Today Tuesday, 25th of October of 2016 is the 299th day of the year.
There are 67 days remaining until the end of the year.
14 Days, that's Two weeks from today is Election Day!
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 7:30 am
and the sun will set at 6:18 pm.
Tomorrow we will have 10 hours and 48 minutes of sun.
The solar transit will be at 12:54 pm.
The first low tide will be at 2:13 am
and the next low tide at 3:00 pm.
The first high tide will be at 9:15 am
and the next high tide at 8:59 pm.
The Moon is 23.5 % illuminated, a waning crescent moon.
Moonrise Today: 2:43 AM↑ 78° East
Moonset Today: 4:01 PM↑ 280° West
The next phase will be a New Moon in 5 days on Sunday the 30th of October of 2016 at 10:38 am
We'll have the First Quarter Moon in 13 days on Monday the 7th of November of 2016 at 12:51 pm
A Full Moon will rise Monday in 20 days the 14th of November of 2016 at 6:52 am
and the Last Quarter Moon will fall in 26 days Monday the 21st of November of 2016 at 1:33 am
Today is International Artist Day
National Cartoonists Against Crime Day
National Greasy Foods Day
Punk for a Day Day
Simchat Torah
Sourest Day
World Pasta Day (wait, wasn't last week Pasta Day? I guess it was National Pasta Day...)
World Pizza Makers Day
It's also...
Armed Forces Day in Romania
Constitution Day in Lithuania
Day of the Basque Country in Basque Country
Sovereignty Day in Slovenia
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You get to share birthday cake with...
1825Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer and educator (d. 1899)
1838Georges Bizet, French pianist and composer (d. 1875)
1840Helen Blanchard, American inventor (d. 1922)
1881Pablo Ruiz Picasso, born in Malaga, Spain, the great painter and sculptor considered the most influential artist of the 20th century. (d. 1973)
1886Leo G. Carroll, English-American actor (d. 1972)
1891Charles Coughlin, Canadian-American priest and radio host (d. 1979)
1902Henry Steele Commager, American historian and author (d. 1998)
1902Eddie Lang, American guitarist (d. 1933)
1910William Higinbotham, American physicist and video game designer, created Tennis for Two (d. 1994)
1912Minnie Pearl, American country singer and entertainer (d. 1996)
1913Klaus Barbie, German captain (d. 1991)
1923Bobby Thomson, Scottish-American baseball player (d. 2010)
1941Helen Reddy, Australian-American singer-songwriter and actress
1941Anne Tyler, American author and critic
1944James Carville, American lawyer and political consultant
1946Yazzie Johnson, Navajo artist
1952Mollie O'Brien, American singer and guitarist
1955Robin Eubanks, American trombonist and educator
1957Nancy Cartwright, American voice actress (the voice of Bart Simpson)
1963 Tracy Nelson, American actress
1984Katy Perry, American singer-songwriter and actress
On this day in history...
1760Britain's King George III succeeded his late grandfather, George II.IO-]'[
1854The English suffered heavy losses against Russia in the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. The battle inspired Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "Charge of the
Light Brigade."
1938The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces swing music as "a degenerated musical system ... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell". His warning is widely ignored.
1940Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
1962Author John Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
1962Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council proving that Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba.
1971The United Nations seats the People's Republic of China and expels the Republic of China
1977Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.
1983Operation Urgent Fury: The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, at the order of President Ronald Reagan, who said the action was needed to protect U.S. citizens there, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état,
1986The New York Mets won Game 6 of the World Series in the 10th inning when a routine ground ball went through Boston Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner's legs.
2001Microsoft released the Windows XP operating system.
2002Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., 58, was killed in a plane crash in northern Minnesota.
2005U.S. military deaths in Iraq reached 2,000.