Today Thursday, the 14th of September of 2017, is the 257th day of the year.
There are 108 days remaining until the end of the year.
418 days until mid-term elections Tuesday November 6, 2018
1 year 1 month and 23 days from today
1146 days until presidential elections on Tuesday November 3, 2020
3 years 1 month and 20 days from today
The sun will rise at 6:52 am
and the sun will set at 7:18 pm
Today we will have 12 hours and 26 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 1:05 pm.
The first low tide was at 12:56am
and the next low tide will be at 12:59 pm.
The first high tide will be at 8:16 am
and the next high tide at 7:09 pm.
Moon: 36.0%
Waning Crescent
Moon Direction: ↑ 102.94° ESE
Moon Altitude: 46.91°
Moon Distance: 229932 mi
Next New Moon: Sep 19, 2017 at 10:29 pm
Next Full Moon: Oct 5, 2017 at 11:40 am
Next Moonset: Today at 3:36 pm
Today is…
Eat a Hoagie Day
National Coloring Day
National Cream-Filled Donut Day
National Live Creative Day
The Exaltation of the Holy Cross
It's also...
Hindi Divas for Hindi-speakers
Mobilized Servicemen Day in Ukraine
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you! You share this day with..
1879 – Margaret Sanger, American nurse and activist (d. 1966)
1886 – Jan Masaryk, Czech soldier and politician, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1948)
1936 – Walter Koenig, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1942 – Oliver Lake, American saxophonist, flute player, and composer
1949 – Fred "Sonic" Smith, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 1994)
1955 – William Jackson, Scottish harp player and composer
1958 – Beth Nielsen Chapman, American singer-songwriter
1965 – Dmitry Medvedev, Russian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Russia
1983 – Amy Winehouse, English singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
On this day in history…
1741 – George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.
1814 – Battle of Baltimore: The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key. The poem is later used as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner.
1959 – The Soviet space probe Luna 2 became the first man-made object to reach the moon as it crashed onto the lunar surface.
2000 – Microsoft releases Windows ME.