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Almanac - Monday 12/18/17

Follow stuck on you, taken by flickr user DurhamDundee

Today Monday, 18th of December of 2017 is the 352nd day of the year.

There are 13 days remaining until the end of the year.

3 days until winter begins

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

(10 months and 19 days from today)

1051 days until presidential elections on Tuesday November 3, 2020

(2 years 10 months and 16 days from today)

The sun will rise in San Francisco at 7:20 am 

and sunset will be at 4:54 pm.

Today we will have 9 hours and 34 minutes of daylight.

Solar noon will be at 12:07 pm.

The first high tide was at 12:17 am 

and the next high tide will be at 10:49 am.

The first low tide was at 4:50 am 

and the next low tide will be at 5:38 pm.

We just had a new moon yesterday

Moon: 0.1%

Near New Moon (Waxing Crescent)

Moon Direction: 95.21° E

Moon Altitude:-27.32°

Moon Distance: 252598 mi

Next Full Moon: New Year’s Day, Monday January 1, 2018 at 6:24 pm

Next New Moon: Jan 16, 2018 at 6:17 pm

Next Moonrise: Today at 7:29 am

Today is…

Answer the Phone Like Buddy the Elf Day

Arabic Language Day

Bake Cookies Day

Flake Appreciation Day

International Migrants Day

National Ham Salad Day

National Roast Suckling Pig Day

National Wear a Plunger on Your Head Day

Today is also…

International Migrants Day

National Day (Qatar)

Republic Day (Niger)

UN Arabic Language Day (United Nations)

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

1878 – Joseph Stalin, Georgian-Russian marshal and politician, 4th Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1953)

1879 – Paul Klee, Swiss-German painter and educator (d. 1940)

1886 – Ty Cobb, American baseball player and manager (d. 1961)

1888 – Robert Moses, American urban planner (d. 1981)

1890 – Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio (d. 1954)

1897 – Fletcher Henderson, American pianist and composer (d. 1952)

1912 – Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American general and pilot (d. 2002)

1913 – Willy Brandt, German politician, 4th Chancellor of GermanyNobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)

1916 – Betty Grable, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1973)

1917 – Ossie Davis, American actor and activist (d. 2005)

1924 – Cicely Tyson, American actress

1927 – Ramsey Clark, American lawyer and politician, 66th United States Attorney General

1935 – Jacques Pépin, French-American chef and author

1943 – Keith Richards, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer

1946 – Steve Biko, South African activist, founded the Black Consciousness Movement (d. 1977)

1946 – Steven Spielberg, American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded DreamWorks

1963 – Brad Pitt, American actor and producer

1970 – DMX, American rapper and actor

1980 – Christina Aguilera, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

And on this day in history…

218 BC – Second Punic WarBattle of the Trebia – Hannibal's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Roman Republic.

1777 – The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the American rebels over British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga in October.

1787 – New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

1865 – US Secretary of State William Seward proclaims the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery throughout the USA.

1932 – The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans in the first NFL Championship Game.

1958 – Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.

2002 – California gubernatorial recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.

2006 – United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections.

2015 – Kellingley Colliery, the last deep coal mine in Great Britain, closes.