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KALW Almanac: Thursday Aug. 11, 2016

Raspberry Tart by flickr user Dan Dickinson (CC BY-NC 2.0)
Today is Raspberry Tart Day!

Today Thursday, 11th of August of 2016 is the 224rd day of the year. 
 
There are 142 days remaining until the end of the year. 
 
The sun rose in San Francisco at 6:23 am 
 
and sunset will be at 8:06 pm. 
 
Today we will have 13 hours and 43 minutes of sun. The solar transit will be at 1:15 pm.

 
The first low tide was at 12:54 am and the next low tide will be at 12:23 pm. 
 
The first high tide will be at 7:32 am and the next high tide at 6:50 pm.

 
Moon: 57.3% and Waxing Gibbous
 
Moonrise Today: 2:41 PM↑ 110° East
 
Moonset Today: 12:39 AM↑ 252° West

Today is… 

Annual Medical Checkup Day

Ingersoll Day

National Raspberry Bombe Day

National Raspberry Tart Day

Play in the Sand Day

Presidential Joke Day

Son and Daughter Day

It's also...

Flag Day in Pakistan

Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Chad from France in 1960.

Mountain Day in Japan

On this day in history...

3114 BCThe Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Mayans, begins.

1929Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.

1934The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.

1942Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.

1954A formal peace took hold in Indochina, ending more than seven years of fighting between the French and the Communist Vietminh.

1984"We begin bombing in five minutes": United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.

1992The Mall of America, the biggest shopping mall in the country, opened in Bloomington, Minn.

If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you!  Happy Birthday also to…

1921 Alex HaleyAmerican author . His best known books include, "Roots", and  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X".

1926Claus von Bülow, Danish-English lawyer

1933Jerry Falwell, American minister and television host (d. 2007)

1943 Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani general and politician, 10th President of Pakistan

1946Marilyn vos Savant, American journalist and author

1950Steve Wozniak, American computer scientist and programmer, co-founded Apple Inc.

1952Bob Mothersbaugh, American singer, guitarist, and producer, best known for his work with the band Devo

1953Hulk Hogan, American wrestler and actor

1954Joe Jackson, English singer-songwriter

1958Jah Wobble, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Public Image Ltd and The Damage Manual)