Today Thursday, 21st of July of 2016, is the 203rd day of the year.
There are 163 days remaining until the end of the year.
the sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:06 am
and sunset will be at 8:27 pm
Today we will have 14 hours and 21 minutes of sun.
The solar transit will be at 1:16 pm.
The first high tide was at 12:34 am
and the next high tide will be at 2:17 pm.
The first low tide will be at7:09 am
and the next low tide at 7:09 pm.
The Moon rises this morning at 5:07 am (293º)
Then the moon sets at 3:32 pm (67º)
The moon will be 90% illuminated, a waning gibbous moon
Today is...
National Junk Food Day
Get To Know Your Customers Day
It's also...
Liberation Day in 1944 in Guam
National Day in Belgium, celebrating the inauguration of Léopold I, the first king of the Belgians, after its
independence from the Netherlands
Racial Harmony Day in Singapore
Summer Kazanskaya in Russia
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You celebrate with...
1620 – Jean Picard, French astronomer (d. 1682)
1899 – Ernest Hemingway, American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
1911 – Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and theorist (d. 1980)
1920 – Isaac Stern, Polish violinist and conductor (d. 2001)
1924 – Don Knotts, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1938 – Janet Reno, American lawyer and politician, 79th
1939 – John Negroponte, English-American diplomat, 23rd United States Ambassador to the United Nations
1948 – Snooty, American manatee
1948 – Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam), English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1948 – Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist
1951 – Robin Williams, American actor, singer, and producer (d. 2014)
1975 – Cara Dillon, Irish singer-songwriter
On this day in history...
1865 – In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is
regarded as the first western showdown.
1873 – At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
1907 – The passenger steamer SS Columbia collides with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, causing the Columbia to sink killing 88 people
1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is convicted of
teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
1954France surrendered North Vietnam to the Communists.
1959 – Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the
last team to integrate. He came in as a pinch runner for Vic Wertz and stayed in as shortstop in a 2–1 loss to
the Chicago White Sox.
1961Capt. Virgil "Gus" Grissom became the second American to rocket into a sub-orbital pattern around
the Earth, flying on the Liberty Bell 7.
1969Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin blasted off from the moon aboard the
lunar module.
1970 – After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
1983 – The world's lowest temperature in an inhabited location is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at
−89.2 °C (−128.6 °F).
2007"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the final volume in the book series by J.K. Rowling, went on
sale.
2008Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, one of the world's top war crimes fugitives, was
arrested in a Belgrade suburb by Serbian security forces.
2011 – NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135 at
NASA'sKennedy Space Center.
2012 – Erden Eruç completes the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.