Today is Monday, 9th of December of 2024,
December 9 is the 344th day of the year
22 days remain until the end of the year.
12 days until the Winter Solstice
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 7:14:12 am
and sunset will be at 4:51:02 pm.
We will have 9 hours and 36 minutes of daylight
The solar transit will be at 12:02:37 pm.
Water temperature in Aquatic Park today is 54.9°F
The first high tide was at 5:24 am at 5.65 feet
The first low tide will be at 11:51 am at 1.71 feet
The next high tide at 5:24 pm at 4.26 feet
and the final low tide at Ocean Beach 11:18 pm at 1.07 feet
The Moon is currently 60.2% visible
We’ll have a Full Moon in 6 days on Sunday the 15th of December of 2024 at 1:02 am
Today is….
Today is also….
Anna's Day, marks the day to start the preparation process of the lutefisk to be consumed on Christmas Eve, as well as a Swedish name day, celebrating all people named Anna. (Sweden and Finland)
Fatherland's Heroes Day (Russia)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Tanganyika from Britain in 1961. (Tanzania)
International Anti-Corruption Day (United Nations)
National Heroes Day, formerly V.C. Bird Day. (Antigua and Barbuda)
IF today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your special day with….
1895 – Dolores Ibárruri, Spanish activist, journalist and politician (d. 1989)
1897 – Hermione Gingold, English actress and singer (d. 1987)
1898 – Emmett Kelly, American clown and actor (d. 1979)
1899 – Jean de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator (d. 1937)
1902 – Margaret Hamilton, American schoolteacher, actress and voice artist (d. 1985)
1905 – Dalton Trumbo, American author, screenwriter, and blacklistee (d. 1976)
1906 – Grace Hopper, American admiral and computer scientist, designed COBOL (d. 1992)
1909 – Douglas Fairbanks Jr., American captain, actor, and producer (d. 2000)
1912 – Tip O'Neill, American lawyer and politician, 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1994)
1915 – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-Austrian soprano and actress (d. 2006)
1916 – Kirk Douglas, American actor, singer, and producer (d. 2020)
1922 – Redd Foxx, American actor (d. 1991)
1928 – Dick Van Patten, American actor (d. 2015)
1929 – John Cassavetes, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1989)
1929 – Bob Hawke, Australian union leader and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2019)
1930 – Buck Henry, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2020)
1932 – Donald Byrd, American trumpet player and academic (d. 2013)
1933 – Ashleigh Brilliant, English-American author and illustrator
1933 – Morton Downey Jr., American actor and talk show host (d. 2001)
1934 – Judi Dench, English actress
1940 – Clancy Eccles, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2005)
1941 – Beau Bridges, American actor, director, and producer
1941 – Dan Hicks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2016)
1942 – Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1997)
1942 – Dick Butkus, American football player, sportscaster, and actor (d. 2023)
1943 – Kenny Vance, American singer-songwriter and music producer
1944 – Neil Innes, English singer-songwriter (d. 2019)
1946 – Sonia Gandhi, Italian-Indian politician
1947 – Tom Daschle, American soldier, academic, and politician
1950 – Joan Armatrading, Kittian-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1952 – Michael Dorn, American actor and voice artist
1953 – John Malkovich, American actor and producer
1957 – Donny Osmond, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
1966 – Kirsten Gillibrand, American lawyer and politician
1967 – Joshua Bell, American violinist and conductor
1969 – Jakob Dylan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1973 – Stacey Abrams, American politician and activist
On this day in history….
1531 – The Virgin of Guadalupe first appears to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, Mexico City.
1822 – French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a memoir read to the Academy of Sciences, coins the terms linear polarization, circular polarization, and elliptical polarization, and reports a direct refraction experiment verifying his theory that optical rotation is a form of birefringence
1851 – The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal.
1868 – The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
1872 – In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first African American governor of a U.S. state following the impeachment of Henry C. Warmoth.
1905 – In France, a law separating church and state is passed.
1948 – The Genocide Convention is adopted.
1960 – The first episode of Coronation Street, the world's longest-running television soap opera, is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
1965 – Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; with witnesses reporting something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh.
1968 – Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).
1979 – The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first of only two diseases that have been driven to extinction (with rinderpest in 2011 being the other).
2017 – The Marriage Amendment Bill receives royal assent and comes into effect, making Australia the 26th country to legalize same-sex marriage.
