Today Monday, 6th of November of 2017 is the 310th day of the year...
There are 55 days remaining until the end of the year.
365 days until mid-term congressional elections Tuesday November 6, 2018 (11 months and 31 days from today)
1093 days until presidential electionsTuesday November 3, 2020
(2 years 11 months and 28 days from today)
The sun will rise this morning at 6:42 am
and sunset will be at 5:05 pm.
Today we will have 10 hours and 23 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 11:53 am....
The first high tide was at 1:11 am
and the next high tide will be at 12:16 pm.
The first low tide will be at 6:01 am
and the next low tide at 6:54 pm.
Moon: 92.2%
Waning Gibbous
Moon Direction:↑ 251.60° WSW
Moon Altitude:49.82°
Moon Distance:224721 mi
Next New Moon:Nov 18, 20173:42 am
Next Full Moon:Dec 3, 20177:46 am
Next Moonset:Today9:19 am
Today is…
Basketball Day
International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
Job Action Day
Marooned Without a Compass Day
National Nachos Day
National Saxophone Day
It’s also…
Arbor Day in Republic of Congo
Constitution Day in the Dominican Republic
Constitution Day in Tajikistan
Finnish Swedish Heritage Day, a flag day
Gustavus Adolphus Day, death of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and official flag day
International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with...
1814 – Adolphe Sax, Belgian-French instrument designer, invented the saxophone (d. 1894)
1841 – Nelson W. Aldrich, American businessman and politician (d. 1915)
1854 – John Philip Sousa, American commander, composer, and conductor (d. 1932)
1916 – Ray Conniff, American composer and conductor (d. 2002)
1926 – Zig Ziglar, American soldier, businessman, and author (d. 2012)
1939 – Michael Schwerner, American activist (d. 1964)
1941 – Guy Clark, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2016)
1941 – Doug Sahm, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1999)
1946 – Sally Field, American actress
1948 – Sidney Blumenthal, American journalist and activist
1948 – Glenn Frey, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 2016)
1949 – Arturo Sandoval, Cuban trumpet player, pianist, and composer
1955 – Maria Shriver, American journalist and author
1970 – Ethan Hawke, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1976 – Pat Tillman, American football player and soldier (d. 2004)
1988 – Emma Stone, American actress
On this day in history…
1528 – Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in the area that would become Texas
1844 – The first Constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted
1860 – Abraham Lincoln is elected as the 16th President of United States
1869 – In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6–4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.
1913 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1934 – Memphis, Tennessee becomes the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority.
1935 – Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers
1947 – Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut.
1962 – The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa's apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.
1971 – The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians
2012 – Barack Obama is reelected President of the United States; Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.