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KALW Almanac: Monday Aug. 22, 2016

peachy keen by flickr user frankieleon (CC BY 2.0)

 
Today Monday, 22th of August of 2016 is the 235th day of the year
 
There are 131 days remaining until the end of the year.
 
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:33 am 
 
and sunset will be at 7:52 pm. 
 
Today we will have 13 hours and 19 minutes of daylight 
 
The solar transit will be at 1:12 pm.

The first high tide was at 2:59 am 

and the next high tide will be at 3:33 pm. 

The first low tide will be at 8:47 am 

and the next low tide at 9:35 pm.

The Moon is 78.9%illuminated, a Waning Gibbous

Moonrise Today: 10:51 PM↑ 78° East

Moonset Today: 11:16 AM↑ 279° West

Last Quarter Moon in 3 days Wednesday 24th of August of 2016 at 8:41 pm

Today is National Be an Angel Day

Eat a Peach Day

National Pecan Torte Day

National Tooth Fairy Day

Southern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo Day

Today is also…

Flag Day in Russia

Madras Day in Chennai, India

If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You!  You get to share birthday cake with…

1862 – Claude Debussy, French pianist and composer (d. 1918)

1880 – George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)

1893 – Dorothy Parker, American poet and author was born in West Bend, N.J. (d. 1967)

1902 – Leni Riefenstahl, German actress, film director and propagandist (d. 2003)

1904 – Deng Xiaoping, 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China from the late 1970's until his death in 1997, was born in Sichuan province.

1915 – David Dellinger, American activist (d. 2004)

1917 – John Lee Hooker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2001)

1920 – Ray Bradbury, American author and screenwriter was born in Waukegan, Ill.(d. 2012)

1928 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer and academic (d. 2007)

1934 – Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., American general and engineer (d. 2012)

1935 – Annie Proulx, American journalist and author

1939 – Valerie Harper, American actress

1947 – Donna Jean Godchaux, American singer-songwriter (Grateful Dead, Heart of Gold Band, and Jerry Garcia Band, and Donna Jean Godchaux Band)

1947 – Cindy Williams, American actress and producer

1949 – Diana Nyad, American swimmer and author

1950 – Scooter Libby, American lawyer and politician, Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States

1963 – Tori Amos, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (Y Kant Tori Read)

1973 – Kristen Wiig, American actress, comedian, and screenwriter

On this day in history…

565 – Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.

1831 – Nat Turner's slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton County, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who are killed in retaliation for the uprising.

1848 – The United States annexes New Mexico.

1902 – Cadillac Motor Company is founded.

1902 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile in Hartford, Conn.

1932 – The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting.

1950 – Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis.

1952 – The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.

1963 – American Joe Walker in an X-15 test plane reaches an altitude of 107.96 km (67.08 mi) (354,200 feet).

1964The Supremes' "Where Did Our Love Go" hit number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart. It was their first number-one single.

1966 – Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.

1989 – Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.

1992 – FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.

1996 – Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy

2003 – Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.

2004 – Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.

2007 – The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history. The combined run total is also Major League record.