Today is Wednesday, the 24th of June of 2026,
June 24 is the 175th day of the year
190 days remain until the end of the year
90 days until autumn begins
The sun rose this morning at 5:48:59 am
and sunset will be this evening at 8:35:55 pm.
We will have 14 hours and 46 minutes of daylight
The solar transit will be at 1:12:27 pm
Water temperature in San Francisco Bay today is 64.2°F.
The first low tide was at 2:12 am at 0.54 feet
The first high tide will be at 8:37 am at 3.83 feet
The next low tide at 1:15 pm at 2.43 feet
and the final high tide at Ocean Beach this evening will be at 7:38 pm at 6.06 feet
The Moon is currently 74.9% visible
It's a Waxing Gibbous moon
We'll have a Full Moon in 5 days on Monday the 29th of June of 2026 at 4:57 pm
Today is....
Celebration of the Senses
International Fairy Day
Museum Comes To Life Day
National Parchment Day
National Pralines Day
Swim a Lap Day
World UFO Day
National Patch Day
Take Back The Lunch Break Day
Today is also....
Army Day or Battle of Carabobo Day in Venezuela
Bannockburn Day in Scotland
Day of the Caboclo in Amazonas, Brazil
Inti Raymi, a winter solstice festival and a New Year in the Andes of the Southern Hemisphere in Sacsayhuamán, Peru
St John's Day and the second day of the Midsummer celebrations in the Roman Catholic Church in Europe
Fors Fortuna, the ancient Roman festival
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your special day with....
1788 – Thomas Blanchard, American inventor of the assembly line and interchangable parts (died 1864)
1842 – Ambrose Bierce, American short story writer, essayist, and journalist (died 1914)
1893 – Roy O. Disney, American businessman, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (died 1971)
1895 – Jack Dempsey, American boxer and soldier (died 1983)
1901 – Harry Partch, American composer and theorist (died 1974)
1935 – Terry Riley, American composer and educator
1936 – Robert Downey Sr., American actor and director (died 2021)
1937 – Anita Desai, Indian-American author and academic
1938 – Lawrence Block, American author
1945 – George Pataki, American lawyer and politician, 53rd Governor of New York
1946 – Robert Reich, American economist and politician, 22nd United States Secretary of Labor
1947 – Mick Fleetwood, English-American drummer
1961 – Ralph E. Reed, Jr., American journalist and activist
1962 – Claudia Sheinbaum, president of Mexico
1979 – Mindy Kaling, American actress and producer
1986 – Solange Knowles, American singer-songwriter and actress
1987 – Lionel Messi, Argentinian footballer
....and on this day in history....
109 – Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, 40 kilometres (25 miles) northwest of Rome.
1374 – A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
1880 – First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. The song would later become the national anthem of Canada.
1916 – Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
1922 – The American Professional Football Association is renamed the National Football League.
1938 – Pieces of a meteorite land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. The meteorite is estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded.
1939 – Siam is renamed Thailand by Plaek Phibunsongkhram, the country's third prime minister.
1947 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
1948 – Cold War: Start of the Berlin Blockade: The Soviet Union makes overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin impossible.
1949 – The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, starring William Boyd, is aired on NBC.
1957 – In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
1995 – Rugby World Cup: South Africa defeats New Zealand and Nelson Mandela presents Francois Pienaar with the Webb Ellis Cup in an iconic post-apartheid moment.
2004 – In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
2010 – At Wimbledon, John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France, in the longest match in professional tennis history.
2010 – Julia Gillard assumes office as the first female Prime Minister of Australia.
2012 – Death of Lonesome George, the last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise.
2013 – Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is found guilty of abusing his power and engaging in sex with an underage prostitute, and is sentenced to seven years in prison.
2022 – In Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the U.S. Constitution does not assign the authority to regulate abortions to the federal government, thereby returning such authority to the individual states. This overturns the prior decisions in Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992).
2023 – The Wagner Group led by Yevgeny Prigozhin launches an insurrection against the Russian government.
