Today is Monday the 28th of October of 2024,
It is the 302nd day of the year
64 days remain until the end of the year.
54 days until winter begins
And it’s now 7 days and 18 hours until Election Day
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 7:31:59 am
and sunset will be at 6:14:02 pm.
We will have 10 hours and 42 minutes of daylight
Daylight Savings Time in the US ends early Sunday Morning November 3rd
The solar transit will be at 12:53:00 pm.
The first low tide was at 2:44 am at 0.87 feet
The first high tide will be at 9:18 am at 5.51 feet
The next low tide at 3:29 pm at 1.31 feet
and the final high tide at Ocean Beach will be tonight at 9:18 pm at 4.74 feet
The Moon is currently 14 going on 13% visible
It’s a Waning Crescent moon
We’ll have a New Moon in 7 days of Friday the 1st of November of 2024 at 5:47 am
Today is….
Honoring the Nation's First Responders Day
National Internal Medicine Day
Separation of Church and State Day
Statue of Liberty Dedication Day
Today is also….
Day of the Establishment of an Independent Czecho-Slovak State, celebrates the independence of Czechoslovakia from Austria-Hungary in 1918 celebrated in Czech Republic and Slovakia
Ohi Day a national day in Greece, also celebrated in Cyprus and the Greek communities
Prefectural Earthquake Disaster Prevention Day in Gifu Prefecture, Japan
Youth Pledge Day or Hari Sumpah Pemuda in Indonesia
Anniversary of the liberation of Ukraine from the Nazis, celebrating the liberation from Nazi German troops of the territory of current Ukraine
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your special day with….
1466 – Erasmus, Dutch philosopher (d. 1536)
1902 – Elsa Lanchester, English-American actress and singer (d. 1986)
1903 – Evelyn Waugh, English journalist, author, and critic (d. 1966)
1914 – Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (d. 1995)
1917 – Jack Soo, American actor and singer (d. 1979)
1927 – Cleo Laine, English singer and actress
1936 – Charlie Daniels, American singer-songwriter, fiddle-player and guitarist (d. 2020)
1936 – Ted Hawkins, American soul-blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1995)
1939 – Jane Alexander, American actress and producer
1945 – Sandy Berger, American lawyer and politician, 19th United States National Security Advisor (d. 2015)
1949 – Caitlyn Jenner, American decathlete and actress
1952 – Annie Potts, American actress
1955 – Bill Gates, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Microsoft
1959 – James Keelaghan, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
1966 – Matt Drudge, American blogger and activist, founded the Drudge Report
1967 – Julia Roberts, American actress and producer
1969 – Ben Harper, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1972 – Brad Paisley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1974 – Joaquin Phoenix, American actor and producer
….and on this day in history….
1420 – Beijing is officially designated the capital of the Ming dynasty when the Forbidden City is completed.
1492 – Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World, surmising that it is Japan.
1520 – Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean.
1636 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony votes to establish a theological college, which would later become Harvard University.
1726 – The novel Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift is published.
1886 – US president Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
1893 – Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death.
1919 – The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
1942 – The Alaska Highway first connects Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek in Canada.
1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis ends and Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
2007 – Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first directly elected female President of Argentina.
2009 – US President Barack Obama signs the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
