Today Thursday, 2nd of March of 2017 is the 61st day of the year.
There are 304 days remaining until the end of the year.
614 days until mid-term elections
1342 days until the next presidential election
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:38 am
and sunset will be at 6:06 pm.
Today we will have 11 hours and 28 minutes of daylight.
The solar noon will be at 12:22 pm.
The first high tide was at 2:01 am
and the next high tide will be at 2:31 pm.
The first low tide will be at 8:00 am
and the next low tide at 8:04 pm.
The Moon is 18.8% illuminated; a Waxing Crescent
Moon Direction: ↑ 31.54° NNE
Moon Altitude: -39.34°
Moon Distance: 229456 mi
Next Full Moon: Mar 12, 2017 at 7:53 am
Next New Moon: Mar 27, 2017 at 7:57 pm
Next Moonrise: Today at 9:19 am
Today is…
National Banana Cream Pie Day
National Old Stuff Day
National Read Across America Day
Also known as Dr. Seuss Day
Today is also...
Feast of 'Alá (Loftiness), First day of the 19th month of the Bahá'í calendar (Bahá'í Faith) and first day of the Baha'i Nineteen Day Fast
Air Force Day in Sri Lanka
Jamahiriya Day in Libya
Peasants' Day in Burma
Texas Independence Day
Victory at Adwa Day in Ethiopia
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday with you! You share this day with...
1793 – Sam Houston, American soldier and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Texas (d. 1863)
1859 – Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-American author and playwright (d. 1916)
1900 – Kurt Weill, German-American pianist and composer (d. 1950)
1904 – Dr. Seuss, American children's book writer, poet, and illustrator (d. 1991)
1905 – Marc Blitzstein, American composer and songwriter (d. 1964)
1917 – Desi Arnaz, Cuban-American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1986)
1922 – Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, American saxophonist (d. 1986)
1931 – Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian lawyer and politician, President of the Soviet Union, Nobel Prize laureate
1931 – Tom Wolfe, American journalist and author
1936 – John Tusa, Czech-English journalist and academic
1942 – John Irving, American novelist and screenwriter
1942 – Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (d. 2013)
1948 – Larry Carlton, American guitarist and songwriter
1948 – Rory Gallagher, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1995)
1950 – Karen Carpenter, American singer (d. 1983)
1952 – Laraine Newman, American actress and comedian
1953 – Russ Feingold, American lawyer and politician
1962 – Jon Bon Jovi, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
1963 – Alvin Youngblood Hart, American singer and guitarist
1968 – Daniel Craig, English actor and producer
On this day in history…
1717 – The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England.
1791 – Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
1797 – The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound banknotes.
1877 – U.S. presidential election, 1876: Just two days before inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.
1933 – The film King Kong opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
1961 – John F. Kennedy announces the creation of the Peace Corps in a nationally televised broadcast.
1962 – Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.
1972 – The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
1983 – Compact discs and players are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had previously been available only in Japan.
1998 – Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.