Today Monday, 26th of June of 2017 is the 177th day of the year.
There are 188 days remaining until the end of the year.
498 days until Congressional Election on Tuesday November 6, 2018.
1226 days until Presidential Elections on Tuesday November 3, 2020.
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 5:50 am
and sunset will be at 8:36 pm.
Today we will have 14 hours and 46 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 1:13 pm.
The first high tide was at 1:12 am
and the next high tide will be at 3:14 pm.
The first low tide will be at 7:56 am
and the next low tide at 8:05 pm.
The Moon is now 8.4% illuminated; a Waxing Crescent moon
Happy Eid al Fitr! Eid Mubarak!
Moon Direction: ↑ 27.79° NNE
Moon Altitude: -31.63°
Moon Distance: 227573 mi
Next Full Moon: Jul 8, 2017 at 9:06 pm
Next New Moon: Jul 23, 2017 at 2:45 am
Next Moonrise: Today at 8:49 am
Today is...
Beautician's Day
Forgiveness Day
National Canoe Day
National Chocolate Pudding Day
Please Take My Children to Work Day
Tropical Cocktails Day
Army and Navy Day in Azerbaijan
Flag Day in Romania
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Madagascar from France in 1960.
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Somalia from the British in 1960.
International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
Ratcatcher's Day in Hamelin, Germany
Sunthorn Phu Day in Thailand
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you! You share this special day with...
1819 – Abner Doubleday, American general (d. 1893)
1892 – Pearl Buck, American Nobel Prize-winning author
1898 – Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft engineer and designer
1901 – Stuart Symington, American politician; U.S. senator from Missouri (1953-76)
1903 – Big Bill Broonzy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1958)
1904 – Peter Lorre, Hungarian-Slovak-American actor and singer (d. 1964)
1908 – Salvador Allende, Chilean physician and politician, 29th President of Chile (d. 1973)
1915 – Charlotte Zolotow, American author and poet (d. 2013)
1916 – Virginia Satir, American psychotherapist and author (d. 1988)
1931 – Colin Wilson, English philosopher and author (d. 2013)
1933 – Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (d. 2014)
1934 – Dave Grusin, American pianist and composer
1955 – Mick Jones, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1956 – Chris Isaak, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1974 – Derek Jeter, American baseball player
1980 – Michael Vick, American football player
1993 – Ariana Grande, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
On this day in history...
1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
1894 – The American Railway Union, led by Eugene Debs, called a general strike in sympathy with Pullman workers.
1919 – The New York Daily News was first published.
1925 – Charlie Chaplin's comedy "The Gold Rush" premiered in Hollywood.
1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
1934 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
1945 – The United Nations charter was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco.
1948 – The Berlin Airlift began in earnest as the United States, Britain and France began ferrying supplies to the isolated western sector of Berlin after the Soviet Union cut off land and water routes.
1948 – William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
1953 – Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.
1973 – Former White House counsel John W. Dean told the Senate Watergate Committee about an "enemies list" kept by the Nixon White House.
1974 – The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
1975 – Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
1977 – Elvis Presley held his final concert in Indianapolis, Indiana at Market Square Arena
1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1990 – President George H.W. Bush, who had campaigned for office on a pledge of "no new taxes," conceded that tax increases would have to be included in any deficit-reduction package.
2008 – The Supreme Court struck down a handgun ban in the District of Columbia as it affirmed, 5-4, an individual right to gun ownership.
2013 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5–4, that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
2015 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5–4, that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.