Today is Wednesday, the 20th of November of 2024
November 20 is the 325th day of the year
41 days remain until the end of the year
31 days until winter begins
Sunrise at 6:56:16 am
and sunset will be at 4:54:33 pm.
We will have 9 hours and 58 minutes of daylight
The solar transit will be at 11:55:24 am.
Water temperature in Aquatic Park San Francisco today is 54.7°F.
The first high tide will be at 3:04 am at 4.96 feet
The first low tide will be at 7:44 am at 3.46 feet
The next high tide at 1:05 pm at 5.76 feet
and the final low tide at Ocean Beach tonight will be at 8:31 pm at -0.4 feet
The Moon will be 74% visible
It’s a Waning Gibbous
We’ll have the Last Quarter Moon in 2 days Friday the 22nd of November of 2024 at 5:28 pm
Today is….
Future Teachers of America Day
Geographic Information Systems Day
Globally Organized Hug a Runner Day
National Educational Support Professionals Day
National Peanut Butter Fudge Day
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Today is also….
National Sovereignty Day ( Argentina)
Day of the Mexican Revolution ( Mexico)
Royal Thai Navy Day ( Thailand)
Teachers' Day or Ngày nhà giáo Việt Nam ( Vietnam)
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your special day with…..
1889 – Edwin Hubble, American astronomer and cosmologist (d. 1953)
1896 – Carl Mayer, Austrian-Jewish screenplay writer (d. 1944)
1900 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist and author, created Dick Tracy (d. 1985)
1908 – Alistair Cooke, British-American journalist and author (d. 2004)
1913 – Charles Berlitz, American linguist (d. 2003)
1921 – Jim Garrison, American lawyer and judge (d. 1992)
1923 – Nadine Gordimer, South African novelist, short story writer, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
1925 – June Christy, American singer (d. 1990)
1925 – Robert F. Kennedy, US Navy officer, lawyer, and politician, 64th United States Attorney General (d. 1968)
1927 – Estelle Parsons, American actress and director
1932 – Richard Dawson, English-American actor and game show host (d. 2012)
1934 – Paco Ibáñez, Spanish singer and musician
1936 – Don DeLillo, American novelist, essayist, and playwright
1939 – Dick Smothers, American actor and comedian
1941 – Dr. John, American singer and songwriter (d. 2019)[26]
1942 – Joe Biden, American politician, 46th President of the United States
1942 – Meredith Monk, American composer and choreographer
1943 – Suze Rotolo, American artist (d. 2011)
1946 – Duane Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1971)
1947 – Joe Walsh, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
1948 – John R. Bolton, American lawyer and diplomat, 25th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
1956 – Bo Derek, American actress and producer
1965 – Mike D, American rapper and drummer
And on this day in history….
1789 – New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1805 – Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, premieres in Vienna.
1820 – An 80-ton sperm whale attacks and sinks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 3,200 kilometres (2,000 mi) from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick was in part inspired by this incident.)
1900 – The French actress Sarah Bernhardt receives the press at the Savoy Hotel in New York at the outset of her first visit since 1896. She talked about her impending tour with a troupe of more than 50 performers and her plans to play the title role in Hamlet.
1959 – The Declaration of the Rights of the Child is adopted by the United Nations.
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
1969 – Occupation of Alcatraz: Native American activists seize control of Alcatraz Island until being ousted by the U.S. Government on June 11, 1971.
1974 – The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.
1977 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.
1985 – Microsoft Windows 1.0, the first graphical personal computer operating environment developed by Microsoft, is released.
1989 – Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia, swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.
1993 – Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
