Today Wednesday, the 23rd of August of 2017 is the 234th day of the year...
There are 131 days remaining until the end of the year.
440 days until Mid-Term Elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018
(1 year 2 months and 14 days from today)
1168 days until Presidential Elections Tuesday November 3, 2020
(3 years 2 months and 11 days from today)
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:33 am
and the sun will set at 7:51 pm.
Today we will have 13 hours and 18 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 1:12 pm.
The first high tide was at 12:51 am
and the next high tide will be at 2:01 pm.
The first low tide will be at 7:08 am
and the next low tide at 7:25 pm.
The Moon is 3.7% illuminated; a Waxing Crescent moon
Moon Direction: ↑ 48.45° NE
Moon Altitude: -34.92°
Moon Distance: 235969 mi
Next Full Moon: Sep 6, 2017 at 12:02 am
Next New Moon: Sep 19, 2017 at 10:29 pm
Next Moonrise: Today at 8:32 am
Today is…
Buttered Corn Day
Hug Your Sweetheart Day
National Spongecake Day
Ride the Wind Day
ValentinoDay
Today is also…
Day of the National Flag in Ukraine
European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism or Black Ribbon Day
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and itsAbolitionNational
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You
1868 – Edgar Lee Masters, American lawyer, author, poet, and playwright (d. 1950)
1900 – Malvina Reynolds, American singer-songwriter and activist (d. 1978)
1912 – Gene Kelly, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1996)
1913 – Bob Crosby, American swing singer and bandleader (d. 1993)
1917 – Tex Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1985)
1931 – Barbara Eden, American actress and singer
1946 – Keith Moon, English drummer, songwriter, and producer (d. 1978)
1947 – Linda Thompson, English folk-rock singer-songwriter
1951 – Queen Noor of Jordan
1970 – River Phoenix, American actor (d. 1993)
1978 – Kobe Bryant, American basketball player and businessman
On this day in history…
AD 79 – Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire
1831 – Nat Turner's slave rebellion is suppressed.
1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
1970 -- First Europe-US live TV program is broadcast via Telstar.
1970 – Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
1973 – A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathize with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".
1989 – Singing Revolution: Two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius–Tallinn road, holding hands.
1991 – The World Wide Web is opened to the public.
2011 – A magnitude 5.8 (class: moderate) earthquake occurs in Virginia. Damage occurs to monuments and structures in Washington D.C. and the resulted damage is estimated at $200 million–$300 million USD.