Today Wednesday, 13th of July of 2016 is the 195th day of the year.
There are 171 days remaining until the end of 2016
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:00 am
and sunset will be at 8:32 pm.
Today we will have 14 hours and 32 minutes of sun.
The solar transit will be at 1:16 pm.
The first low tide was at 1:48 am
and the next low tide will be at 1:03 pm.
The first high tide will be at 8:04 am
and the next high tide at 7:44 pm.
Moon is 63.9% illuminated…a Waxing Gibbous moon…
Moonrise Today: 3:03 PM↑ 105° East
Moonset Today: 1:32 AM↑ 258° West
We will have a full moon on Tuesday July 19
The last quarter moon of the month will be on Tuesday July 26
We'll have a new moon on Tuesday August 2
Today is…
Barbershop Music Appreciation Day!
Bean 'n' Franks Day
Embrace Your Geekness Day
Fool's Paradise Day
Go West Day
Gruntled Workers Day
National French Fries Day!
Today is also…
Feast of Kalimát, first day of the seventh month of the Bahá'í calendar. for those in the Bahá'í Faith
Statehood Day in Montenegro
The last day of Naadam in Mongolia
Kashmir Martyrs' Day in Pakistan
on this day in history…
On July 13, 1977, a 25-hour blackout hit the New York City area after lightning struck upstate power lines.
1793French revolutionary writer Jean Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday, who was executed four days later.
1863Rioting against the Civil War military draft erupted in New York City; about 1,000 people died over three days.
1923A sign consisting of 50-foot-tall letters spelling out "HOLLYWOODLAND" was dedicated in the Hollywood Hills to promote a subdivision (the last four letters were removed in 1949)
1939Frank Sinatra made his first commercial recording, "From the Bottom of My Heart" and "Melancholy Mood," with Harry James and his Orchestra for the Brunswick label.
1985Live Aid, a concert to raise money for Africa's starving people, was held in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney, Australia.
1814 – The Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, is established.
1973 – Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the "Nixon tapes" to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break-in.
2016 – Theresa May succeeds David Cameron as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; she is the second female Prime Minister, after Margaret Thatcher.
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you! You get to share your special day with…
1921 - Charles Scribner, Jr. American book publisher (d.1995)
1913 – Dave Garroway, American journalist and actor (d. 1982)
1928 – Bob Crane, American actor (d. 1978)
1934 – Peter Gzowski, Canadian journalist and academic (d. 2002)
1934 – Wole Soyinka, Nigerian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
1935 – Jack Kemp, American football player and politician, 9th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (d. 2009)
1936 – Albert Ayler, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1970)
1940 – Paul Prudhomme, American chef and author (d. 2015)
1940 – Patrick Stewart, English actor, director, and producer
1942 – Harrison Ford, American actor and producer
1942 – Roger McGuinn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Byrds and Chad Mitchell Trio)
1946 – Cheech Marin, American actor and comedian
1962 – Rhonda Vincent, American singer-songwriter and mandolin player
1965 – Eileen Ivers, American fiddler (Cherish the Ladies)