271st day of 2015, 94 remaining
- Sunrise: 7:03am
- Sunset: 6:58pm
- Moonset: 7:38am
- Moonrise: 7:36pm
Tides at the Golden Gate:
- High: 12:01am/12:21pm
- Low: 5:47am/6:19pm
It's...
- Referendum Day in Guinea
- Teacher's Day in Taiwan (coinciding with the birthday of Confucius)
- Czech Statehood Day in, yes, the Czech Republic.
It's also...
- Banned Books Week
- National Chimney Safety Week
- National Fall Foliage Week
- World Hearing Aid Awareness Week
and...
- National Drink Beer Day
- National Good Neighbor Day
- International Right To Know Day
- World Heart Day
- World Rabies Day
On this day in...
1066 - England was invaded by William the Conqueror who claimed the English throne.
1789 - In the U.S., the first Federal Congress passed a resolution that asked President George Washington to recommend to the nation a day of thanksgiving.
1850 - The U.S. Navy abolished flogging as a form of punishment.
1850 - U.S. President Millard Fillmore named Brigham Young the first governor of the Utah territory. In 1857, U.S. President James Buchanan removed Young from the position.
1972 - Communist China and Japan agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations.
1995 - Yasser Arafat of the PLO and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed an accord that transferred control of the West Bank.
Birthday celebrants today include (or included)...
- Confucius 551 B.C.
- Georges Clemenceau 1841
- Kate Smith-Wiggin 1856
- Elmer Rice 1892
- William S. Paley 1901
- Ed Sullivan 1902
- Alfred Gerald Caplin (Al Capp) 1909
- Peter Finch 1916
- William Windom 1923
- Marcello Mastroianni 1924
- Jerry Clower 1926
- Tommy Collins 1930
- Brigitte Bardot 1934
- Koko Taylor 1935
- Bruce Crampton 1935
- Ben E. King 1938
- Charley Taylor 1941
- Grant Jackson 1942
- Joel Higgins 1943
- Nick St. Nicholas (Steppenwolf) 1943
- Helen Shapiro 1946
- Jeffrey Jones 1947
- John Sayles 1950
- Steve Largent 1954
- Janeane Garofalo 1964
- Matt King 1966
- Moon Unit Zappa 1967
- Carre Otis 1968
- Naomi Watts 1968
- Mira Sorvino 1967
- Sean Levert (Levert) 1968
- Mandy Barnett 1975
- Hilary Duff 1987
