Today Thursday, 1st of February of 2018 is the 32nd day of the year.
There are 333 days remaining until the end of the year
278 days until mid-term elections Tuesday November 6, 2018
(9 months and 5 days from today)
1006 days until presidential elections Tuesday November 3, 2020
(2 years 9 months and 2 days from today)
The sun rises at 7:13 am
and sunset will be at 5:35 pm.
We will have 10 hours and 22 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 12:24 pm.
the first high tide will be at 12:28 am
and the next high tide at 11:34 am.
The first low tide will be at 5:24 am
and the next low tide at 6:08 pm.
The Moon is 98.6%; now a Waning Gibbous moon
Moon Direction: ↑ 261.89° W
Moon Altitude: 31.88°
Moon Distance: 225632 mi
Next Moonset: Today at 8:06 am
Last Quarter Moon in 6 days on Wednesday the 7th of February of 2018 at 7:54 am
New Moon in 14 days the Thursday 15th of February of 2018 at 1:05 pm. There will also be a Partial Solar Eclipse on that day.
First Quarter Moon in 22 days Friday the 23th of February of 2018 at 12:09 am
and the next Full Moon in 28 days Thursday the 1st of March of 2018 at 4:51 pm
Today is…
Car Insurance Day
Change Your Password Day
Decorating With Candy Day
G.I. Joe Day
Hula in the Coola Day
National Baked Alaska Day
National Freedom Day
National Serpent Day
Robinson Crusoe Day
Spunky Old Broads Day
It’s also…
Abolition of Slavery Day in Mauritius
Federal Territory Day in Kuala Lumpur, Labuan and Putrajaya, Malaysia
Heroes Day in Rwanda
Imbolc in Ireland, Scotland, Isle of Man, and some Neopagan groups in the Northern hemisphere
Memorial Day of the Republic in Hungary
The start of Black History Month in United States and Canada
The start of LGBT History Month in the United Kingdom
The start of National Bird-Feeding Month
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you! You get to share birthday cake with…
1261 – Walter de Stapledon, English bishop and politician, Lord High Treasurer (d. 1326)
1687 – Johann Adam Birkenstock, German violinist and composer (d. 1733)
1859 – Victor Herbert, Irish-American cellist, composer, and conductor (d. 1924)
1894 – John Ford, American director and producer (d. 1973)
1894 – James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer (d. 1955)
1901 – Clark Gable, American actor (d. 1960)
1902 – Langston Hughes, American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright (d. 1967)
1904 – S.J. Perelman, American humorist and screenwriter (d. 1979)
1918 – Muriel Spark, Scottish playwright and poet (d. 2006)
1928 – Tom Lantos, Hungarian-American academic and politician (d. 2008)
1931 – Boris Yeltsin, Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (d. 2007)
1937 – Don Everly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1937 – Garrett Morris, American actor and comedian
1939 – Fritjof Capra, Austrian physicist, author, and academic
1939 – Joe Sample, American pianist and composer (d. 2014)
1941 – Jerry Spinelli, American author
1947 – Jessica Savitch, American journalist (d. 1983)
1948 – Rick James, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2004)
1951 – Sonny Landreth, American guitarist and songwriter
1956 – Exene Cervenka, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1957 – Gilbert Hernandez, American author and illustrator
1967 – Meg Cabot, American author and screenwriter
1968 – Lisa Marie Presley, American singer-songwriter and actress
1969 – Andrew Breitbart, American journalist, author, and publisher (d. 2012)
1979 – Jason Isbell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
…and on this day in history…
481 – Vandal king Huneric organises a conference between Catholic and Arian bishops at Carthage.
1865 – President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1884 – The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1893 – Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
1896 – La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
1942 – Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of the United States government, begins broadcasting with programs aimed at areas controlled by the Axis powers.
1960 – Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
1964 – The Beatles have their first number one hit in the United States with "I Want to Hold Your Hand".
1968 – Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan is recorded on motion picture film, as well as in an iconic still photograph taken by Eddie Adams.
1968 – The New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad are merged to form Penn Central Transportation.
1979 – Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran after nearly 15 years of exile.
1996 – The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
1998 – Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral.
2009 – The first cabinet of Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (yoh-HAH-nah sih-goor-dahr-DAW-teer) was formed in Iceland, making her the country's first female prime minister and the world's first openly gay head of government.