Today Wednesday, 29th of June of 2016, is the 181th day of the year. There are 185 days remaining until the end of 2016. The sun rose in San Francisco at 5:51 am and sunset will be at 8:36 p.m.
Today we will have 14 hours and 45 minutes of sun.
The solar transit will be at 1:14 pm.
The first low tide was at 1:50 am and the next low tide will be at 1:17 pm. The first high tide will be at 8:10 am and the next high tide at 8:07 pm.
Next New Moon on Monday July 4
The first quarter moon will be Monday july 11
The next Full Moon will be Tuesday July 19
And the last quarter moon will be Tuesday July 26
Today is NATIONAL PARCHMENT DAY –
NATIONAL WAFFLE IRON DAY –
NATIONAL CAMERA DAY –
NATIONAL ALMOND BUTTERCRUNCH DAY
It’s also…
Independence Day in Seychelles
celebrates the independence of Seychelles from United Kingdom in 1976.
· Veterans' Day in the Netherlands
· On this day in history…
· 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
· 1776 – First privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War fought at Turtle Gut Inlet nearCapeMay, New Jersey
· 1776 – Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asís in what is now San Francisco.
· 1895 – Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
· 1956 – The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
· 1972 – The United States Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
· 1974 – Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband, President Juan Perón, had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.
· 1974 – Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
· 1975 – Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of Apple I computer.
· 1976 – The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
· 1995 – Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
· 2006 – Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
· 2007 – Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
· 2014 – The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declared its caliphate in Syria and northern Iraq.
· If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you. You get to share birthday cake with…
· 1900 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French poet and pilot (d. 1944)
· 1901 – Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
· 1919 – Slim Pickens, American rodeo performer and actor (d. 1983)
· 1929 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (d. 2006)
· 1941 – Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (d. 1998)
· 1943 – Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
· 1944 – Gary Busey, American actor
1953 – Colin Hay, Scottish-Australian singer, guitarist, and