Today is Thursday, the 14th of November of 2024,
November 14 is the 319th day of the year
47 days remain until the end of the year.
37 days until winter begins
Sunrise at 6:49:56 am
and sunset will be at 4:58:11 pm.
Today we will have 10 hours and 8 minutes of daylight
The solar transit will be at 11:54:03 am.
The first low tide was at 2:24 am at 1.61 feet
The first high tide will be at 8:37 am at 6.83 feet
The next low tide will be at 3:29 pm at -0.89 feet
and the final high tide at 10:09 pm at 5.12 feet
The Moon is currently 97.3% visible
We’ll have the Full Moon tomorrow Friday the 15th of November of 2024 at 1:29 pm
The November full moon is called the Full Beaver Moon
This was the time when beavers finished preparations for winter and retreated into their lodges.
It’s also called the….
• Deer Rutting Moon (Dakota, Lakota)
• Digging/Scratching Moon (Tlingit)
• Freezing Moon (Anishinaabe)
• Frost Moon (Cree, Assiniboine)
• Whitefish Moon (Algonquin)
Today is….
National American Teddy Bear Day
Spirit of National Speakers Association Day
Today is also….
Anniversary of the Movement of Readjustment (Guinea-Bissau)
Children's Day, celebrated on the birthday of Jawaharlal Nehru (previously on November 20). (India)
Day of the Colombian Woman (Colombia)
Mobile Brigade Day (Indonesia)
World Diabetes Day (International)
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your special day with….
1719 – Leopold Mozart, Austrian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1787)
1805 – Fanny Mendelssohn, German pianist and composer (d. 1847)
1840 – Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)
1889 – Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of India (d. 1964)
1900 – Aaron Copland, American composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1990)
1907 – William Steig, American author, illustrator, and sculptor (d. 2003)
1908 – Joseph McCarthy, American captain, lawyer, and politician (d. 1957)
1916 – Sherwood Schwartz, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2011)
1917 – Park Chung Hee, South Korean general and politician, 3rd President of South Korea (d. 1979)
1921 – Brian Keith, American actor and director (d. 1997)
1922 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian politician and diplomat, 6th Secretary General of the United Nations (d. 2016)
1922 – Veronica Lake, American actress and singer (d. 1973)
1927 – McLean Stevenson, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1927 – Narciso Yepes, Spanish guitarist and composer (d. 1997)
1934 – Ellis Marsalis, Jr., American pianist and educator (d. 2020)
1935 – Hussein of Jordan (d. 1999)
1939 – Wendy Carlos, American keyboard player and composer
1943 – Peter Norton, American programmer and author
1947 – P. J. O'Rourke, American political satirist and journalist (d. 2022)
1947 – Buckwheat Zydeco, American accordion player (d. 2016)
1948 – Charles III, King of the United Kingdom
1952 – Johnny A., American guitarist and songwriter
1954 – Condoleezza Rice, American political scientist, academic, and politician, 66th United States Secretary of State
1954 – Yanni, Greek-American pianist, composer, and producer
1962 – Laura San Giacomo, American actress
1981 – Vanessa Bayer, American actress
….and on this day in history…..
332 BC – Alexander the Great is crowned pharaoh of Egypt.[1]
1680 – German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope.
1770 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile.
1851 – Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA.
1889 – Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days.
1922 – The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
1960 – Ruby Bridges becomes the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana.
1995 – A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.
