Today is Monday the 4th of November of 2024,
November 4 is the 309th day of the year
57 days remain until the end of the year.
47 days until winter begins
And 19 Hours until Election Day, tomorrow
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:39:17 am
and sunset will be at 5:06:36 pm.
Today we will have 10 hours and 27 minutes of daylight
The solar transit will be at 11:52:56 am.
The first high tide was at 1:02 am at 4.53 feet
The first low tide will be at 5:21 am at 3.33 feet
The next high tide will be at 11:13 pm at 5.95 feet
and the final low tide at Ocean Beach tonight will be at 6:29 pm at -0.32 feet
The Moon is currently 8.5% visible
It’s a Waxing Crescent moon
We’ll have the First Quarter Moon in 5 days Friday the 8th of November of 2024 at 9:56 pm
Today is….
Broadcast Traffic Professionals Day
National Waiting for the Barbarians Day
Today is also….
Community Service Day (Dominica)
National Unity and Armed Forces Day or Giorno dell'Unità Nazionale e Festa delle Forze Armate (Italy)
Yitzhak Rabin Memorial (unofficial, but widely commemorated)
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to You! You share your special day with….
1879 – Will Rogers, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1935)
1913 – Gig Young, American actor (d. 1978)
1916 – Walter Cronkite, American journalist, voice actor, and producer (d. 2009)
1918 – Art Carney, American actor (d. 2003)
1919 – Martin Balsam, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1932 – Tommy Makem, Irish folk singer, born in Keady, County Armagh, Northern Ireland (d. 2007)
1937 – Loretta Swit, American actress and singer
1940 – Delbert McClinton, American singer-songwriter
1946 – Laura Bush, American educator and librarian, 45th First Lady of the United States
1946 – Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (d. 1989)
1961 – Les Sampou, American folk singer-songwriter, born in Norwalk, Connecticut
1969 – Sean Combs, American rapper, producer, and actor
1969 – Matthew McConaughey, American actor and producer
….and on this day in history….
1783 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, a Scottish physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.
1924 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States.
1952 – The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA.
1970 – Salvador Allende takes office as President of Chile, the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections.
1973 – The Netherlands experiences the first car-free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are used only by cyclists and roller skaters.
1979 – Iran hostage crisis: A group of Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages.
1980 – Ronald Reagan is elected as the 40th President of the United States, defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter.
1995 – Israel-Palestinian conflict: Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Israeli.
2008 – Barack Obama becomes the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected as President of the United States.
