Today, Tuesday September 13 is the 257th day of the year.
There are 109 days remaining until the end of the year.
56 Days until Election Day
41 days until the deadline to register to vote, which in California is 15 days before election day -- Monday, October 24th.
The sun will rise at 6:50 AM
and will set at 7:20 PM tonight
We will have 12 hours 29 minutes and 18 seconds of Daylight
Solar Noon will be at 1:05 PM this afternoon
The first low tide will be at 3:31 am
and the next low tide at 3:40 pm.
The first high tide will be at 10:34 am
and the next high tide at 9:46 pm.
The Moon is ___ % illuminated, a Waxing Gibbous moon
We will have a Full Moon in 3 days on Friday the 16th of September of 2016 at 12:05 pm
The Last Quarter Moon will take place in 10 days on Friday the 23th of September of 2016 at 2:56 am
We'll have a New Moon in 17 days on Friday the 30th of September of 2016 at 5:12 pm
and First Quarter Moon of next month will fall on Saturday 8th of October of 2016 at 9:33 pm in 25 days
Today is…
Bald is Beautiful Day
Fortune Cookie Day
International Chocolate Day
Kids Take Over The Kitchen Day
National Celiac Awareness Day
National Defy Superstition Day
National Peanut Day
Positive Thinking Day
Snack a Pickle Day
Uncle Sam Day
It is also...
Día de los Niños Héroes in Mexico
Engineer's Day in Mauritius
Epulum Jovis, celebrated on the Ides of September, during the Ludi Romani in the Roman Empire
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your special day with...
1739Grigory Potemkin,Russian army officer and statesman (they named a battleship, then a movie after him)
1813Daniel Macmillan,Scottish bookseller; co-founded Macmillan Publishing Co.
1819Clara Schumann,German pianist and composer
1851Walter Reed,American pathologist and bacteriologist (they named a hospital after him)
1857Milton Hershey,American chocolate manufacturer
1860John J. Pershing,American commander of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I.
1874Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian-born American composer
1903Claudette Colbert,French-American actress (d. 1996)
1911Bill Monroe,American singer, songwriter and mandolin player, the Father of Bluegrass Music
1914Leonard Feather, English-American pianist, composer, producer, and journalist (d. 1994)
1916Roald Dahl, Welsh-English author, poet, and screenwriter (d. 1990)
1918Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter and conductor (d. 2015)
1922 Yma Sumac, Peruvian-American soprano and actress (d. 2008)
1925 Mel Tormé, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1999)
1939 Joel-Peter Witkin, American photographer
1952 Iyanla Vanzant, American author and educator
1956Anne Geddes, Australian-New Zealand photographer and fashion designer (took pictures of the cutest babies)
1964Tavis Smiley, American talk show host, journalist, and author. You can hear him Fridays at 12 Noon here on 91.7 KALW
1969Tyler Perry, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1977Fiona Apple, American singer-songwriter, producer, and pianist
On this day in history…
1501Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
1788The Congress of the Confederation authorized the first national election and declared New York City the temporary national capital.
1943Chiang Kai-shek became president of China.
1948Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.
1949The Ladies Professional Golf Association of America was formed in New York City.
1956The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
1971A four-day inmates' rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York ended as police and guards stormed the prison; the ordeal and final assault claimed 43 lives.
1971 Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees the People's Republic of China after the failure of an alleged coup. His plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.
1985Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.
1989Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
1990"Law & Order" premiered on NBC.
1993Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords
granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
1996Rapper Tupac Shakur, 25, died at a Las Vegas hospital six days after he was wounded in a drive-by shooting.
1998NBC's "Frasier" won a record fifth consecutive Emmy as TV's best comedy series.
2000Chase Manhattan agreed to buy J.P. Morgan for more than $35 billion, creating the third largest financial company in the U.S.
2001Secretary of State Colin Powell named Osama bin Laden as the prime suspect in the terror attacks on the United States; limited commercial flights resumed for the first
time in two days.
2007The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.