Today Friday, 30th of September of 2016 is the 274th day of the year
There are 92 days remaining until the end of the year.
39 Days to Election Day.
24 Days to Register To Vote.
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 7:06 am
and sunset will be at 6:53 pm.
Today we will have 11 hours and 47 minutes of daylight
The solar transit will be at 12:59 pm.
The first low tide will be at 5:33 am
and the next low tide at 5:58 pm.
The only high tide of the day will be at 12:11 pm.
Moon: 0.2% a Near New Moon (Waning Crescent)
Moonrise Today: 6:44 AM↑ 89° East
Moonset Today: 7:01 PM↑ 268° West
Today is Blasphemy Day
Chewing Gum Day
Hug a Vegetarian Day
International Translation Day
National Mud Pack Day
National Mulled Cider Day
Save the Koala Day
The Time for Yoga
Independence Day (Botswana) or Botswana Day, celebrates the independence of Botswana from United Kingdom in 1966.
International Translation Day (International Federation of Translators)
Recovery Day (Canada)
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You get to share your special day with...
1207 – Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1273)
1882Hans GeigerGerman physicist; introduced the Geiger Counter
1924Truman Capote, the American author of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "In Cold Blood"
1908 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator (d. 1974)
1915 – Lester Maddox, American businessman and politician, 75th Governor of Georgia (d. 2003)
1917 – Yuri Lyubimov, Russian actor and director (d. 2014)
1917 – Buddy Rich, American drummer, bandleader, and actor (d. 1987)
1924 – Truman Capote, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1984)
1927 – W. S. Merwin, American poet and translator
1928 – Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
1931 – Angie Dickinson, American actress
1935 – Johnny Mathis, American singer-songwriter and actor
1942 – Frankie Lymon, American singer-songwriter (d. 1968)
1945 – Ehud Olmert, Israeli lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Israel
1947 – Marc Bolan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1977)
1950 – Laura Esquivel, Mexican author and screenwriter
1954 – Basia, Polish singer-songwriter
1954 – Patrice Rushen, American singer-songwriter and producer
1954 – Barry Williams, American actor and singer
1955 – Frankie Kennedy, Northern Irish flute player (d. 1994)
On this day in history...
1791 – The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.
1882 – Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin,
United States.
1927Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees hit his 60th home run of the season to break his own major-league record.
1935 – The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
1939 – NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game between the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets and the Fordham Rams. Fordham won the game 34–7.
1946An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes.
1947 – The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
1955Actor James Dean was killed in a two-car collision near Cholame, Calif., at age 24.
1962Black student James Meredith succeeded on his fourth try in registering for classes at the University of Mississippi.
1962The National Farm Workers Association, founded by Cesar Chavez and a forerunner of the United Farm Workers, held its first meeting in Fresno, Calif.
1967 – BBC Light Programme, Third Programme and Home Service are replaced with BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4 Respectively, BBC Radio 1 is also launched with Tony Blackburn
presenting its first show.
1968 – The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.
1972 – Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.
1977 – Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
1980 – Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
1982The situation comedy "Cheers" premiered on NBC.
1986 – Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel's covert nuclear program to British media, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy by the Israeli Mossad.
1991The military in Haiti overthrew Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the country's first freely-elected president.
1992George Brett of the Kansas City Royals reached 3,000 career hits during a game against the California Angels.