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Almanac - Wednesday November 13, 2024

Chocolate chip bread pudding Sonoma, California
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Chocolate chip bread pudding Sonoma, California

Today is Wednesday, the 13th of November of 2024,

November 13 is the 318th day of the year

48 days remain until the end of the year.

38 days until winter begins

Sunrise at 6:48:52 am

and sunset will be at 4:58:54 pm.

We will have 10 hours and 10 minutes of daylight

The solar transit will be at 11:53:53 am.

Water temperature in Aquatic Park today is 58.5°F

The first low tide was at 1:39 am at 1.12 feet

The first high tide will be at 8:02 am at 6.46 feet

The next low tide at 2:42 pm at -0.23 feet

and the final high tide at Ocean Beach tonight will be at 9:06 pm at 5.03 feet

The Moon is currently 92% visible

It’s a Waxing Gibbous

We’ll have a Full Moon in 2 days on Friday the 15th of November of 2024 at 1:29 pm

This week’s moon is called the Full Beaver Moon

This was the time when beavers finished preparations for winter and retreated into their lodges.

The November Full Moon is also called the…

• Deer Rutting Moon (Dakota, Lakota)
• Digging/Scratching Moon (Tlingit)
• Freezing Moon (Anishinaabe)
• Frost Moon (Cree, Assiniboine)
• Whitefish Moon (Algonquin)

Today is….

Actor's Day

National Bread Pudding Day

National Indian Pudding Day

National Mom's and Dad's Day

Sadie Hawkins Day

Start a Rumor Day

Symphonic Metal Day

World Kindness Day

Today is also….

The anniversary of the November 2015 Paris attacks.

If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your special day with….

1850Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist (d. 1894)

1856Louis Brandeis, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1941)

1913 – Lon Nol, Cambodian general and politician, 37th Prime Minister of Cambodia (d. 1985)

1928 – Hampton Hawes, American pianist and author (d. 1977)

1929 – Fred Phelps, American lawyer, pastor, and activist, founded the Westboro Baptist Church (d. 2014)

1938 – Jean Seberg, American-French actress and singer (d. 1979)

1939 – Idris Muhammad, American drummer and composer (d. 2014)

1946 – Ray Wylie Hubbard, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist

1947 – Amory Lovins, American physicist and environmentalist

1955 – Whoopi Goldberg, American actress, comedian, and talk show host

1967 – Jimmy Kimmel, American comedian, actor, and talk show host

1969 – Lori Berenson, American activist

….and on this day in history….

1833Great Meteor Storm of 1833.

1922 – The United States Supreme Court upholds mandatory vaccinations for public school students in Zucht v. King

1940Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released at New York's Broadway Theatre, on the first night of a roadshow.

1956 – The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery bus boycott.

1969Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against Death.

1982 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.

2013Hawaii legalizes same-sex marriage.

Kevin Vance created a program of folk music for KALW, A Patchwork Quilt, in October 1991. He grew up in Berkeley during the 1960s and '70s and spent his years learning in public schools, community colleges, bookstores, libraries, and non-commercial radio stations, as well as from the people around him. When he's not on the radio, then he's selling books, taking care of his family, listening to music, entering stuff into a computer, or taking a class.