Today Tuesday, 27th of September of 2016 is the 271st day of the year.
There are 95 days remaining until the end of the year.
41 days until Election Day.
27 days left to register to vote.
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 7:03 am
and sunset will be at 6:57 pm.
Today we will have 11 hours and 54 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 1:00 pm.
The first low tide was at 3:38 am
and the next low tide will be at 3:58 pm.
The first high tide will be at 10:33 am
and the next high tide at 10:07 pm.
The Moon is 11.6% illuminated, a Waning Crescent moon
Moonrise Today: 3:50 AM↑ 75° East
Moonset Today: 5:24 PM↑ 283° West
New Moon in 3 days on Saturday the 30th of September of 2016 at 5:12 pm
First Quarter Moon in 12 dayson Saturday 8th of October of 2016 at 9:33 pm
Full Moon in 19 days Saturday 15th of October of 2016 at 9:23 pm
Last Quarter Moon in 25 days Saturday 22th of October of 2016 at 12:14 pm
Today is Ancestor Appreciation Day
National Chocolate Milk Day
National Corned Beef Hash Day
National Crush a Can Day
National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
National Voter Registration Day
World Tourism Day
Consumación de la Independencia, the End of Independence War in Mexico
French Community Holiday, celebrated in the French community of Belgium
Meskel is celebrated in the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Church, following Julian calendar
Polish Underground State's Day
World Tourism Day
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your special day with...
1722 – Samuel Adams, American philosopher and politician, 4th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1803)
1840 – Thomas Nast, German-American cartoonist (d. 1902)
1894 – Lothar von Richthofen, German lieutenant and pilot (d. 1922)
1896 – Sam Ervin, American soldier and politician (d. 1985)
1917 – Carl Ballantine, American magician and actor (d. 2009)
1920 – William Conrad, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1994)
1924 – Bud Powell, American pianist and composer (d. 1966)
1934 – Dick Schaap, American sportscaster and author (d. 2001)
1936 – Don Cornelius, American television host and producer (Soul Train) (d. 2012)
1942 – Dith Pran, Cambodian photographer and journalist (d. 2008)
1947 – Meat Loaf, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1963 – Marc Maron, American comedian, actor, and radio host
1966 – Debbie Wasserman Schultz, American politician
1972 – Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress, blogger, and businesswoman
1981 – Sophie Crumb, American author and illustrator
1982 – Lil Wayne, American rapper, producer, and actor
1984 – Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer
On this day in history...
1066 – William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the River Somme, beginning the Norman conquest of England.
1540 – The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
1777 – Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the capital of the United States, for one day.
1822 – Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta Stone.
1825 – The world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, is ceremonially opened.
1905 – The physics journal Annalen der Physik received Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².
1908 – The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
1954 – The nationwide debut of Tonight Starring Steve Allen (The Tonight Show) hosted by Steve Allen on NBC.
1962 – Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
1968 – The stage musical Hair opens at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where it played 1,998 performances until its closure was forced by the roof collapsing in July 1973.
1983 – Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
1988 – National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.
1994More than 350 Republican congressional candidates signed the "Contract with America," a 10-point platform they pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the U.S. House.
1996 -- The Taliban, a band of former seminary students, drove the government of Afghani President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of Kabul, captured the capital and executed former leader Najibullah.
1997 – Communications are suddenly lost with the Mars Pathfinder space probe.
1998 – The Google internet search engine retrospectively claims this as its birthday.
1998Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his record-setting 69th and 70th home runs in the last game of the season.
1999Tiger Stadium closed after 87 years as home of baseball's Detroit Tigers.
2008 – CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk while flying on Shenzhou 7.