Today Monday, the 20th of November of 2017 is the 324th day of the year....
There are 41 days remaining until the end of the year.
351 days until mid-term elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018
(11 months and 17 days from today)
1079 days until presidential elections on Tuesday November 3, 2020
(2 years 11 months and 14 days from today)
The sun will rise this morning at 6:56 am
and the sun will set at 4:54 pm.
Today we will have 9 hours and 58 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 11:55 am.
The first high tide was at 1:08 am
and the next high tide will be at 11:46 am.
The first low tide will be at 5:47 am
and the next low tide at 6:31 pm.
The Moon is now 4.0 % illuminated
Moon Direction: ↑ 84.38° E
Moon Altitude: -39.58°
Moon Distance: 251962 mi
Next Full Moon:Saturday December 3, 2017 at 7:46 am
Next New Moon:Sunday December 17, 2017 at 10:30 pm
Next Moonrise: Today at 8:42 am
Today is…
Beautiful Day
Future Teachers of America Day
Globally Organized Hug a Runner Day
Name Your PC Day
National Absurdity Day
National Peanut Butter Fudge Day
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Universal Children's Day
It’s also…
National Sovereignty Day in Argentina
Revolution Day in Mexico
Teachers' Day or Ngày nhà giáo Việt Nam in Vietnam
Transgender Day of Remembrance in the LGBTQ and allies community
Wedding day of Elizabeth II in the United Kingdom
If today is your birthday, Happy birthday to you! You share this day with…
1900 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist and author, created Dick Tracy (d. 1985)
1908 – Alistair Cooke, British-born American journalist and author (d. 2004)
1917 – Robert Byrd, American lawyer and politician (d. 2010)
1921 – Jim Garrison, American lawyer and judge (d. 1992)
1923 – Nadine Gordimer, South African novelist, short story writer, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
1925 – Kaye Ballard, American actress and singer
1925 – Robert F. Kennedy, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 64th United States Attorney General (d. 1968)
1932 – Richard Dawson, English-American actor and game show host (d. 2012)
1936 – Don DeLillo, American novelist, essayist, and playwright
1939 – Dick Smothers, American actor and comedian
1942 – Joe Biden, American lawyer and politician, 47th Vice President of the United States
1942 – Meredith Monk, American composer and choreographer
1946 – Duane Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1971)
1956 – Bo Derek, American actress and producer
On this day in history…
1789 – New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1805 – Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, premieres in Vienna.
1820 – An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story.)
1945 – Twenty-four Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. | ||
1947 – Britain's future queen, Princess Elizabeth, married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey in London. | ||
| 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation. | ||
1966 – The musical "Cabaret," with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, opened on Broadway. |
1969 – Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.
1969 – Occupation of Alcatraz: Native American activists seize control of Alcatraz Island until being ousted by the U.S. Government on June 11, 1971.
1974 – The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.
1977 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.
1985 – Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
1989 – Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.