Today Friday, 23th of September of 2016 is the 267th day of the year
There are 99 days remaining until the end of the year.
46 days to Election Day
31 days left to register to vote
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 7:00 am
and sunset will be at 7:03 pm.
Today we will have 12 hours and 3 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 1:02 pm.
The first high tide will be at 6:45 am
and the next high tide at 5:49 pm.
The only low tide of the day will be at 11:40 am.
Moon: 49.2%Waning Crescent
Moonset Today: 2:27 PM↑ 293° Northwest
New Moon in 8 days Friday 30th of September of 2016 at 5:12 pm
First Quarter Moonin 16 days Saturday the 8th of October of 2016 at 9:33 pm
Full Moon in 23 days Saturday 15th of October of 2016 at 9:23 pm
Last Quarter Moonin 29 days Saturday 22th of October of 2016 at 12:14 pm
Today is...
Today is Celebrate Bisexuality Day
Great American Pot Pie Day
Innergize Day
Love Note Day
National Checkers Day
National Dogs in Politics Day
Native American Day
Restless Legs Awareness Day
See You at the Pole
It's also...
Grito de Lares in Puerto Rico
Holocaust Memorial Day in Lithuania
National Day in Saudi Arabia
Teachers' Day in Brunei
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you! You share your special day with...
1215 – Kublai Khan, Mongolian emperor (d. 1294)
1838Victoria Clafin Woodhull Martin. She ran for United States president in 1872
1889 – Walter Lippmann, American journalist and publisher, co-founded The New
Republic (d. 1974)
1907 – Albert Ammons, American pianist (d. 1949)
1916 – Aldo Moro, Italian academic and politician, 39th Prime Minister of Italy (d.
1978)
1920 – Mickey Rooney, American actor, singer, director, and producer (d. 2014)
1926 – John Coltrane, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1967)
1930 – Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 2004)
1935 – Les McCann, American soul-jazz singer and pianist
1939 – Roy Buchanan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1988)
1941 – George Jackson, American activist and author, co-founded the Black
Guerrilla Family (d. 1971)
1943 – Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer-songwriter
1944 – Eric Bogle, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1949 – Bruce Springsteen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1959 – Jason Alexander, American actor, singer, and voice artist
1970 – Ani DiFranco, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
On this day in history...
1642 – First commencement exercises occur at Harvard College.
1779American commander John Paul Jones is said to have declared, "I have
not yet begun to fight!" during a Revolutionary War naval battle.
1806The Lewis and Clark expedition returned to St. Louis from the Pacific
Northwest.
1845 – The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the
modern rules, is founded in New York.
1846 – Astronomers Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann
Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.
1868 – Grito de Lares ("Lares Revolt") occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
1909 – The Phantom of the Opera (original title: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra), a novel by
French writer Gaston Leroux, is first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
On Sept. 23, 1952, Sen. Richard M. Nixon, R-Calif., salvaged his vice-presidential nomination by appearing live on television to refute allegations of improper campaign fundraising. (The address became known as the "Checkers" speech because of Nixon's on-air reference to the family pet, a dog named "Checkers.")
1957Nine black students who had entered Little Rock Central High School in
Arkansas were forced to withdraw because of a white mob outside.
1962 – The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in New York City.
1973 – Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.
1980 – Bob Marley plays what would be his last concert in Pittsburgh.
1986 – Jim Deshaies of the Houston Astros sets a major league record by striking
out the first eight batters he faces in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
1999The Mars Climate Observer apparently burned up as it was about to go
into orbit around the Red Planet.
2002 – The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is
released.
2011The soap opera "All My Children" broadcast its final episode on ABC, ending a
41-year run.