Today is Thursday, the 18th of July of 2024
July 18 is the 200th day of the year
166 days remain until the end of the year.
66 days until autumn begins
The sun rose this morning at 6:02:45 am
and sun sets this evening at 8:28:59 pm.
We will have 14 hours and 26 minutes of daylight today
The solar transit will be at 1:15:52 pm.
Water temperature in San Francisco Bay today is 66.2°F.
The first low tide will be at 3:36 am at -0.24 feet
The first high tide will be at 10:54 am at 4.44 feet
The next low tide at 2:51 pm at 3.48 feet
and the final high tide at Ocean Beach tonight will be at 8:48 pm at 6.49 feet
The Moon is currently 90% visible
It’s a Waxing Gibbous
We’ll have a Full Moon in 3 days Sunday the 21st of July of 2024 at 3:17 am
The July Moon is called the Full Buck Moon
Today is….
Get to Know Your Customers Day
Today is also….
Nelson Mandela International Day
It’s Nelson Mandela’s Birthday Today! Happy Birthday To You if it is indeed your birthday today! You get to blow out candles with….
1867 – Margaret Brown, American philanthropist and activist (d. 1932)
1895 – Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (d. 1954)
1906 – S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American academic and politician (d. 1992)
1906 – Clifford Odets, American director, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1963)
1908 – Peace Pilgrim, American mystic and activist (d. 1981)
1909 – Andrei Gromyko, Belarusian-Russian economist and politician, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1989)
1911 – Hume Cronyn, Canadian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2003)
1913 – Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (d. 1997)
1918 – Nelson Mandela, South African lawyer and politician, 1st President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
1921 – John Glenn, American colonel, astronaut, and politician (d. 2016)
1926 – Elizabeth Jennings, English poet (d. 2001)
1927 – Kurt Masur, German conductor and educator (d. 2015)
1929 – Screamin' Jay Hawkins, American R&B singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (d. 2000)
1933 – Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet and playwright (d. 2017)
1937 – Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (d. 2005)
1939 – Dion DiMucci, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1940 – James Brolin, American actor
1940 – Joe Torre, American baseball player, manager, and executive
1941 – Lonnie Mack, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2016)
1941 – Martha Reeves, American singer and politician
1947 – Steve Forbes, American publisher and politician
1954 – Ricky Skaggs, American singer-songwriter, mandolin player, and producer
1961 – Elizabeth McGovern, American actress
1967 – Vin Diesel, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1969 – Elizabeth Gilbert, American author
….and on this day in history….
1968 – Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.
1976 – Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
2013 – The Government of Detroit, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
