Today Thursday, 29th of September of 2016 is the 273rd day of the year
There are 93 days remaining until the end of the year.
40 Days to Election Day
25 Days to register to vote!
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 7:05 am
and sunset will be at 6:54 pm.
Today we will have 11 hours and 49 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 1:00 pm.
The first low tide was at 4:58 am
and the next low tide will be at 5:22 pm.
The first high tide will be at 11:42 am
and the next high tide at 11:41 pm.
the Moon is 2.1% illuminated, a Waning Crescent
Moonrise Today: 5:47 AM↑ 84° East
Moonset Today: 6:30 PM↑ 273° West
We will have a New Moon tomorrow, Friday the 30th of September of 2016 at 5:12 pm
Today is Broadway Musicals Day
Confucius Day
Happy Goose Day
Michaelmas
National Attend Your Grandchild's Birthday Day
National Mocha Day
National Poisoned Blackberries Day
VFW Day
World Heart Day
World Maritime Day
Today is also...
Day of Machine-Building Industry Workers in Russia
Inventors' Day in Argentina
National Coffee Day
Victory of Boquerón Day in Paraguay
World Heart Day
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share birthday cake with...
1547Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1616)
1758Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, English admiral (d. 1805)
1895Clarence Ashley, American singer, guitarist, and banjo player (d. 1967)
1901Enrico Fermi, the Italian-born physicist who helped develop America's first atomic weapons
1903Diana Vreeland, American journalist (d. 1989)
1907Gene Autry, American singer, actor, and businessman (d. 1998)
1923Stan Berenstain, American author and illustrator (d. 2005)
1927Pete McCloskey, American colonel and politician
1933 Samora Machel, Mozambican commander and politician, 1st President of Mozambique (d. 1986)
1934Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Hungarian-American psychologist and academic
1935Jerry Lee Lewis, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1936Silvio Berlusconi, Italian businessman and politician, 50th Prime Minister of Italy
1939Dan Crary, American singer and guitarist
1939Molly Haskell, American author and critic
1939Larry Linville, American actor (d. 2000)
1942Madeline Kahn, American actress and singer (d. 1999)
1942Jean-Luc Ponty, French violinist and composer
1943Mohammad Khatami, Iranian scholar and politician, 5th President of Iran
1943Lech Wałęsa, Polish electrician and politician, 2nd President of Poland, Nobel Prize laureate
1948Bryant Gumbel, American journalist and sportscaster
1951Michelle Bachelet, Chilean physician and politician, 34th President of Chile
1956Suzzy Roche, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1961Julia Gillard, Welsh-Australian lawyer and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Australia
1961Stephanie Miller, American comedian and radio host
On this day in history...
1789The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
1789The 1st United States Congress adjourns.
1829The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.
1923The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.
1954New York Giants center-fielder Willie Mays made a running catch with his back to home plate on a 450-foot blast by Cleveland Indians batter Vic Wertz in Game 1 of the World Series.
1957Twenty MCi (740 peta-becquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
1957The New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds, losing to the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-1. The Giants moved to San Francisco for the next season.
1960Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
1975WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.
1978Pope John Paul I was found dead in his Vatican apartment a little more than one month after becoming head of the Roman Catholic Church.
2008Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones industrial average fell a record 777.68 points after the House defeated a $700 billion emergency rescue plan for the nation's financial system.