Today Tuesday, 2nd of August of 2016 is the 215th day of the year.
There are 151 days remaining until the end of the year.
The sun rose in San Francisco at 6:16 am
and sunset will be at 8:16 pm.
Today we will have 14 hours of sunlight.
The solar transit will be at 1:16 pm.
The first low tide will be at 5:51 am
and the next low tide at 5:46 pm.
The first high tide will be at 12:55 pm
and the next high tide at 11:55 pm.
The Moon is only 0.3% illuminated, a Near New Moon, still a Waning Crescent moon
Moonrise Today: 6:07 AM↑ 70° East
Moonset Today: 8:10 PM↑ 288° West
Today is Dinosaurs Day
National Coloring Book Day
National Ice Cream Sandwich Day
National Night Out
It's also…
Airmobile Forces Day in Ukraine
Day of Azerbaijani cinema
Our Lady of the Angels Day in Costa Rica
Paratroopers Day in Russia
Republic Day Republic of Macedonia)
1776 The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
1876Frontiersman "Wild Bill" Hickok was shot and killed while playing poker at a saloon in Deadwood in present-day South Dakota. He apparently was holding the Dead
Man's hand, aces and eights, both clubs and spades.
1923President Warren G. Harding died of a heart attack in San Francisco at age 57. Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office as President of the United States.
1932The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
1937The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
1939Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt urging creation of an atomic weapons research program.
1943PT-109, a Navy patrol torpedo boat commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy, sank after being sheared in two by a Japanese destroyer off the Solomon Islands. Kennedy was credited with saving members of the crew.
1943Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at Treblinka, one of the deadliest of Nazi death camps where approximately 900,000 persons were murdered in less than 18 months.
1964Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin incident: North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fire on the U.S. destroyer USS Maddox.
1989Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972.
1990Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
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1892Jack L. Warner, Canadian-born American production manager and producer, co-founded Warner Bros. (d. 1978)
1905 Myrna Loy, American actress (d. 1993)
1911Ann Dvorak, American actress (d. 1979)
1923Shimon Peres, Polish-Israeli lawyer and politician, 9th President of Israel
1924Carroll O'Connor, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2001)
1924James Baldwin, the American essayist, novelist and playwright whose work explored racial issues
1942Isabel Allende, Chilean-American novelist, essayist, essayist
1957Mojo Nixon, American singer-songwriter
1964Mary-Louise Parker, American actress