Today Friday, 9th of September of 2016 is the 253rd day of the year.
There are 113 days remaining until the end of the year.
There are exactly 60 Days until Election Day
The sun will rise in San Francisco Bar at 6:48 am
and sunset will be at 7:25 pm.
Today we will have 12 hours and 37 minutes of daylight
The solar transit will be at 1:07 pm.
The first high tide will be at 6:27 am
and the next high tide at 5:22 pm.
The only low tide of the day will be at 11:19 am.
It's a proper Quarter Moon, sometimes called a half-moon, 50.4% illuminated. A Waxing Gibbous moon.
We will have a Full Moon next Friday 16th of September of 2016 at 12:05 pm
and the Last Quarter Moon of the month will fall on the 23th of September of 2016 at 2:56 am
Moonrise Today: 2:18 PM↑ 113° Southeast
Today is California Admission Day
International Sudoku Day
National 401(k) Day
National Hug Your Boss Day
National Steak au Poivre [stɛk‿o pwavʁ] Day
National Teddy Bear Day
National Wiener Schnitzel Day
Stand up to Cancer Day
Tester's Day
Wonderful Weirdos Day
It's also...
Armored Forces Day in Ukraine
Children's Day in Costa Rica
Chrysanthemum Day or Kiku no Sekku in Japan
Day of the Victims of Holocaust and of Racial Violence in Slovakia
Independence Day or Republic Day, celebrates the proclamation of Democratic People's Republic of Korea (better known as North Korea) in 1948.
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Tajikistan from USSR in 1991.
Remembrance for Herman the Cheruscan among The Troth
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You get share birthday cake with...
1585 – Cardinal Richelieu, French cardinal and politician (d. 1642)
1828 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian author and playwright (d. 1910)
1887 – Alf Landon, American lieutenant, banker, and politician, 26th Governor of Kansas (d. 1987)
1920 – Robert Wood Johnson III, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970)
1927 – Elvin Jones, American drummer and bandleader (d. 2004)
1941 – Otis Redding, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1967)
1945 – Dee Dee Sharp, American R&B singer
1952 – Angela Cartwright, English-American actress
1959 – Tom Foley, American baseball player and coach
1960 – Hugh Grant, English actor and producer
1966 – Adam Sandler, American actor, screenwriter, and producer
On this day in history...
1543 – Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
1791 – Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
1839 – John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
1850 – California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
1926 – In the United States the National Broadcasting Company is formed.
1942 – World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon.
1947 – First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
1956 – Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
1969 – In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making French equal to English throughout the Federal government.
1971 – The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, eventually resulting in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
1993 – The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
2015 – Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.