Today Thursday, 13th of October of 2016 is the 287th day of the year
There are 79 days remaining until the end of the year.
26 Days until Election Day
11 Days left to Register To Vote
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 7:18 am
and sunset will be at 6:34 pm.
Today we will have 11 hours and 16 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 12:56 pm.
The first low tide was at 3:31 am
and the next low tide will be at 4:04 pm.
The first high tide will be at 10:19 am
and the next high tide at 10:22 pm.
Moon: 90.0%Waxing Gibbous
Moonrise Today: 5:20 PM↑ 96° East
Moonset Today: 4:16 AM↑ 261° West
Full Moon Saturday15th of October of 2016 at 9:23 pm in 3 days
Last Quarter Moon 22nd of October of 2016 at 12:14 pm in 9 days
New Moon 30th of October of 2016 at 10:38 am in 17 days
First Quarter Moon 7th of November of 2016 at 12:51 pm in 25 days
Today is English Language Day
International Day for Failure
International Plain Language Day
International Suit Up Day
Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day
National Train Your Brain Day
National Yorkshire Pudding Day
Silly Sayings Day
The US Navy's Birthday
World Sight Day
Azerbaijani Railway Day (Azerbaijan)
Doi taikomatsuri October 13-15 (Shikokuchūō, Ehime, Japan)
International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
National Police Day (Thailand)
Rwagasore Day (Burundi)
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your birthday with...
1853 – Lillie Langtry, English actress and singer (d. 1929)
1909 – Herblock, American author and illustrator (d. 2001)
1909 – Art Tatum, American pianist (d. 1956)
1911 – Ashok Kumar, Indian actor, singer, and producer (d. 2001)
1917 – Burr Tillstrom, American actor and puppeteer (d. 1985), creator of Kukla, Fran, & Ollie
1921Yves Montand, French actor
1925 – Lenny Bruce, American comedian and actor (d. 1966)
1925 – Margaret Thatcher, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2013)
1934 – Nana Mouskouri, Greek singer and politician
1940 – Pharoah Sanders, American saxophonist and bandleader
1941 – Paul Simon, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1947 – Sammy Hagar, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1948 – Lacy J. Dalton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1950 – Mollie Katzen, American chef and author
1950 – Simon Nicol, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1959 – Marie Osmond, American singer, actress, and television spokesperson
1960 – Ari Fleischer, American journalist and politician, 24th White House Press Secretary
1962 – Jerry Rice, American football player and sportscaster
On this day in history...
54 – Emperor Claudius is poisoned to death under mysterious circumstances. His 17-year-old stepson Nero succeeds him.
1773 – The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier.
1775 – The United States' Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy).
1792 – In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
1821 – The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire is publicly proclaimed.
1843 – In New York City, Henry Jones and 11 others found B'nai B'rith (the oldest Jewish service organization in the world).
1845 – A majority of voters in the Republic of Texas approve a proposed constitution that, if accepted by the U.S. Congress, will make Texas a U.S. state.
1884 – The International Meridian Conference votes on a resolution to establish the meridian passing through the Observatory of Greenwich, in London, England, as the initial
meridian for longitude.
1885 – The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta, United States.
1903The Boston Americans beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-0 to win the first World Series five games to three.
1914 – In Major League Baseball's World Series, the Boston Braves defeat the Philadelphia Athletics, at Fenway Park in Boston, completing the first World Series sweep in
history.
1923 – Ankara replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey.
On Oct. 13, 1943, Italy declared war on Germany, its one-time Axis partner.
1958 – Paddington Bear, a character from English children's literature, makes his debut.
1960Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy participated in the third televised debate of the presidential campaign, with Nixon in Hollywood, Calif., and Kennedy in New
York.
1960The World Series ended with a home run for the first time as Bill Mazeroski of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit a round-tripper in the ninth inning of Game 7 against the New
York Yankees.
1962"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" by Edward Albee opened on Broadway.
1967 – The first game in the history of the American Basketball Association is played as the Anaheim Amigos lose to the Oakland Oaks 134–129 in Oakland, California.
1976 – The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle is obtained by Dr. F. A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C.
1981Egyptians voted in a referendum to elect Vice President Hosni Mubarak the new president, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
1988 – Naguib Mahfouz wins Nobel Prize in Literature.
1990 – End of the Lebanese Civil War. Syrian forces launch an attack on the free areas of Lebanon removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.
1998The NBA canceled the first two weeks of its regular season because of a lockout.
2005British playwright Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize in literature.
2006The United Nations General Assembly appointed South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon the next U.N. secretary-general.
2010Rescuers in Chile pulled 33 men one by one to freedom 69 days after they were trapped in a collapsed mine a half-mile underground.
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