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KALW Almanac: Wed. Nov. 23, 2016

 
Today Wednesday, the 23rd of November of 2016 is the 328th day of the year 
 
There are 38 days remaining until the end of the year.  
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 7:00 am  
and sunset will be at 4:53 pm.  
We will have 9 hours and 53 minutes of daylight. 

Solar Noon will be at 11:57 am.

The first low tide will be at 12:29 am 

and the next low tide at 1:42 pm. 

The first high tide will be at 7:32 am 

and the next high tide at 7:43 pm.

The moon is 29%  illuminated.  

The lunar phase will be a Waning Crescent.

Moonrise Today: 1:32 am↑ 86° East

Moonset Today: 2:07 pm↑ 272° West

We will have a New Moon in 6 days next Tuesday, the 29th of November of 2016 at 4:18 am

The First Quarter Moon of the month will fall in 14 days on Wednesday, the 7th of December of 2016 at 1:03 am

We'll have a Full Moon in 20 days on a Tuesday, the 13th of December of 2016 at 4:06 pm

and Last Quarter Moon of the year will appear in 27 days on Tuesday the 20th of December of 2016 at 5:56 pm

Winter Solstice, the beginning of Winter, the shortest daylight of the year, falls on Wednesday December 21 at 2:44 am

Today is Blackout Wednesday

Dr. Who Day

Eat a Cranberry Day

Fibonacci Day

National Cashew Day

National Espresso Day

National Family Caregivers Day

Tie One On Day

What Do You Love About America Day

Today is also…

Feast of Qawl (Speech) – The first day of the 14th month of the Bahá'í calendar.

International Day to End Impunity

Labor Thanksgiving Day in Japan

Repudiation Day in Frederick County, Maryland, United States

Rudolf Maister Day in Slovenia

St George's Day in Georgia

If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You!  You get to share birthday cake with…

1804 – Franklin Pierce, American general, lawyer, and politician, 14th President of the United States (d. 1869)

1859Billy The Kid , American gunfighter of the Wild West

1876 – Manuel de Falla, Spanish pianist and composer (d. 1946)

1887 – Boris Karloff, English actor and singer (d. 1969)

1888 – Harpo Marx, American actor and singer (d. 1964)

1924 – Colin Turnbull, English-American anthropologist and author (d. 1994)

1925 – José Napoleón Duarte, Salvadoran engineer and politician, President of El Salvador (d. 1990)

1925 – Johnny Mandel, American composer and conductor

1926 – R. L. Burnside, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005)

1936 – Steve Landesberg, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2010)

1950 – Chuck Schumer, American lawyer and politician

1962 – Nicolás Maduro, Venezuelan union leader and politician, President of Venezuela

1971 – Chris Hardwick, American comedian, actor, producer, and television host

1992 – Miley Cyrus, American singer-songwriter and actress

On this day in history…

1644 – John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.

1733 – The start of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West Indies.

1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.

1924 – Edwin Hubble's discovery that the Andromeda nebula is actually another island universe far outside of our own was first published in The New York Times.

1936 – Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success.

1963 – The BBC broadcasts the first episode of "An Unearthly Child" (starring William Hartnell), the first story from the first series of Doctor Who, which is now the world's longest running science fiction drama.

1971 – Representatives of the People's Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time.

1978 – The Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975 goes into effect, realigning many of Europe's longwave and mediumwave broadcasting frequencies.

1981 – Iran–Contra affair: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

1992 – The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.

2001 – The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.

2005 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country.

2011 – Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.