Today Tuesday, 17th of October of 2017 is the 290th day of the year...
There are 75 days remaining until the end of the year.
385 days until mid- term elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018
(1 year and 20 days from today)
1113 days until presidential elections Tuesday November 3, 2020
(3 years and 17 days from today)
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 7:21 am
and the sun will set at 6:27 pm.
Today we will have 11 hours and 6 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 12:54 pm.
The first low tide was at 4:07 am
and the next low tide will be at 4:43 pm.
The first high tide will be at 10:51 am
and the next high tide at 11:01 pm.
The Moon is currently 5.6% illuminated;
A Waning Crescent, A “smiling moon”
Moon Direction: ↑ 86.20° E
Moon Altitude: 0.79°
Moon Distance: 239625 mi
Next New Moon: Thursday October 19, 2017 at 12:12 pm
Which is also Diwali, the Festival of Lights
Next Full Moon: Friday November 3, 2017 at 10:22 pm
Next Moonset: Today at 5:46 pm
Today is…
Black Poetry Day
Four Prunes Day
Information Overload Day
Mulligan Day
National Edge Day
National Face Your Fears Day
National Pasta Day
National Pharmacy Technician Day
Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity
Spreadsheet Day
Wear Something Gaudy Day
World Trauma Day
It’s also…
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you! You share this day with…
1898 – Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese violinist and educator (d. 1998)
1900 – Jean Arthur, American actress (d. 1991)
1902 – Irene Ryan, American actress (d. 1973)
1903 – Nathanael West, American author and screenwriter (d. 1940)
1915 – Arthur Miller, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 2005)
1918 – Rita Hayworth, American actress, singer and dancer (d. 1987)
1920 – Montgomery Clift, American actor (d. 1966)
1923 – Barney Kessel, American guitarist and composer (d. 2004)
1930 – Jimmy Breslin, American journalist and author
1933 – The Singing Nun, Belgian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and nun (d. 1985)
1938 – Evel Knievel, American motorcycle rider and stuntman (d. 2007)
1938 – Les Murray, Australian anthologist, poet, and critic
1947 – Michael McKean, American singer-songwriter, actor, and director
1948 – Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress
1951 – Shari Ulrich, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and violinist
1958 – Alan Jackson, American singer-songwriter
1968 – Ziggy Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and voice actor
1969 – Wyclef Jean, Haitian-American rapper, producer, and actor
1972 – Eminem, American rapper, producer, and actor
On this day in history…
1091 – London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.
1604 – Kepler's Supernova: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes a supernova in the constellation Ophiuchus.
1827 – Bellini's third opera, Il pirata, is premiered at Teatro alla Scala di Milano
1860 – First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
1888 – Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
1907 – Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
1919 – RCA is incorporated as the Radio Corporation of America.
1931 – Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.
1933 – Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
1941 – World War II: a German submarine attacks an American ship for the first time in the war
1979 – Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1979 – The Department of Education Organization Act is signed into law creating the US Department of Education and US Department of Health and Human Services.
1989 – The 6.9 on-the-Richter-scale Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Sixty-three people were killed.
1989 – Peaceful Revolution: The East German Politburo votes to remove Erich Honecker from his role as General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.