Today is Friday, the 10th of October of 2025,
October 10 is the 283rd day of the year
82 days remain until the end of the year.
72 days until winter begins
Sunrise at 7:14:07 am
and sunset will be at 6:37:49 pm.
We will have 11 hours and 23 minutes of daylight
The solar transit will be at 12:55:58 pm.
Water temperature in San Francisco Bay today is 65.3°F.
The first high tide was at 2:15 am at 5 feet
The first low tide will be in a few minutes at 7:04 am at 2.68 feet
The next high tide at 1:07 pm. at 6.73 feet
and the final low tide at Ocean Beach tonight will be at 8:16 pm at -0.76 feet
The Moon is currently 83.6% visible
It's a Waning Gibbous
We'll have Last Quarter Moon in 3 days on Monday the 13th of October of 2025 at 11:13 am
Today is....
Hug a Drummer Day
International Stage Management Day
National Angel Food Cake Day
National Cake Decorating Day
National Handbag Day
National Haunted House Day
National Hug-a-Kevin Day
National Love Your Hair Day
National Metric Day
National SHIFT10 Day
National Tic Tac Day
National Tuxedo Day
National Walk to a Park Day
Powers of Ten Day
Squid and Cuttlefish Day
U.S. Naval Academy Da
Vet Nurse Day
World Egg Day
Today is also....
Arbor Day in Poland
Army Day in Sri Lanka
Capital Liberation Day in Vietnam
Constitution Day in Sint Maarten
Curaçao Day, anniversary of autonomy
Double Ten Day (The National Day of Republic of China), celebrates outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising in 1911 that led to founding of the Republic of China in 1912
Fiji Day, celebrates the independence of Fiji from United Kingdom in 1970
Finnish Literature Day in Finland
Independence Day, commemorates the proclamation of Cuba's independence from Spain and the beginning of the Ten Years' War in 1868.
Party Foundation Day in North Korea
World Day Against the Death Penalty
World Mental Health Day
World Porridge Day
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your special day with....
1780 – John Abercrombie, Scottish physician and philosopher (died 1844)
1813 – Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer and philanthropist (died 1901
1900 – Helen Hayes, American actress (died 1993)
1906 – R. K. Narayan, Indian author (died 2001)
1914 – Ivory Joe Hunter, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1974)
1917 – Thelonious Monk, American pianist and composer (died 1982)
1924 – James Clavell, Australian-American director, producer, screenwriter, and author (died 1994)
1924 – Ed Wood, American actor, director, producer, screenwriter (died 1978)
1930 – Harold Pinter, English playwright, screenwriter, director Nobel Prize laureate (died 2008)
1930 – Adlai Stevenson III, American lawyer and politician (died 2021)
1941 – Peter Coyote, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1946 – John Prine, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2020)
1948 – Cyril Neville, American R&B percussionist and singer
1949 – Jessica Harper, American actress
1950 – Nora Roberts, American author
1954 – David Lee Roth, American singer-songwriter and producer
1958 – Tanya Tucker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1963 – Daniel Pearl, American-Israeli journalist (died 2002)
1967 – Gavin Newsom, American businessman and politician, 40th and current Governor of California
1971 – Evgeny Kissin, Russian pianist
Clare Hollingworth OBE (10 October 1911 – 10 January 2017) was an English journalist and author. She was the first war correspondent to report the outbreak of World War II, described as "the scoop of the century". As a rookie reporter for The Daily Telegraph in 1939, while travelling from Poland to Germany, she spotted and reported German forces massed on the Polish border; The Daily Telegraph headline read: "1,000 tanks massed on Polish border"; three days later she was the first to report the German invasion of Poland.
....and on this day in history....
1492 – The crew of Christopher Columbus's ship, the Santa Maria, attempt a mutiny.
1760 – In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname – descended from escaped slaves – gain territorial autonomy.
1846 – Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, is discovered by English astronomer William Lassell.
1903 – The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.
1957 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to Ghanaian finance minister Komla Agbeli Gbedemah after he is refused service in a Delaware
1963 – The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty comes into effect.
1964 – The Tokyo Summer Olympics opening ceremony is the first to be relayed live by satellites.
1967 – The Outer Space Treaty comes into force.
1969 – King Crimson releases their debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King.
1973 – U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax.
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which is currently closed down...
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