Today Monday, 9th of July of 2018 is the 190th day of the year.
There are 175 days remaining until the end of the year.
75 days until autumn begins...
120 days until mid-term elections Tuesday November 6, 2018
(3 months and 28 days from today)
and it’s 848 days until presidential elections Tuesday November 3, 2020
(2 years 3 months and 25 days from today)
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 5:56 am
and sunset will be at 8:34 pm.
Today we will have 14 hours and 38 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 1:15 pm.
The first low tide was at 3:06 am
and the next low tide will be at 2:30 pm.
The first high tide will be at 9:57 am
and the next high tide at 9:01 pm.
A mostly low-medium pollen count this week, mostly in the Threes. Wednesday peaks in the medium range at 4.9.
The Moon is currently 18.1% visible; a Waning Crescent
Moon Direction: ↑ 93.49° E
Moon Altitude: 28.18°
Moon Distance: 229900 mi
Next New Moon: Thursday July7 12, 2018 at 7:47 pm
Next Full Moon: Friday July 27, 2018 at 1:20 pm
Next Moonset: Today at 5:02 pm
Today is…
National Don't Put all your Eggs in One Omelet Day
It’s also…
Constitutionalist Revolution Day in São Paulo
Day of the Employees of the Diplomatic Service in Azerbaijan
Independence Day in South Sudan
Nunavut Day in the far northern Candadia province of Nunavut
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
1764 – Ann Radcliffe, English author and poet (d. 1823)
1916 – Edward Heath, English colonel and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)
1932 – Donald Rumsfeld, American captain and politician, 13th United States Secretary of Defense
1933 – Oliver Sacks, English-American neurologist, author, and academic (d. 2015)
1935 – Mercedes Sosa, Argentinian singer and activist (d. 2009)
1936 – June Jordan, American poet and educator (d. 2002)
1937 – David Hockney, English painter and photographer
1942 – Richard Roundtree, American actor
1945 – Dean Koontz, American author and screenwriter
1947 – Mitch Mitchell, English drummer (d. 2008)
1947 – O. J. Simpson, American football player and actor
1952 – John Tesh, American pianist, composer, and radio and television host
1956 – Tom Hanks, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1964 – Courtney Love, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
1976 – Fred Savage, American actor, director, and producer
On July 9, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington's troops in New York.
1868 – The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law.
1896 – William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
In 1937, a fire at 20th Century Fox's film storage facility in Little Ferry, New Jersey, destroyed most of the studio's silent films.
In 1962, pop artist Andy Warhol's exhibit of 32 paintings of Campbell's soup cans opened at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.
In 1995, Jerry Garcia performed for the final time as frontman of the Grateful Dead during a concert at Chicago's Soldier Field (Garcia died a month later).
Ten years ago, in 2008,
Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, battling a brain tumor, walked into the Senate to cast a dramatic vote in favor of long-stalled Medicare legislation.