Today is Monday, the 24th of August of 2026
August 24 is the 236th day of the year
129 days remain until the end of the year.
29 days until autumn begins
Sunrise at 6:33:25 am
and sunset will be at 7:49:26 pm.
We will have 13 hours and 16 minutes of daylight
The solar transit will be at 1:11:25 pm.
Water temperature in San Francisco Bay today is 66.6°F.
the first low tide was at 3:28 am
The first high tide will be at 10:30 am
The next low tide at 3:15 pm.
and the final high tide at Ocean Beach tonight will be at 8:48 pm at 6 feet
The Moon is currenlty87.3% visible
It's a Waxing Gibbous
It will be a Full Moon and a Partial Lunar Eclipse in 3 days Thursday theb 27th of August of 2026 at 9:18 pm
Today is...
Can Opener Day
International Day Against Intolerance, Discrimination and Violence Based on Musical Preferences, Lifestyle and Dress Code
International Strange Music Day
National Knife Day
National Peach Pie Day
National Waffle Day
Pluto Demoted Day
Shooting Star Day
Vesuvius Day
Weather Complaint Day
William Wilberforce Day
Today is also....
Flag Day in Liberia
Independence Day or Den' Nezalezhnosti, celebrates the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union in 1991.
Nostalgia Night in Uruguay
Willka Raymi in Cusco, Peru
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you! You share your special day with....
1899 – Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator (died 1986)
1905 – Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1974)
1922 – René Lévesque, Canadian journalist and politician, 23rd Premier of Quebec (died 1987)
1922 – Howard Zinn, American historian, author, and activist (died 2010
1936 – A. S. Byatt, English novelist and poet (died 2023)
1938 – Mason Williams, American guitarist and composer
1942 – Max Cleland, American captain and politician (died 2021)
1943 – John Cipollina, American rock guitarist (died 1989)
1945 – Ronee Blakley, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1947 – Paulo Coelho, Brazilian author and songwriter
1951 – Orson Scott Card, American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist, and columnist
1951 – Oscar Hijuelos, American author and academic (died 2013)
1952 – Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jamaican dub poet
1955 – Mike Huckabee, American minister and politician, 44th Governor of Arkansas
1960 – Cal Ripken Jr., American baseball player and coach
1962 – Craig Kilborn, American television host
1973 – Dave Chappelle, American comedian, actor, producer and screenwriter
1997 – Karoline Leavitt, White House Press Secretary
....and on this day in history....
1682 – William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
1743 – The War of the Hats: The Swedish army surrenders to the Russians in Helsinki, ending the war and starting Lesser Wrath.
1814 – British troops capture Washington, D.C. and set the Presidential Mansion, Capitol, Navy Yard and many other public buildings ablaze.
1909 – Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
1932 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
1949 – The treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization goes into effect.
1950 – Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
1954 – The Communist Control Act goes into effect, outlawing the Communist Party in the United States.
1967 – Led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the New York Stock Exchange by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease as brokers scramble to grab them.
1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1991 – Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
1995 – Microsoft releases Windows 95 to the public in North America.
1998 – First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
2006 – The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet.
2014 – A magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes the San Francisco Bay Area; it is the largest in that area since 1989.
2016 – Proxima Centauri b, the closest exoplanet to Earth, is discovered by the European Southern Observatory.
