Today is Thursday, the 7th of August of 2025,
August 7 is the 219th day of the year
146 days remain until the end of the year.
46 days until autumn begins
Sunrise at 6:19:00 am
and sunset will be at 8:11:01 pm.
We will have 13 hours and 52 minutes of daylight today
The solar transit will be at 1:15:00 pm.
The first low tide was at 4:31 am AT -0.44 feet
The first high tide will be at 11:34 am at 4.79 feet
The next low tide at 4:07 pm at 3.16 feet
and the final high tide at Ocean Beach tonight will be 9:54 pm at 6.48 feet
The Moon is currently 96.1% visible
It's still a Waxing Gibbous
We can call it a Full Moon in 3 days on Saturday the 9th of August of 2025 at 12:55 am
Today is....
Aged Care Employee Day (Australia)
Beach Party Day
Cycle to Work Day (UK)
National IPA Day
National Lighthouse Day
National Sea Serpent Day
Particularly Preposterous Packaging Day
Professional Speakers Day
Purple Heart Day
Raspberries 'n Cream Day
Today is also....
Assyrian Martyrs Day (Assyrian community)
Battle of Boyacá Day (Colombia)
Filseta (Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church)
Emancipation Day (Saint Kitts and Nevis)
Republic Day (Ivory Coast)
Youth Day (Kiribati)
if today is your birthday,
Happy Birthday To You!
You share your special day with....
1876 – Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (died 1917)
1890 – Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, American author and activist (died 1964)
1904 – Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971)
1921 – Manitas de Plata, French guitarist (died 2014)
1926 – Stan Freberg, American puppeteer, voice actor, and singer (died 2015)
1935 – Rahsaan Roland Kirk, American saxophonist and composer (died 1977)
1942 – Garrison Keillor, American humorist, novelist, short story writer, and radio host
1942 – Caetano Veloso, Brazilian singer-songwriter, writer and producer
1942 – B. J. Thomas, American singer (died 2021)
1944 – Robert Mueller, American soldier and lawyer, 6th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
1949 – Walid Jumblatt, Lebanese journalist and politician
1950 – Rodney Crowell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1950 – Alan Keyes, American politician and diplomat, 16th Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
1960 – David Duchovny, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1962 – Alison Brown, American banjo player, songwriter, and producer
1963 – Marcus Roberts, American pianist and educator
1975 – Charlize Theron, South African actress
1978 – Cirroc Lofton, American actor
....and on this day in history....
1909 – Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I)
1962 – Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey is awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide.
1969 – Richard Nixon appoints Luis R. Bruce, a Mohawk-Oglala Sioux and co-founder of the National Congress of American Indians, as the new commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
1970 – California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
1974 – Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) in the air.
1976 – Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars
1978 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently.
1981 – The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
1987 – Cold War: Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union.
2007 – At AT&T Park, Barry Bonds hits his 756th career home run to surpass Hank Aaron's 33-year-old record.
