Today Monday, 8th of May of 2017 is the 128th day of the year.
There are 237 days remaining until the end of the year.
547 days until Congressional Elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018 (1 year 5 months and 29 days)
1275 days until the next Presidential Election on Tuesday November 3, 2020(3 years 5 months and 26 days)
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:05 am
and sunset will be at 8:08 pm.
Today we will have 14 hours and 3 minutes of sunlight.
The solar transit will be at 1:06 pm.
The first low tide was at 4:57 am
and the next low tide will be at 4:43 pm.
The first high tide will be at 11:26 am
and the next high tide at 11:14 pm.
The Moon is 94.7% illuminated; a Waxing Gibbous moon
Moon Direction: ↑ 265.68° W
Moon Altitude: -2.36°
Moon Distance: 248645 mi
Next Full Moon: May 10, 2017 at 2:42 pm
Next New Moon: May 25, 2017 at 12:44 pm
Next Moonrise: Today at 6:13 pm
Today is...
Free Trade Day
Great Lakes Awareness Day
Iris Day
National Coconut Cream Pie Day
National Have a Coke Day
National Meeting Planners Appreciation Day
National Student Nurses Day
No Socks Day
It's also...
Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives during the Second World War
Victory in Europe Day, Also known as V-E Day
World Ovarian Cancer Day
World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day
Emancipation Day (Columbus, Mississippi)
Furry Dance (Helston, UK)
Miguel Hidalgo's birthday (Mexico)
Parents' Day (South Korea)
Truman Day (Missouri)
Veterans Day (Norway)
White Lotus Day (Theosophy)
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with...
1821 – William Henry Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1885)
1824 – William Walker, American physician, lawyer, journalist and mercenary (d. 1860)
1828 – Henry Dunant, Swiss businessman and activist, co-founded the Red Cross, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1910)
1847 – Oscar Hammerstein I, American businessman and composer (d. 1919)
1884 – Harry S. Truman, American colonel and politician, 33rd President of the United States (d. 1972)
1895 – James H. Kindelberger, American businessman (d. 1962)
1895 – Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop (d. 1979)
1895 – Edmund Wilson, American critic, essayist, and editor (d. 1972)
1905 – Red Nichols, American cornet player, composer, and bandleader (d. 1965)
1910 – Mary Lou Williams, American pianist and composer (d. 1981)
1911 – Robert Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1938)
1920 – Tom of Finland, Finnish illustrator (d. 1991)
1926 – David Attenborough, English environmentalist and television host
1926 – Don Rickles, American comedian and actor (d. 2017)
1928 – Ted Sorensen, American lawyer, 8th White House Counsel (d. 2010)
1930 – Gary Snyder, American poet, essayist, and translator
1937 – Thomas Pynchon, American novelist
1940 – Ricky Nelson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 1985)
1940 – Toni Tennille, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1941 – Bill Lockyer, American academic and politician, 30th Attorney General of California
1945 – Keith Jarrett, American pianist and composer
1964 – Melissa Gilbert, American actress and director
1970 – Naomi Klein, Canadian author and activist
1975 – Enrique Iglesias, Spanish-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1976 – Martha Wainwright, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1977 – Joe Bonamassa, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
and on this day in history...
1429 – Joan of Arc lifts the Siege of Orléans, turning the tide of the Hundred Years' War.
1541 – Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River and names it Río de Espíritu Santo.
1861 – American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is named the capital of the Confederate States of America.
1877 – At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.
1886 – Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
1912 – Paramount Pictures is founded.
1945 – World War II: V-E Day, combat ends in Europe. German forces agree in Reims, France, to an unconditional surrender.
1972 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
1973 – A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.
1976 – The rollercoaster The New Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
1978 – The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
1980 – The World Health Organization confirms the eradication of smallpox.