Today Wednesday, 17th of August of 2016 is the 230th day of the year
There are 136 days remaining until the end of the year.
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:28 am
and sunset will be at 7:59 pm.
Today we will have 13 hours and 31 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 1:14 pm.
The next low tide at 5:23 pm.
The first high tide will be at 12:26 pm
and the next high tide at 11:37 pm.
The Moon almost full, at 99.0% illuminated, still a Waxing Gibbous moon
Moonrise Today: 7:37 PM↑ 106° East
Moonset Today: 5:41 AM↑ 252° West
We will have a full moon early tomorrow morning Thursday, Aug 18 at 2:26 AM
Today is Balloon Airmail Day
National #2 Pencil Day
National Black Cat Appreciation Day
National Medical Dosimetrist Day
National Thrift Shop Day
National Vanilla Custard Day
It's also...
Engineer's Day in Colombia
Flag Day in Bolivia
Independence Day celebrates the proclamation of Indonesia's independence from Japan in 1945.
Prekmurje Union Day in Slovenia
San Martin Day in Argentina
Discovery Day in the Yukon Territory of Canada
On this day in history...
1953Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California.
1959Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, the much acclaimed and highly influential best selling jazz recording of all time, is released.
1969The Woodstock Music and Art Fair concluded near Bethel, N.Y.
1982The first compact discs (CDs) are released to the public in Germany.
2008American swimmer Michael Phelps and three teammates won the 400-meter medley relay for Phelps' record-breaking eighth gold medal at the Beijing Olympics.
2010A mistrial was declared on 23 corruption charges against ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. (He was convicted of 17 counts of corruption in a retrial.)
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! And Happy Birthday to...
1786 – Davy Crockett, American soldier and politician (d. 1836)
1887 – Marcus Garvey, Jamaican journalist and activist, founded Black Star Line as well as the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
1888 – Monty Woolley, American actor and singer (d. 1963)
1893 – Mae West, American actress, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1980)
1929Francis Gary PowersAmerican U-2 pilot; shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960
1932 – V. S. Naipaul, Trinidadian-English journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate
1936 – Floyd Red Crow Westerman, American actor, singer, and activist (d. 2007)
1939 – Luther Allison, American singer and guitarist (d. 1997)
1943 – Robert De Niro, American actor, entrepreneur, director, and producer
1943 – Dave "Snaker" Ray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Koerner, Ray & Glover) (d. 2002)
1944 – Larry Ellison, American businessman, co-founded the Oracle Corporation
1948 – Rod MacDonald, American singer-songwriter
1949 – Sue Draheim, American fiddler and composer (d. 2013)
1958 – Belinda Carlisle, American singer-songwriter (The Go-Go's)
1959 – Jonathan Franzen, American author and critic
1959 – David Koresh, American cult leader (d. 1993)
1959 – Eric Schlosser, American journalist and author
1960 – Sean Penn, American actor, director, and political activist