Today Tuesday, 19th of July of 2016 is the 201th day of the year. There are 165 days remaining until the end of 2016. The sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:04 am
and sunset will be at 8:28 pm.
Today we will have 14 hours and 24 minutes of sun.
The solar transit will be at 1:16 pm.
The first low tide will be at 5:57 am
and the next low tide at 5:43 pm.
The first high tide will be at 1:07 pm
and the next high tide at 11:52 pm.
Moon: 99.6%, it's a Near Full Moon, Waxing Gibbous
Moonrise Today: 8:17 PM↑ 111° Southeast
Moonset Today: 5:54 AM↑ 247° West
The last quarter moon for the month will fall on Tuesday July 26
We'll have a New Moon on Tuesday August 2
Today is Flight Attendant Safety Professionals' Day
National Daiquiri Day
National Flitch Day (A piece of wood used for building as well as a slab of bacon)
National Raspberry Cake Day
New Friends Day
Stick Out Your Tongue Day!
It's also…
Martyrs' Day in Burma
Sandinista Day or Liberation Day in Nicaragua
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you! You get to share birthday cake with...
1814Samuel Colt, American businessman, founded the Colt's Manufacturing Company (d. 1862)
1834Edgar Degas, French Impressionist painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d. 1917)
1860Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer (d. 1927)
1883Max Fleischer, Austrian-American animator and producer (d. 1972)
1893Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian actor, playwright, and poet (d. 1930)
1905Edgar SnowAmerican journalist and author
1921Harold Camping, American evangelist, author, radio host (d. 2013)
1922George McGovern, American lieutenant, historian, a U.S. senator and the Democratic presidential
candidate in 1972, was born in Avon, S.D. (d. 2012)
1923Lon Simmons, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2015)
1924Arthur Rankin Jr., American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
1926Helen Gallagher, American actress, singer, and dancer
1948Keith Godchaux, American keyboard player and songwriter (Grateful Dead and Heart of Gold Band) (d. 1980)
1963Garth Nix, Australian author
On this day in history…
1848Women's rights: A two-day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York.
1900The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
1969Apollo 11, with Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins on board, went into orbit around the moon.
1979Sandinista rebels took control of Managua following the flight of President AnastasioSomozaDebayle, completing the defeat of the National Guard and ending the civil war in Nicaragua
1980The Summer Olympics began in Moscow with dozens of nations boycotting because of Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.
1983The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
1984Congresswoman Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York won the Democratic nomination for vice president at the party's convention in San Francisco.
2011Summoned by British lawmakers to answer for a phone hacking and bribery scandal at one of his tabloids, media mogul Rupert Murdoch said he was humbled and ashamed, but accepted no responsibility for wrongdoing.