Today Tuesday, 23th of August of 2016 is the 236th day of the year
There are 130 days remaining until the end of the year.
The sun rose this morning at 6:34 am
and sunset will be at 7:51 pm.
Today we will have 13 hours and 17 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 1:12 pm.
The first high tide was at 4:04 am
and the next high tide will be at 4:21 pm.
The first low tide will be at 9:37 am
and the next low tide at 10:42 pm.
The Moon is 68.7% illuminated, a Waning Gibbous moon
Moonrise Today: 11:32 PM↑ 74° East
Moonset Today: 12:24 PM↑ 284° West
Today is Buttered Corn Day
Hug Your Sweetheart Day
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
National Spongecake Day
Ride the Wind Day
Valentino Day
Today is also...
Battle of Kursk Day in Russia
Day of the National Flag in Ukraine
European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism or Black Ribbon Day in the European Union and other countries
as well as Liberation from Fascist Occupation Day in Romania
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
Internaut Day
National Day for Physicians in Iran
Umhlanga Day in Swaziland
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your special day with...
1900 – Malvina Reynolds, American singer-songwriter and activist (d. 1978)
1905 – Ernie Bushmiller, American cartoonist (d. 1982) He drew the daily comic strip Nancy
1912 – Gene Kelly, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1996)
1931 – Barbara Eden, American actress (Jeannie in the 1960's comedy TV series I Dream Of Jeannie)
1932 – Mark Russell, American comedian, singer, and pianist
1933 – Pete Wilson, American commander and politician, 36th Governor of California
1942 – Letta Mbulu, South African-American singer and actress
1946 – Keith Moon, English drummer, songwriter, and producer (The Who and
Plastic Ono Band) (d. 1978)
1947 – Terje Rypdal, Norwegian guitarist and songwriter (The Vanguards)
1949 – Shelley Long, American actress
1949 – Rick Springfield, Australian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1951 – Queen Noor of Jordan
1970 – Brad Mehldau, American pianist and composer
1970 – River Phoenix, American actor (d. 1993)
1975 – Eliza Carthy, English singer-songwriter and fiddler (Blue Murder)
1978 – Kobe Bryant, American basketball player
On this day in history…
79 – Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of
fire.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of
Rebellion to the Court of St James's stating that the American colonies have
proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
1784 – Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an
independent state under the name of Franklin; it is not accepted into the United
States, and only lasts for four years.
1898 – The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of
Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
1904 – The automobile tire chain is patented.
1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the
Moon.
1970 – Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad
Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
1973 – A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage
crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors,
leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".
1987 – The American male basketball team lost the gold medal to Brazilian team at
the Pan American Games in Indianapolis. The final score was 120–115 and triggered
changes in this sport basis in USA, resulting in the "Dream Team".
1989 – Singing Revolution: Two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
stand on the Vilnius–Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic Way).
1990 – Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1990 – West Germany and East Germany announce that they will reunite on
October 3.
1991 – Tim Berners-Lee opens the World Wide Web (WWW) to new users.
1993 – The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243
Ida, the first known asteroid moon.
1994 – Eugene Bullard, the only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously
commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.