Today Wednesday, 30th of August of 2017, is the 242nd day of the year...
There are 123 days remaining until the end of the year.
433 days until Mid-Term elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018
( 1 year 2 months and 7 days from today)
1161 days until Presidential Elections on Tuesday November 3, 2020
( 3 years 2 months and 4 days from today)
the sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:39 am
and sunset will be at 7:41 pm.
Today we will have 13 hours and 2 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 1:10 pm
The first low tide was at 1:14 am
and the next low tide will be at 1:08 pm.
The first high tide will be at 8:30 am
and the next high tide at 7:07 pm.
The Moon is 61.2% illuminated; a Waxing Gibbous moon
Moon Direction:↑ 292.19° WNW
Moon Altitude:-54.01°
Moon Distance:251225 mi
Next Full Moon: Sep 6, 201712:02 am
Next New Moon: Sep 19, 201710:29 pm
Next Moonrise: Today3:13 pm
Today is…
"August 30th" isa song by Delirious
Frankenstein Day
1797 – Mary Shelley, English novelist and playwright (d. 1851)
National Beach Day
National Grief Awareness Day
National Holistic Pet Day
National Toasted Marshmallow Day
Slinky Day
Willing-To-Lend-A-Hand Wednesday
It’s also…
Constitution Day on Turks and Caicos Islands
Independence Day in Tartarstan
International Day of the Disappeared
Popular Consultation Day in East Timor
Saint Rose of Lima's Day in Peru
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
1797 – Mary Shelley, English novelist and playwright (d. 1851)
1893 – Huey Long, American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (d. 1935)
1896 – Raymond Massey, Canadian-American actor and playwright (d. 1983)
1898 – Shirley Booth, American actress and singer (d. 1992)
1901 – Roy Wilkins, American journalist and activist (d. 1981)
1908 – Fred MacMurray, American actor (d. 1991)
1909 – Virginia Lee Burton, American author and illustrator (d. 1968)
1917 – Denis Healey, English soldier and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 2015)
1918 – Ted Williams, American baseball player and manager (d. 2002)
1919 – Kitty Wells, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)
1924 – Kenny Dorham, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (d. 1972)
1925 – Laurent de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator
1926 – Daryl Gates, American police officer, created the D.A.R.E. Program (d. 2010)
1928 – Johnny Mann, American singer-songwriter and conductor (d. 2014)
1930 – Warren Buffett, American businessman and philanthropist
1935 – John Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2001)
1939 – John Peel, English radio host and producer (d. 2004)
1943 – Jean-Claude Killy, French skier
1944 – Molly Ivins, American journalist and author (d. 2007)
1948 – Lewis Black, American comedian, actor, and author
1952 – Simon Bainbridge, English composer and educator
1954 – Alexander Lukashenko, Belarusian marshal and politician, 1st President of Belarus
1954 – Ravi Shankar Prasad, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Communications and IT
1958 – Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist and activist (d. 2006)
1972 – Cameron Diaz, American model, actress, and producer
1973 – Lisa Ling, American journalist and author
1980 – Derrick Ward, American football player
On this day in history…
1835 – Australia: Melbourne, Victoria is founded.
1918 – Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
1963 – The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
1967 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
1992 – The 11-day Ruby Ridge standoff ends with Randy Weaver surrendering to federal
authorities.