Today is the birthday of the great Zimbabwean singer-songwriter and guitarist, Oliver Mtukudzi,
Today is Monday, the 22nd of September of 2025
September 22 is the 265th day of the year
100 days remain until the end of the year.
Today is the First Day of Fall, as of 11:19 am this morning
Sunrise was at 6:58:09 am
and sunset will be at 7:05:00 pm.
At sundown, Tonight will be the beginning of
Rosh Hashanah, the New Year in Judaism
Happy 5786
Rosh Hashana goes from tonight Monday September 22 to Wednesday, September 24, 2025
We will have 12 hours and 6 minutes of daylight
The solar transit will be at 1:01:34 pm
Water temperature in San Francisco Bay today is 67.8°F
The first low tide will be at 5:30 am at 0.95 feet
The first high tide will be at 11:52 am at 5.7 feet
The next low tide at 6:01 pm at 0.92 feet
And the final high tide at Ocean Beach in the next 24 hours will be early tomorrow morning at 12:10 pm at 5.18 feet
The Moon is currently 0.6% visible
It's was a New Moon yesterday
It's now a Waxing Crescent
We'll have the First Quarter Moon in 7 days next Monday the 29th of September of 2025 at 4:54 pm
Today is....
American Business Women's Day
Chainmail Day
Dear Diary Day
Family Day
Hobbit Day
International Day of Radiant Peace
National Centenarian's Day
National Eat Local Day
National Elephant Appreciation Day
National Falls Prevention Awareness Day
National Girls' Night In Day
National Ice Cream Cone Day
National Legwear Day
National Online Recovery Day
National States and Capitals Day
National White Chocolate Day
Proposal Day!
The First Day of Fall
World Carfree Day
World Rhino Day
Today is also...
Baltic Unity Day (Lithuania, Latvia)
Earliest date for the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the vernal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere:
Autumnal Equinox Day (Japan)
Mabon in the Northern Hemisphere, Ostara in the Southern Hemisphere. (Neopagan Wheel of the Year)
The first day of Miķeļi (Latvia)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire in 1908.
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Mali from France in 1960.
Resistance Fighting Day (Estonia)
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your special day with....
1791 – Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist (died 1867)
1885 – Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1957)
1895 – Paul Muni, Ukrainian-born American actor (died 1967)
1897 – Frank O'Connor, American actor, rancher, and painter (died 1979)
1899 – Elsie Allen, Native American Pomo basket weaver (died 1990)
1902 – John Houseman, Romanian-American actor and producer (died 1988)
1912 – Martha Scott, American actress (died 2003)
1927 – Tommy Lasorda, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2021)
1931 – Fay Weldon, English author and playwright (died 2023)
1941 – Jeremiah Wright, American pastor and theologian
1943 – Toni Basil, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
1946 – King Sunny Adé, Nigerian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1947 – Norma McCorvey, American activist (died 2017)
1948 – Mark Phillips, English equestrian, trainer, and journalist
1952 – Oliver Mtukudzi, Zimbabwean Afro-Jazz and 'tuku' singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sarawoga; Tolerance; Tuku Music), born in Highfield, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) (d. 2019)
1956 – David Krakauer, American Grammy Award-winning klezmer, jazz and classical clarinetist (Klezmer Madness!), born in New York City
1956 – Debby Boone, American singer, actress, and author
1958 – Neil Cavuto, American journalist and author
1958 – Joan Jett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress
1959 – Saul Perlmutter, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate
1960 – Scott Baio, American actor
1976 – David Berkeley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
....and on this day in history....
1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
1862 – A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released by Abraham Lincoln.
1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history (later surpassed by her great-great-granddaughter Elizabeth II on 9 September 2015).
1919 – The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
1948 – Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.
1976 – Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs.
1979 – A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined.
1991 – The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time.
