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KALW Almanac - Monday December 29, 2025

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Today is Monday, the 29th of December of 2025

December 29 is the 363rd day of the year

two days remain until the end of the year

80 days until spring begins

The fourth day of Kwanzaa

Today's principle is Ujamaa; in english, Cooperative economics

Today is also The fifth day of Christmas

You're supposed to give your True Love 5 Gold Rings, 4 Colly birds, and so on....

Sunrise at 7:24:46 am

and sunset will be at 5:00:17 pm.

We will have 9 hours and 35 minutes of daylight

The solar transit will be at 12:12:31 pm

Water temperature in San Francisco Bay today is 52.5°F.

The first high was at 5:28 am at 6.26 feet

The first low tide will be at 12:42 pm at 0.4 feet

The next high tide at 7:15 pm at 4 feet

And The final low tide will be at 11:49 pm at 2.48 feet

The Moon is currently 69.4% visible

It's a Waxing Gibbous moon

We'll have a Full Moon in 5 days on Saturday the 3rd of January of 2026 at 2:03 am

Today is....

National "Get on the Scales" Day

National Pepper Pot Day

Still Need to Do Day

Tick Tock Day

Today is also....

Constitution Day in Ireland

Independence Day in Mongolia

If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share boxing gloves with....

1721 – Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV (died 1764)

1800 – Charles Goodyear, American chemist and engineer (died 1860)

1876 – Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (died 1973)

1914 – Billy Tipton, American pianist and saxophonist (died 1989)

1917 – Tom Bradley, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 38th Mayor of Los Angeles (died 1998)

1923 – Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian, anthropologist, and physicist (died 1986)

1934 – Ed Flanders, American actor (died 1995)

1936 – Mary Tyler Moore, American actress and producer (died 2017)

1938 – Jon Voight, American actor and producer

1943 – Rick Danko, Canadian singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (died 1999)

1946 – Marianne Faithfull, English singer-songwriter and actress (died 2025)

1947 – Ted Danson, American actor and producer

1959 – Paula Poundstone, American comedian and

1972 – Jude Law, English actor

...and on this day in history...

1937 – The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.

1989 – Czech writer, philosopher and dissident Václav Havel is elected the first post-communist President of Czechoslovakia.

Kevin Vance created a program of folk music for KALW, A Patchwork Quilt, in October 1991. He grew up in Berkeley during the 1960s and '70s and spent his years learning in public schools, community colleges, bookstores, libraries, and non-commercial radio stations, as well as from the people around him. When he's not on the radio, then he's selling books, taking care of his family, listening to music, entering stuff into a computer, or taking a class.