Today is Thursday, 15th of September of 2016; It's the 259th day of the year
There are 107 days remaining until the end of the year.
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:53 am
and the sun will set tonight at 7:16 pm.
We will have 12 hours and 23 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 1:04 pm.
The first low tide will be at 4:52 am
and the next low tide at 5:05 pm.
The first high tide will be at 11:40 am
and the next high tide at 11:25 pm.
The moon is 95% illuminated right now; a Waxing Gibbous
Tomorrow is the Full Moon, Friday 16th of September of 2016 at 12:05 pm
The Last Quarter Moon of the month will fall in 8 days on Sunday the 23th of September of 2016 at 2:56 am
We'll have a New Moon Sunday the 30th of September of 2016 at 5:12 pm in 15 days
Today is Google.com Day
Greenpeace Day
International Dot Day
Make a Hat Day
National Caregivers Day
National Crème de Menthe Day
National Felt Hat Day
National Linguine Day
National Thank You Day
September 15, 2016 is Someday!
Today is also...
Engineer's Day in India
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Guatemala (a Patriotic Day), El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica from Spain in 1821. Mexico celebrates her Independence from Spain tomorrow, the 16th.
International Day of Democracy
Knowledge Day in Azerbaijan
Restoration of Primorska to the Motherland Day in Slovenia
Silpa Bhirasri Day in Thailand
The beginning of German American Heritage Month, celebrated until October 15
The beginning of National Hispanic Heritage Month, celebrated until October 15
in the United States
World Lymphoma Awareness Day
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You celebrate with…
1254 – Marco Polo, Italian merchant and explorer (d. 1324)
1789 – James Fenimore Cooper, American historian and author (d. 1851)
1830 – Porfirio Díaz, Mexican general and politician, 29th President of Mexico (d. 1915)
1857 – William Howard Taft, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 27th President of
the United States (d. 1930)
1876 – Bruno Walter, German-American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1962)
1890 – Agatha Christie, English author and playwright (d. 1976)
1894 – Jean Renoir, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1979)
1903 – Roy Acuff, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (d. 1992)
1907 – Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress (d. 2004)
1913 – John N. Mitchell, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 67th United
States Attorney General (d. 1988)
1918 – Nipsey Russell, American comedian and actor (d. 2005)
1928 – Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1975)
1934 – Tomie dePaola, American author and illustrator
1938 – Gaylord Perry, American baseball player and coach
1945 – Jessye Norman, American soprano
1946 – Tommy Lee Jones, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1946 – Oliver Stone, American director, screenwriter, and producer
1947 – Charles "Bobo" Shaw, American drummer
1984 – Prince Harry of Wales
On this day in history…
1831 – The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the
Camden and Amboy Railroad.
1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands.
The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipelago.
1959 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
1963 – 16th Street Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed at an African-
American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States
1971 – The first Greenpeace ship set sail to protest against nuclear testing.
1978 – Muhammad Ali outpointed Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first
boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times at the Superdome in New
Orleans.
1981 – The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day
O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States
1981 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world
when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside
Washington, D.C.
2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing
in U.S. history.