Today is Friday, the 23rd of May of 2025,
May 23 is the 143rd day of the year
222 days remain until the end of the year
28 days until summer begins
Sunrise at 5:53:30 am
and sunset will be at 8:20:38 pm.
Today we will have 14 hours and 27 minutes of daylight
Water temperature in Aquatic Park today is 61.3°F.
The solar transit will be at 1:07:04 pm.
The first low tide was at 2:26 am at 0.56 feet
The first high tide will be at 8:30 am at 4.31 feet
The next low tide will be at 1:56 pm at 1.19 feet
and the final high tide at Ocean Beach tonight will be at 8:26 pm at 6.2 feet
The Moon is currently 18.5% visible
It’s a Waning Crescent
We’ll have a New Moon in 4 days Monday the 26th of May of 2025 at 8:02 pm
Today is….
International Day to End Obstetric Fistula
Today is also….
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your special day with…..
1875 – Alfred P. Sloan, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1966)
1883 – Douglas Fairbanks, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1939)
1891 – Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
1910 – Margaret Wise Brown, American author and educator (d. 1952)
1910 – Scatman Crothers, American actor and comedian (d. 1986)
1910 – Artie Shaw, American clarinet player, composer, and bandleader (d. 2004)
1923 – Alicia de Larrocha, Catalan-Spanish pianist (d. 2009)
1926 – Joe Slovo, Lithuanian-South African activist and politician (d. 1995)
1928 – Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (d. 2002)
1931 – Barbara Barrie, American actress
1933 – Joan Collins, English actress
1934 – Robert Moog, electronic engineer and inventor of the Moog synthesizer (d. 2005)
1950 – Martin McGuinness, Irish republican and Sinn Féin politician, Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 2017)
1951 – Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player
1955 – Luka Bloom, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1958 – Mitch Albom, American journalist, author, and screenwriter
1958 – Drew Carey, American actor, game show host, and entrepreneur
1974 – Jewel, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actress, and poet
….and on this day in history….
1844 – Báb: A merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement. He is considered to be a forerunner of the Baháʼí Faith.
1873 – The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.[2]
1911 – The New York Public Library is dedicated.
1934 – American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
1995 – The first version of the Java programming language is released.
1998 – The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with roughly 75% voting yes.
2002 – The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto Protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.
