Today Thursday, the 16th of November of 2017 is the 320th day of the year...
There are 45 days remaining until the end of the year.
355 days until mid-term elections Tuesday November 6, 2018
11 months and 21 days from today
1083 days until presidential elections Tuesday November 3 2020
2 years 11 months and 18 days from today
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:52 am
and sunset will be at 4:57 pm.
Today we will have 10 hours and 5 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 11:54 am.
The first low tide was at 3:17 am
and the next low tide will be at 4:12 pm.
The first high tide will be at 9:47 am
and the next high tide at 10:52 pm.
The Moon is currently 3.7% illuminated; a Waning Crescent moon
Moon Direction:↑ 99.08° E
Moon Altitude:-1.10°
Moon Distance:246702 mi
Next New Moon:Nov 18, 20173:42 am
Next Full Moon:Dec 3, 20177:46 am
Next Moonrise:Today4:59 am
Today is…
Great American Smokeout
Have a Party With Your Bear Day
International Day for Tolerance
International Guinness World Records Day
National Button Day
National Fast Food Day
Nouveau Beaujolais Day
Use Less Stuff Day
World Pancreatic Cancer Day
World Philosophy Day
It’s also…
Day of Declaration of Sovereignty in Estonia
Volks-trauer-tag in Germany
Icelandic Language Day or Dagur íslenskrar tungu
International Day for Tolerance
Statia Day, Sint Eustatius (Caribbean Netherlands)
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
1873 – W. C. Handy, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1958)
1895 – Paul Hindemith, German violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1963)
1907 – Burgess Meredith, American actor, singer, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1997)
1916 – Daws Butler, American voice actor and singer (d. 1988)
1922 – José Saramago, Portuguese novelist (d. 2010)
1930 – Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic. (d. 2013)
1931 – Bob Gibson, American musician (d. 1996)
1953 – Griff Rhys Jones, Welsh comedian, actor, and author
1964 – Diana Krall, Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist
On this day in history…
1849 – A Russian court sentences writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor.
1904 – English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
1920 – Qantas, Australia's national airline, is founded as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited.
1945 – UNESCO is founded.1973 – Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
1973 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
1974 – The Arecibo message is broadcast from the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico. It was aimed at the current location of the globular star cluster Messier 13 some 25,000 light years away. The message will reach empty space by the time it finally arrives since the cluster will have changed position.
1990 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.