Today Wednesday, 21st of June of 2017 is the 172nd day of the year.
There are 193 days remaining until the end of the year.
503 days until congressional elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018 (1 year 4 months and 16 days from today)
1231 days until presidential elections on Tuesday November 3, 2020 (3 years 4 months and 13 days from today)
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 5:48 am
and sunset will be at 8:35 pm.
Today we will have 14 hours and 47 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 1:12 pm.
The first low tide was at 3:55 am
and the next low tide will be at 3:29 pm.
The first high tide will be at 10:48 am
and the next high tide at 9:58 pm.
The Moon is 10.3% illuminated; a Waning Crescent
Next Moonset: Today at 5:58 pm
Moon Direction: ↑ 83.57° E
Moon Altitude: 13.34°
Moon Distance: 224527 mi
We'll have a New Moon on Friday the 23rd of June at 7:31 pm in 3 days
The First Quarter Moon will be in 10 days on Friday the 30th of June of 2017 at 5:51 pm
We'll have A Full Moon on in 18 days Saturday 8th of July of 2017 at 9:07 pm
and the Last Quarter Moon in 25 days on Sunday 16th of July of 2017 at 12:26 pm
Today is...
Atheist Solidarity Day
Baby Boomers Recognition Day
Go Skateboarding Day
National Peaches and Cream Day
National Selfie Day
World Giraffe Day
World Handshake Day
World Music Day; Also known as Fête de la Musique
Today is also…
Day of the Martyrs in Togo
Father's Day in Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Uganda, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
International Yoga Day
National Aboriginal Day in Canada
World Humanist Day
World Hydrography Day
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with...
1732 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German pianist and composer (d. 1791)
1892 – Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian and academic (d. 1971)
1903 – Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist, painter and illustrator (d. 2003)
1905 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author (d. 1980)
1912 – Mary McCarthy, American novelist and critic (d. 1989)
1925 – Maureen Stapleton, American actress (d. 2006)
1932 – Lalo Schifrin, Argentinian pianist, composer, and conductor
1933 – Bernie Kopell, American actor and comedian
1941 – Joe Flaherty, American-Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
1944 – Ray Davies, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1951 – Nils Lofgren, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1953 – Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani financier and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 2007)
1957 – Berkeley Breathed, American author and illustrator
1959 – Kathy Mattea, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1982 – Prince William, Duke of Cambridge
1983 – Edward Snowden, American activist and academic
On this day in history...
1749 – Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
1788 – New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States and is admitted as the ninth state in the United States.
1898 – The United States captures Guam from Spain.
1915 – The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks.
1919 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg general strike.
1940 – The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
1957 – Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female Cabinet Minister.
1964 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, disappeared in Philadelphia, Miss. and were murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, buried in an earthen dam six weeks later. Eight members of the Ku Klux Klan went to prison on federal conspiracy charges; none served more than six years.
1964 – Jim Bunning of the Philadelphia Phillies pitched a perfect game in a 6-0 victory over the New York Mets.
1989 – The Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag as a form of political protest is protected by the First Amendment.
1997 – The Women's National Basketball Association made its debut.
2000 – Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
2005 – Edgar Ray Killen, who had previously been acquitted for the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, is convicted of manslaughter 41 years afterwards (the case had been reopened in 2004).
2006 – Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.
2009 – Greenland assumes self-rule.