Today, Wednesday, the 15th of November of 2017 is the 319th day of the year....
There are 46 days remaining until the end of the year.
356 days until mid-term elections Tuesday November 6, 2018
(11 months and 22 days from today)
1084 days until presidential elections Tuesday November 3, 2020
(2 years 11 months and 19 days from today)
The sun rises this morning at 6:51 am
and the sun sets at 4:57 pm.
we will have 10 hours and 6 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 11:54 am.
The first low tide was at 2:35 am
and the next low tide at 3:34 pm.
The first high tide will be at 9:14 am
and the next high tide at 10:02 pm.
The Moon is 8.3% illuminated; a Waning Crescent moon
Moon Direction:↑ 102.24° ESE
Moon Altitude: 8.61°
Moon Distance: 244733 mi
Next New Moon: Saturday November 18, 2017 at 3:42 am
Next Full Moon: Sunday December 3, 2017 at 7:46 am
Next Moonset: Today at 3:52 pm
Today is…
America Recycles Day
American Enterprise Day
Geographic Information Systems Day
George Spelvin Day
I Love to Write Day
Little Red Wagon Day
National Bundt Day
National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day
National Educational Support Professionals Day
National Philanthropy Day
National Raisin Bran Cereal Day
National Spicy Hermit Cookie Day
Pack Your Mom's Lunch Day
Steve Irwin Day
It’s also…
Day of the German-speaking Community of Belgium
Independence Day, unilaterally declared in 1988. In Palestine
King's Feast in Belgium
National Tree Planting Day in Sri Lanka
Republic Proclamation Day Brazil
Shichi-Go-San in Japan
The beginning of Winter Lent in the Eastern Orthodox church
1849 – Mary E. Byrd, American astronomer and educator (d. 1934)
1882 – Felix Frankfurter, Austrian-American lawyer and jurist (d. 1965)
1887 – Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter and educator (d. 1986)
1891 – Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (d. 1944)
1906 – Curtis LeMay, American general and politician (d. 1990)
1907 – Claus von Stauffenberg, German colonel (d. 1944
1916 – Bill Melendez, Mexican-American voice actor, animator, director, and producer (d. 2008)
1925 – Howard Baker, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 12th White House Chief of Staff (d. 2014)
1929 – Ed Asner, American actor, singer, and producer
1930 – J. G. Ballard, English novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 2009)
1932 – Petula Clark, English singer-songwriter and actress
1932 – Clyde McPhatter, American singer (d. 1972)
1933 – Theodore Roszak, American scholar and author (d. 2011)
1937 – Yaphet Kotto, American actor and screenwriter
1941 – Rick Kemp, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
1941 – Daniel Pinkwater, American author and illustrator
1942 – Daniel Barenboim, Argentinian-Israeli pianist and conductor
1947 – Bill Richardson, American politician and diplomat, 21st United States Ambassador to the United Nations
1968 – Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper and producer (d. 2004)
On this day in history…
1532 – Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca Empire leader Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging a meeting on the city plaza the following day.
1926 – The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
1969 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".
1971 – Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
1976 – René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence.
1979 – A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
2006 – Al Jazeera English launches worldwide.