hours and 45 minutes of daylight
(One minute less than yesterday!)
The solar transit will be at 1:13:07 pm.
Water temperature in San Francisco Bay today is 63.1°F.
the first high tide will be at 2:50 am at 5.24 feet
The first low tide will be at 9:32 am at -0.29 feet
The next high tide at 4:43 pm at 5.49 feet
and the final low tide at Ocean Beach tonight will be at 10:40 pm at 2.18 feet
The Moon: is currently 66.3% visible
It’s a Waning Gibbous
We’ll have the Last Quarter Moon tomorrow afternoon at 2:53 pm
Today is….
Industrial Workers of the World Day
National Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Day
Today is also….
Canadian Multiculturalism Day (Canada)
Commemoration Day for the Victims of the Communist Regime (Czech Republic)
Day of Turkmen Workers of Culture and Art and poetry of Magtymguly Pyragy (Turkmenistan)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Djibouti from France in 1977.
Seven Sleepers' Day or Siebenschläfertag (Germany)
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your special day with….
1850 – Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-Japanese historian and author (d. 1904)
1869 – Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-Canadian philosopher and activist (d. 1940)
1872 – Paul Laurence Dunbar, American author, poet, and playwright (d. 1906)
1880 – Helen Keller, American author, academic, and activist (d. 1968)
1927 – Bob Keeshan, American actor and producer (d. 2004)
1930 – Ross Perot, American businessman and politician (d. 2019)
1932 – Anna Moffo, American operatic soprano (d. 2006)
1936 – Lucille Clifton, American author and poet (d. 2010)
1938 – Bruce Babbitt, American lawyer and politician, 47th United States Secretary of the Interior
1942 – Danny Schechter, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1953 – Alice McDermott, American novelist
1959 – Dan Jurgens, American author and illustrator
1966 – J. J. Abrams, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1984 – Khloé Kardashian, American model, businesswoman, and radio host
…and on this day in history….
1895 – The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
1946 – In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.
1974 – U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.
1981 – The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party issues its "Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China", laying the blame for the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong.
2007 – Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997. His Chancellor, Gordon Brown succeeds him.
