May 9 is the 130th day of the year.
There are 236 days remaining until the end of the year.
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:04 am
and sunset will be at 8:09 pm.
Today we will have 14 hours and 5 minutes of sun.
The first high tide was at 1:32 am
and the next high tide will be at 3:26 pm.
The first low tide will be at 8:11 am
and the next low tide at 8:17 pm.
The moon is only 7 percent lit up.
It's now a waxing crescent.
We're expecting a quarter moon by Friday the 13th.
today is…
National Moscato Day
National Butterscotch Brownie Day
National Lost Sock Memorial Day
National Women's Checkup Day
It's also…
Anniversary of Dianetics in the Church of Scientology
Liberation Day, commemorating the end of the German occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II on the islands of Guernsey and Jersey
National Day in Alderney, another island in the English Channel
Victory Day observances, celebration of the Soviet Union victory over Nazi Germany in the Soviet Union, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Victory and Peace Day, marks the capture of Shusha (1992) in the Nagorno-Karabakh War, and the end of World War II. (Armenia)
if today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You, and to...
1860Sir James Barrie Scottish dramatist and novelist; wrote "Peter Pan"
1800John Brown, American abolitionist; led raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry in 1859 (d. 1859)
1882Henry J. Kaiser, American shipbuilder and businessman, founded Kaiser Shipyards (d. 1967)
1914Hank Snow, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999)
1918 "60 Minutes" newsman and one-time game show host Mike Wallace was born Myron Wallace in Brookline, Mass. (d. 2012)
1921Daniel Berrigan, American priest, poet, and activist (d. 2016)
1924Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer, poet, and author (d. 1997)
1936Albert Finney, English actor
1936Glenda Jackson, English actress turned politician
1937Dave Prater, American singer (Sam & Dave) (d. 1988)
1949Billy Joel, singer/songwriter, composer, pianist
1942John Ashcroft, American lawyer and politician, 79th United States Attorney General
1946Candice Bergen, American actress and producer
1953Connie Kaldor, Canadian singer-songwriter
on this day in history...
1887Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
1904The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h).
1926Americans Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett made what they claimed was the first airplane flight over the North Pole. (Evidence suggests they may have missed their
target by 150 miles.)
1936Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
1945World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the
Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen
Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the
Kriegsmarine.
1945World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.
1958Film: Vertigo has world premiere in San Francisco.
1960 The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral
contraceptive pill.
1961Federal Communications Commission chairman Newton N. Minow condemned TV programming as a "vast wasteland" in a speech to the National Association of
Broadcasters.
1970Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
1974The House Judiciary Committee opened hearings on whether to recommend the impeachment of President Richard Nixon.
1974A concert in Cambridge, Mass., prompted rock critic Jon Landau to write, "I saw rock and roll future and it's name is Bruce Springsteen."
1978The bullet-riddled body of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro, who'd been abducted by the Red Brigades, was found in an automobile in the center of Rome.
1994South Africa's newly-elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country's first black president.
2010Dallas Braden pitched the 19th perfect game in major league history, leading the Oakland Athletics in a 4-0 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays.
2012President Barack Obama declared his support for same-sex marriage.