Tuesday, 1st of August of 2017 is the 213th day of the year...
There are 152 days remaining until the end of the year.
There are 462 days until Mid-Term Elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018 (1 year 3 months and 5 days from today)
and there are 1190 days until Presidential Elections on Tuesday November 3, 2020 (3 years 3 months and 2 days from today)
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:14 am
and the sun will set at 8:18 pm.
We will have 14 hours and 4 minutes of daylight today.
The solar transit will be at 1:16 pm.
The first low tide will be at 2:04 am
and the next low tide at 1:31 pm.
The first high tide will be at 8:55 am
and the next high tide at 7:56 pm.
The Moon is currently 67.8% illuminated; a Waxing Gibbous moon
Moon Direction: ↑ 287.31° WNW
Moon Altitude: -44.98°
Moon Distance: 251132 mi
Next Full Moon: Aug 7, 2017 at 11:10 am
Next New Moon: Aug 21, 2017 at 11:30 am
Next Moonrise: Today at 3:36 pm
Today is...
Homemade Pie Day
Lammas, a festival to mark the annual wheat harvest in England
Lughnasadh (Lunasa) the harvest festival in Ireland and the Celtic diaspora
National Girlfriends Day
National Minority Donor Awareness Day
National Raspberry Cream Pie Day
Play Ball Day
Respect for Parents Day
Rounds Resounding Day
Spiderman Day
Woman Astronomers Day
World Wide Web Day
Yorkshire Day
Today is also...
Armed Forces Day in Lebanon
Armed Forces Day in China, the Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Liberation Army in the People's Republic of China
Azerbaijani Language and Alphabet Day
Celebration of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 which ended the slavery in the British Empire, generally celebrated as a part of Carnival, as the Caribbean Carnival takes place at this time (British West Indies):
Caribana, the first Weekend of August. (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Emancipation Day (Anguilla, the Bahamas, British Virgin Islands) (Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago)
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this special day with…
1770 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician, 4th Governor of Missouri Territory (d. 1838)
1779 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and poet (d. 1843)
1819 – Herman Melville, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (d. 1891)
1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War (d. 1926)
1874 – Charles Spaulding, the insurance man who built one of America's largest black-owned businesses, was born.
1931 – Ramblin' Jack Elliott, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1932 – Meir Kahane, American-Israeli rabbi and activist, founded the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
1933 – Dom DeLuise, American actor, singer, director, and producer (d. 2009)
1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, Algerian-French fashion designer, co-founded Yves Saint Laurent (d. 2008)
1941 – Ron Brown, American captain and politician, 30th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1996)
1942 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1995)
1949 – Jim Carroll, American poet and author (d. 2009)
1953 – Robert Cray, American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist
1963 – Coolio, American rapper, producer, and actor
1978 – Dhani Harrison, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
On this day in history...
1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
1790 – The first U.S. census was completed, showing a population of nearly 4 million people.
1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.
1893 - Henry Perky patents shredded wheat
1911 – Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.
1927 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
1944 – World War II: The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi German occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
1960 – Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
1960 – Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
1961 – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization.
1964 – The former Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1966 – Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
1966 – Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
1980 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state.
1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.
1988 – Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh began broadcasting his nationally syndicated radio program.
1995 – Westinghouse Electric Corp. struck a deal to buy CBS for $5.4 billion.
2007 – The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.
2011 – The U.S. House of Representatives passed, 269-161, emergency legislation to avert the nation's first-ever financial default.