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KALW Almanac: Mon. Nov. 7, 2016

 
Today Monday, 7th of November of 2016 is the 312nd day of the year. 
 
There are 54 days remaining until the end of the year.
 
Tomorrow is Election Day!
 
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:43 am 
 
and sunset will be at 5:04 pm. 
 
Today we will have 10 hours and 21 minutes of daylight.
 
The solar transit will be at 11:54 am.

The first high tide will be at 5:47 am 

and the next high tide at 4:33 pm. 

The first low tide will be at 11:08 am 

and the next low tide at 11:08 pm.

The moon 47.3% illuminated.  We are having our First Quarter Moon of the month

The moon will rise in the southeast (108º) at 12:59 pm 

and will set in the southwest (254º) at 11:55 pm.

The lunar transit is the time at which the moon crosses the local meridian (San Francisco, 122.5º W) at 6:27 pm.

We'll have a Full Moon in 7 days on Monday the 14th of November of 2016 at 5:52 am

The Last Quarter Moon of the month will be in 14 days on Monday the 21st of November of 2016 at 12:33 am

And we'll have a New Moon in 22 days on Tuesday the 29th of November of 2016 at 4:18 am

First Quarter Moon for next month will fall in 29 days on Wednesday the 7th of December of 2016 at 1:03 am

Today is Hug a Bear Day

Job Action Day

Little League Girls Day

National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day

Notary Public Day

It's also Commemoration Day, the anniversary of Ben Ali's succession in Tunisia

Hungarian Opera Day

National Day, after Treaty of the Pyrenees in Northern Catalonia

October Revolution Day, once celebrated in the Soviet Union. Nowadays it's an unofficial holiday in modern Russia, Belarus, and Kyrgyzstan

Tokhu Emong, the farvest festival celebrated by the Lotha Naga people of India

If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You!  You share your special day with…

1867Marie Curie, the Polish-born French physicist twice awarded the Nobel Prize for her work on radioactivity (d. 1934)  In 1911,Marie Curie became the first multiple Nobel Prize winner when she was given the award for chemisty eight years after garnering the physics prize with her late husband, Pierre. (She remains the only woman with multiple Nobels and the only person to receive the award in two science categories.)

1879Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (d. 1940)

1913Albert Camus, French philosopher, journalist, and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)

1918Billy Graham, American minister and author

1922Al Hirt, American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1999)

1926Joan Sutherland, Australian-Swiss soprano (d. 2010)

1943Joni Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

1952David Petraeus, American general, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

1956Judy Tenuta, American actress, producer, screenwriter, and accordion player

1970Morgan Spurlock, American director, producer, and screenwriter

On this day in history...

1492The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.

1775John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.

1874A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.

1893Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.

1908Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.

1914The first issue of The New Republic is published.

1916Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.

1916Radio station 2XG, located in the Highbridge section of New York City, makes the first audio broadcast of presidential election returns.

1919The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in twenty-three different U.S. cities.

1929In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.

1933Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.

1962Richard M. Nixon, who failed in a bid to become governor of California, held what he called his last press conference, telling reporters, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore." (Ten years later on the same day in 1972, now President Richard M. Nixon was re-elected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern.)

1967Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.

1967US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

1989Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.

1989David Dinkins becomes the first African American to be elected Mayor of New York City.

1990Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.

1991 Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.

1994WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.

2006Keith Ellison, a Democrat from Minnesota, became the first Muslim elected to Congress.

2009The Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed, 220-215, landmark health care legislation to expand coverage to tens of millions who lacked it and placed tough new restrictions on the insurance industry.