Today Wednesday, 10th of May of 2017 is the 130th day of the year.
There are 235 days remaining until the end of the year.
545 days until Congressional Elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018
1273 days until the next Presidential Election, Tuesday November 3, 2020
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:03 am
and sunset will be at 8:09 pm.
Today we will have 14 hours and 6 minutes of sun.
The solar transit will be at 1:06 pm.
The first low tide will be at 6:07 am
and the next low tide at 5:55 pm.
The only high tide of the day will be at 12:58 pm.
It's a howler! The Moon is currently 99.7% illuminated,
A Near Full Moon, still a Waxing Gibbous moon
Next proper Full Moon: May 10, 2017 at 2:42 pm
Next New Moon: May 25, 2017 at 12:44 pm
Next Moonset: Today at 6:17 am
Moon Direction: ↑ 244.55° WSW
Moon Altitude: 11.10°
Moon Distance: 251255 mi
Today is...
Bike To School Day
Donate a Day's Wages to Charity Day
National Clean Up Your Room Day
National Receptionists' Day
National Root Canal Appreciation Day
National School Nurse Day
National Shrimp Day
National Small Business Day
National Third Shift Workers Day
Occupational Safety and Health Professional Day
Pesach Sheni
Observed the 14th of Iyyar in the Hebrew calendar
Trust Your Intuition Day
World Lupus Day
Today is also...
Confederate Memorial Day in North Carolina and South Carolina
Constitution Day in Micronesia
Flower Festival in Azerbaijan
Golden Spike Day in Promontory, Utah
Independence Day or King's Day, celebrates the declaration of independence of Romania from the Ottoman Empire in 1877.
Mother's Day in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
1788 – Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist and engineer (d. 1827)
1838 – John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1865)
1886 – Karl Barth, Swiss theologian and author (d. 1968)
1888 – Max Steiner, Austrian-American composer and conductor (d. 1971)
1890 – Alfred Jodl, German general (d. 1946)
1899 – Fred Astaire, American actor, singer, and dancer was born in Omaha, Neb. (d. 1987)
1902 – David O. Selznick, American director and producer, who produced "Gone With the Wind" and other highly successful films (d. 1965)
1908 – Carl Albert, American lawyer and politician, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 2000)
1909 – Maybelle Carter, American autoharp player (d. 1978)
1915 – Denis Thatcher, English soldier and businessman, Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2003)
1916 – Milton Babbitt, American composer and educator (d. 2011)
1918 – T. Berry Brazelton, American pediatrician and author
1922 – Nancy Walker, American actress, singer, and director (d. 1992)
1926 – Hugo Banzer, Bolivian general and politician, 62nd President of Bolivia (d. 2002)
1940 – Wayne Dyer, American author and educator (d. 2015)
1946 – Donovan, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
1952 – Sly Dunbar, Jamaican drummer
1955 – Mark David Chapman, American murderer
1957 – Sid Vicious, English singer and bass player for the Sex Pistols (d. 1979)
1958 – Rick Santorum, American lawyer and politician
1960 – Bono, Irish singer-songwriter, musician, humanitarian, venture capitalist, businessman, philanthropist and activist, lead singer of U2
1978 – Kenan Thompson, American actor
and on this day in history….
28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.
1534 – Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.
1774 – Louis XVI ascended the throne of France.
1775 – Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys captured the British-held fortress at Ticonderoga, N.Y.
On May 10, 1869, a golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.
1908 – The first Mother's Day observance took place during church services in Grafton, W.Va., and Philadelphia.
1924 – J. Edgar Hoover was appointed director of the federal Bureau of Investigation - the forerunner of the FBI - a job he held until his death in 1972.
1933 – Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
1940 – British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigned, and Winston Churchill formed a new government.
1941 – Adolf Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, parachuted into Scotland on what he claimed was a peace mission.
1954 – Bill Haley & His Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.
1962 – Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.
1975 – Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder in Japan.
1979 – The Federated States of Micronesia become self-governing.
1981 – François Mitterrand wins the presidential election and becomes the first Socialist President of France in the French Fifth Republic.
1994 – Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
2005 – Germany dedicated a national Holocaust memorial.
2013 – One World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.