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KALW Almanac - Friday Sep. 9, 2016

Steak au Poivre by flickr user Tim Pierce (CC BY 2.0)

 
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.