Today Monday, 1st of May of 2017 is the 121st day of the year. There are 244 days remaining until the end of the year. It's 554 days (1 year 6 months and 5 days) until the next Congressional Election on Tuesday November 6, 2018. It's 1282 days (3 years 6 months and 2 days) until the next Presidential Election on Tuesday November 3, 2020.
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:12 am
and sunset will be at 8:01 pm.
Today we will have 13 hours and 49 minutes of sun.
The solar transit will be at 1:07 pm.
The first high tide was at 3:37 am
and the next high tide will be at 5:56 pm.
The first low tide will be at 10:25 am
and the next low tide at 10:54 pm.
Moon: 32.5%
Waxing Crescent
Moon Direction: ↑ 346.33° NNW
Moon Altitude: -33.26°
Moon Distance: 229961 mi
Next Full Moon: May 10, 2017 at 2:42 pm
Next New Moon: May 25, 2017 at 12:44 pm
Next Moonrise: Today at 11:13 am
Today is...
Couple Appreciation Day
CSS Reboot Day
Executive Coaching Day
Frequent Flyer Day
Global Love Day
International Workers' Day
Keep Kids Alive Drive 25 Day
Law Day
Lei Day
Loyalty Day
May Day
Melanoma Monday
Mother Goose Day
National Chocolate Parfait Day
National Purebred Dog Day
New Homeowners Day
Phone in Sick Day, Also known as Call in Sick Day
Save the Rhino Day, Also known as Save the Rhinoceros Day
School Principals' Day
Silver Star Service Banner Day
Today is also...
Armed Forces Day (Mauritania)
Constitution Day (Argentina, Latvia), Marshall Islands)
Commemoration of the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat following the foundation of Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti (India):
Gujarat Day
Maharashtra Day
International Sunflower Guerrilla Gardening Day
Lei Day (Hawaii)
International Workers' Day or Labour Day (International), and its related observances:
May Day (beginning of Summer) observances in the Northern hemisphere (see April 30):
Beltane (Ireland, Scotland, Isle of Man, Celtic neopagans and Wiccans in the Northern hemisphere)
Calan Mai (Wales)
Samhain (Celtic neopagans and Wiccans in the Southern Hemisphere)
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your birthday with...
1852 – Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman and professional scout (d. 1903)
1857 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch art dealer (d. 1891)
1864 – Anna Jarvis, American founder of Mother's Day (d. 1948)
1896 – Mark W. Clark, American general (d. 1984)
1907 – Kate Smith, American singer and actress (d. 1986)
1910 – Raya Dunayevskaya, Ukrainian-American philosopher and activist (d. 1987)
1918 – Jack Paar, American comedian, author and talk show host (d. 2004)
1919 – Lewis Hill, American broadcaster, co-founded Pacifica Radio (d. 1957)
1923 – Joseph Heller, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (d. 1999)
1924 – Terry Southern, American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter (d. 1995)
1934 – Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Mexican politician
1934 – Shirley Horn, American singer and pianist (d. 2005)
1936 – Jerry Mander, American author and activist
1939 – Judy Collins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1939 – Max Robinson, American journalist and academic (d. 1988)
1945 – Rita Coolidge, American singer-songwriter
On this day in history….
1328 – Wars of Scottish Independence end: By the Treaty of Edinburgh–Northampton the Kingdom of England recognises the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state.
1786 – In Vienna, Austria, Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro is performed for the first time.
1840 – The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom.
1869 – The Folies Bergère opens in Paris.
1884 – Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States.
1884 – Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
1886 – Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day, culminating in the Haymarket affair in Chicago, in commemoration of which May 1 is celebrated as International Workers' Day in many countries.
1900 – The Scofield Mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
1930 – The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named.
1931 – The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
1933 – The Catholic Worker begins publishing
1948 – The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) is established, with Kim Il-sung as leader.
1950 – Guam is organized as a United States commonwealth.
1956 – The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
1960 – Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
1967 – Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas.
1970 – Protests erupt following the announcement by Richard Nixon that American and South Vietnamese forces would attack Vietnamese communists in a Cambodian Campaign.
1983 – The Sydney Entertainment Centre is opened.
1989 – Disney-MGM Studios opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1999 – The body of British climber George Mallory is found on Mount Everest, 75 years after his disappearance in 1924.
1999 – SpongeBob SquarePants premieres on Nickelodeon after the 1999 Kids' Choice Awards.
2003 – Invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished" speech, on board the USS Abraham Lincoln (off the coast of California), U.S. President George W. Bush declares that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended".
2004 – Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the Irish President in Dublin.
2009 – Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden.