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Almanac - Monday 12/11/17

Mount Tamalpais taken by flickr user Jose Camões Silva"

Today Monday, the 11th of December of 2017 is the 345th day of the year

There are 20 days remaining until the end of the year. 

10 days until winter begins...

330 days until mid-term elections Tuesday November 6, 2018

(10 months and 26 days from today)

1058 days until the next presidential election on Tuesday November 3, 2020

(2 years 10 months and 23 days from today)

The sun will rise at 7:16 am 

and the sun will set at 4:51 pm.

Today we will have 9 hours and 35 minutes of daylight.

Solar noon will be at 12:03 pm.

The first high tide will be at 6:33am

and the next high tide at 6:39 pm.

The only low tide of the day will be at 12:49 pm.

Moon: 37.4%

Waning Crescent

Moon Direction:  135.08° SE

Moon Altitude: 43.83°

Moon Distance: 241106 mi

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

Next Full Moon: Monday January 1, 2018 at 6:24 pm

Next Moonset: Today at 1:25 pm

Today is…

Green Monday

Holiday Food Drive for Needy Animals Day

International Mountain Day

National App Day

National Noodle Ring Day

It’s also…

Establishment of Kurdish Women’s Union in Iraqi Kurdistan

International Mountain Day

National Tango Day in Argentina

Pampanga Day in Pampanga provincePhilippines

Republic Day, the day when Upper Volta became an autonomous republic in the French Community in 1958. In Burkina Faso

If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you!  You share this special day with…

1803 – Hector Berlioz, French composer, conductor, and critic (d. 1869)

1856 – Georgi Plekhanov, Russian philosopher, theorist, and author (d. 1918)

1882 – Fiorello H. La Guardia, American lawyer and politician, 99th Mayor of New York City (d. 1947)

1908 – Elliott Carter, American composer and academic (d. 2012)

1911 – Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian author, playwright, and screenwriter, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)

1918 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)

1922 – Grace Paley, American short story writer and poet (d. 2007)

1926 – Big Mama Thornton, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)

1931 – Rajneesh, Indian guru, mystic, and educator (d. 1990)

1931 – Rita Moreno, Puerto Rican-American actress, singer, and dancer

1938 – McCoy Tyner, American jazz musician

1939 – Tom Hayden, American activist and politician (d. 2016)

1973 – Mos Def, American rapper

1978 – Roy Wood, Jr., American comedian, actor, and radio host

And on this day in history….

1816 – Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.

1934 – Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the last time.

1941 – World War IIGermany and Italy declare war on the United States, following the Americans' declaration of war on the Empire of Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States, in turn, declares war on them.

1964 – Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.

1968 – The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, featuring the Rolling StonesJethro Tullthe WhoTaj MahalMarianne Faithfull, and the Dirty Mac with Yoko Ono, is filmed in Wembley, London.

1972 – Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and last Apollo mission to land on the Moon.

1997 – The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.

2008 – Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.