Today Thursday, 17th of November of 2016 is the 322nd day of the year.
There are 44 days remaining until the end of the year.
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:54 am
and sunset will be at 4:56 pm.
Today we will have 10 hours and 2 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 11:55 am.
The first high tide will be at 1:59 am
and the next high tide at 12:53 pm.
The first low tide will be at 6:46 am
and the next low tide at 7:36 pm.
The Moon is 87.2% illuminated: a Waning Gibbous moon
Moonrise Today: 8:30 pm↑ 67° East
Moonset Today: 10:05 am↑ 294° Northwest
Last Quarter Moon will fall on Monday the 21st of November of 2016 at 12:33 am
and we'll have a New Moon in 12 days Tuesday 29th of November of 2016 at 4:18 am
Today is Electronic Greeting Card Day
Great American Smokeout
Homemade Bread Day
International Guinness World Records Day
International Students' Day
National Baklava Day
National Farm Joke Day
National Take a Hike Day
National Unfriend Day
Nouveau Beaujolais Day
Use Less Stuff Day
World Pancreatic Cancer Day
World Peace Day
World Philosophy Day
World Prematurity Day
Today is also…
International Happy Gose Day
International Students' Day
Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day (Czech Republic and Slovakia)
On this day in history…
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you! You get to celebrate with...
1790 – August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1868)
1891 – Lester Allen, American screen, stage, vaudeville, circus actor, and film director (d. 1949)
1895 – Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher and critic (d. 1975)
1895 – Gregorio López, Mexican journalist, author, and poet (d. 1966)
1896 – Lev Vygotsky, Belarusian-Russian psychologist and philosopher (d. 1934)
1901 – Lee Strasberg, Ukrainian-American actor and director. He pioneered the technique of "method acting".(d. 1982)
1916 – Shelby Foote, American historian and author (d. 2005)
1925 – Rock Hudson, American actor and singer (d. 1985)
1934 – Jim Inhofe, American soldier and politician, senior senator of Oklahoma
1938 – Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1942 – Martin Scorsese, American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
1944 – Danny DeVito, American actor, director, and producer
1944 – Lorne Michaels, Canadian-American screenwriter and producer, created Saturday Night Live
1944 – Tom Seaver, American baseball player and sportscaster
1945 – Roland Joffé, English-French director, producer, and screenwriter
1946 – Martin Barre, English guitarist and songwriter
1948 – Howard Dean, American physician and politician, 79th Governor of Vermont. YOW!
1948 – East Bay Ray, American guitarist. He played with The Dead Kennedys.
1949 – John Boehner, American businessman and politician, 61st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
1955 – Yolanda King, American actress and activist (d. 2007)
1960 – RuPaul, American drag queen performer, actor, and singer
1964 – Susan Rice, American academic and politician, 24th United States National Security Advisor
1966 – Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1997)
On this day in history...
1558 – Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.
1603 – English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
1777 – Articles of Confederation (United States) are submitted to the states for ratification.
1800 – The United States Congress holds its first session in Washington, D.C.
1820 – Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica. (The Palmer Peninsula is later named after him.)
1869 – In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.
1871 – The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.
1876 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Slavonic March" is given its premiere performance in Moscow, Russia.
1903 – The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
1911 – Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated, which is the first black Greek-lettered organization founded at an American historically black college or university, was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C.
1947 – American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th
century.
1950 – Lhamo Dondrub is officially named the 14th Dalai Lama.
1968 – Viewers of the Raiders–Jets football game in the eastern United States are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish when NBC broadcasts Heidi instead, prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the U.S.
1969 – Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, Finland to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
1970 – Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai Massacre.
1970The Soviet Union landed an unmanned, remote-controlled vehicle on the moon.
1973President Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, Fla., that ``people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook.''
1978 – The Star Wars Holiday Special airs on CBS, receiving negative reception from critics, fans, and even Star Wars creator George Lucas.
1983 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico.
1989 – Velvet Revolution begins: In Czechoslovakia, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29).
1993 – United States House of Representatives passes a resolution to establish the North American Free Trade Agreement.
2003Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as governor of California.
2008The vampire romance movie "Twilight" premiered in Los Angeles.
2010A hand-count of votes affirmed the re-election of U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, the first Senate candidate in over 50 years to win a write-in campaign.