Today Monday, 16th of October of 2017 is the 289th day of the year...
There are 76 days remaining until the end of the year
386 days until mid-term congressional elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018 (1 year and 21 days from today)
1114 days until presidential elections on Tuesday November 3, 2020
(3 years and 18 days from today)
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 7:20 am
and the sun will set at 6:29 pm.
Today we will have 11 hours and 9 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 12:54 pm.
the first low tide was at 3:23 am
and the next low tide will be at 3:59 pm.
The first high tide will be at 10:15 am
and the next high tide at 10:08 pm.
The Moon is 11.4% illuminated; a Waning Crescent
Moon Direction: ↑ 90.75° E
Moon Altitude :13.27°
Moon Distance: 237591 mi
Next New Moon: Thursday October 19, 2017 at 12:12 pm
Next Full Moon : Friday November 3, 2017 at 10:22 pm
Next Moonset: Today at 5:13 pm
Today is...
Also known as National Feral Cat Day
International Adjust your Chair Day
Multicultural Diversity Day
National Boss Day
National Clean Your Virtual Desktop Day
National Cut Up Your Credit Card Day
National Department Store Day
National Dictionary Day
National Learn a Word Day
National Liqueur Day
Steve Jobs Day
World Spine Day
It's also...
Day of Pope John Paul II (Poland)
Death anniversary of Liaquat Ali Khan (Pakistan)
World Anaesthesia Day (International)
World Food Day (International)
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! Your share this day with…
1758 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer (d. 1843)
1854 – Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1938)
1854 – Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and poet (d. 1900)
1886 – David Ben-Gurion, Polish-Israeli soldier and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
1888 – Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
1903 – Cecile de Brunhoff, French author and pianist (d. 2003)
1903 – Big Joe Williams, American Delta blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1982)
1908 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian general and politician, Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1985)
1925 – Angela Lansbury, English-American actress, singer, and producer
1927 – Günter Grass, German novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
1947 – Bob Weir, American singer-songwriter, and guitarist
On this day in history…
1793 – Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
1875 – Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
1882 – The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
1909 – William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold a summit, a first between a U.S. and a Mexican president, and they only narrowly escape assassination.
1916 – In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
1934 – Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
1950 – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis is published, starting The Chronicles of Narnia series.
1968 – Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1973 – Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1978 – Karol Wojtyla is elected Pope John Paul II after the October 1978 Papal conclave, the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
1978 – Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest
1984 – Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1995 – The Million Man March takes place in Washington, D.C.
1998 – Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.