September 18 is the 261st day of the year
There are 104 days remaining until the end of the year.
Moon: 23.0%
Waxing Crescent
Sunrise Today: 6:54 AM
Sunset Today: 7:13 PM
HIGH TIDE this morning was 3:33 at 4.4 feet
and will come again at 3:17 this afternoon at 5.4 feet
LOW TIDE this morning will occur 8:46 at 2.4 feet
and again at 9:43 tonight at 1.0 foot
Today is National Play-doh Day
It's also the Day of National Music (Azerbaijan)
Island Language Day (Okinawa Prefecture, Japan)
National Day or Dieciocho (Chile)
Navy Day (Croatia)
World Water Monitoring Day (International)
1851 – First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
1870 – Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition to Yellowstone.
1882 – The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
1927 – The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
1947 – The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States Armed Forces.
1947 – The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency are established in the United States under the National Security Act.
1948 – Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator's term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
1960 – Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
1975 – Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.
1977 – Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
1997 – United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations.
2007 – Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.
2009 – The 72-year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast.
2014 – Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom.
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You
and happy birthday to:
1709 – Samuel Johnson, English lexicographer and author (d. 1784)
1905 – Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress and singer (d. 1990)
1933 – Robert Blake, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1933 – Jimmie Rodgers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1939 – Fred Willard, American actor
1940 – Frankie Avalon, American singer and actor
1950 – Anna Deavere Smith, American actress and playwright
1951 – Ben Carson, American neurosurgeon and author
1951 – Dee Dee Ramone, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Ramones) (d. 2002)
1956 – Chris Hedges, American journalist and author
1971 – Lance Armstrong, American cyclist and activist, founded the Lance Armstrong Foundation
1971 – Jada Pinkett Smith, American actress and singer (Wicked Wisdom)
If you have children who attend public school in the city and county of San Francisco, You may want to know what will be served for lunch today in the cafeteria:
LUNCH in elementary, middle and high schools
MAC & CHEESEBURGER PASTA
CHEESETAMALE
SHREDDEDLETTUCEW/RANCH
Middle and High Schoolers may also have
the TURKEY DELI SANDWICH
and, or the BEAN & CHEESE QUESADILLA