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Almanac - Monday 11/27/17

Gini Dietrich Serves Geoff Pie in the Face, by flickr user Geoff Livingston

Today Monday, the 27th of November of 2017 is the 331st day of the year.

There are 34 days remaining until the end of the year.

24 days until winter begins...

344 days until mid-term elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018

(1 months and 10 days from today)

1072 days until presidential elections on Tuesday November 3, 2020

(2 years 11 months and 7 days from today)

The sun rises at 7:04 am 

and the sun will set at 4:52 pm.

Today we will have 9 hours and 48 minutes of daylight.

The solar transit will be at 11:58 am.

the first high tide will be at 6:30am

and the next high tide at 6:00 pm.

The only low tide of the day will be at 12:35 pm.

The Moon is currently 58.6% illuminated; a Waxing Gibbous moon

Moon Direction: ↑ 316.90° NW

Moon Altitude:  -53.32°

Moon Distance: 241651 mi

Next Full Moon: Sunday December 3, 2017 at 7:46 am

Next New Moon: Sunday December 17, 2017 at 10:30 pm

Next Moonrise: Today 1:28 pm

Today is...

Cyber Monday

National Bavarian Cream Pie Day

National Craft Jerky Day

National Electric Guitar Day

National Pins And Needles Day

Pie in the Face Day

Turtle Adoption Day

It is also...

Maaveerar Day (Tamil EelamSri Lanka)

Naval Infantry Day (Russia)

Teacher's Day (Spain)

Lancashire Day (United Kingdom)

If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with...

1701      Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer and inventor of the Celsius thermometer scale

1909      James Agee, American writer

1921      Alexander Dubcek, Czech communist leader; initiated reforms put down by Soviets in 1968

1932      Benigno Aquino Jr.,Phillipine opposition leader under Pres. Ferdinand Marcos

1942      Jimi Hendrix, American rock guitarist

On this day in history...

1582 Shakespeare Gets a License to Marry Ane Hathaway

1910      New York's Pennsylvania Station opened.

1945 C.A.R.E.founded

1963 Basketball Player Wilt Chamerlain score 18 Baskets in a row

1973     The Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who'd resigned.

1978    San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by Dan White, a former supervisor.

1985      The British House of Commons approved the Anglo-Irish accord, giving Dublin a consultative role in the governing of British-ruled Northern Ireland.

2008      Iraq's parliament approved a pact requiring all U.S. troops to be out of the country by Jan. 1, 2012.