Today is Thursday, the 22nd of August of 2024
August 22 is the 235th day of the year
131 days remain until the end of the year.
31 days until autumn begins
75 Days (really 74 days and (so many hours) until Election Day Tuesday November 5
The sun rises at 6:32:07 am
and sunset will be at 7:51:34 pm.
Today we will have 13 hours and 19 minutes of daylight
The solar transit will be at 1:11:50 pm.
Water temperature in San Francisco Bay is ………
The first high tide was at 12:50 am at 6.12 feet
The first low tide will be at 7:09 am at 0.08 feet
The next high tide at 1:41 pm at 6.08 feet
and the final low tide at Ocean Beach tonight at 7:43 pm at 1 foot
The Moon: --% visible
It’s a Waning Gibbous
We’ll have the Last Quarter Moon in 4 days on Monday the 26th of August of 2024 at 2:26 am
Today is….
Southern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo Day
Today is also….
Madras Day (Chennai and Tamil Nadu, India)
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You get to have cake and ice cream with…..
1862 – Claude Debussy, French pianist and composer (d. 1918)
1880 – George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)
1893 – Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist (d. 1967)
1904 – Deng Xiaoping, Chinese soldier and politician, 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1997)
1908 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer and painter (d. 2004)
1909 – Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2000)
1915 – David Dellinger, American activist (d. 2004)
1917 – John Lee Hooker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2001)
1920 – Ray Bradbury, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (d. 2012)
1928 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer and academic (d. 2007)
1934 – Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., American general and engineer (d. 2012)
1935 – Annie Proulx, American novelist, short story writer, and journalist
1939 – Valerie Harper, American actress (d. 2019)
1939 – Carl Yastrzemski, American baseball player
1947 – Cindy Williams, American actress and producer (d. 2023)
1948 – David Marks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[23]
1950 – Scooter Libby, American lawyer and politician, Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States
1963 – Tori Amos, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
1965 – David Reimer, Canadian man, born male but reassigned female and raised as a girl after a botched circumcision (d. 2004)
1966 – GZA, American rapper and producer
1973 – Kristen Wiig, American actress, comedian, and screenwriter
….and on this day in history….
1639 – Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
1791 – The Haitian slave revolution begins in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.
1846 – The Second Federal Republic of Mexico is established.
1851 – The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.
1864 – Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention, establishing the rules of protection of the victims of armed conflicts.
1902 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
1965 – Juan Marichal, pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, strikes John Roseboro, catcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, on the head with a bat, sparking a 14-minute brawl, one of the most violent on-field incidents in sports history.
1966 – Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), the predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
1972 – Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
1978 – The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Congress, although it is never ratified by a sufficient number of states.
1989 – Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
2003 – Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
