295th day of the year, with a mere 71 days remaining until the end of the year. 18 days left until Election Day!
- Sunrise: 7:25am
- Sunset: 6:24pm, giving us 10 hours and 59 minutes of daylight
The waning moon is at 71% visibility, rising at 11:44pm.
Tides at the Golden Gate:
- High: 5:18am/4:13pm
- Low: 10:14am/11:02pm
Special International Celebrations today include…
Antilles Day – Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, St. Eustatius
Army Day - Honduras
Overseas Chinese Day - Taiwan
Revolution Day - Somalia
St. Ursula Day - British Virgin Islands
Egyptian Naval Day – Egypt
It’s also…
Celebration of The Mind Day
Global Iodine Deficiency Disorder (IDD) Prevention Day
Mammography Day
Reptile Awareness Day
On this day in…
1797 - "Old Ironsides," the U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, was launched in Boston's harbor.
1805 - The Battle of Trafalgar occurred off the coast of Spain. The British defeated the French and Spanish fleet.
1849 - The first tattooed man, James F. O’Connell, was put on exhibition at the Franklin Theatre in New York City, NY.
1858 - The Can-Can was performed for the first time in Paris.
1879 - Thomas Edison invented the electric incandescent lamp. It would last 13 1/2 hours before it would burn out.
1917 - The first U.S. soldiers entered combat during World War I near Nancy, France.
1918 - Margaret Owen set a typing speed record of 170 words per minute on a manual typewriter.
1925 - The photoelectric cell was first demonstrated at the Electric Show in New York City, NY.
1925 - The U.S. Treasury Department announced that it had fined 29,620 people for prohibition (of alcohol) violations.
1927 - In New York City, construction began on the George Washington Bridge.
1944 - During World War II, the German city of Aachen was captured by U.S. troops.
1945 - Women in France were allowed to vote for the first time.
1950 - Chinese forces invaded Tibet.
1959 - The Guggenheim Museum was opened to the public in New York. The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
1967 - Thousands of demonstrators marched in Washington, DC, in opposition to the Vietnam War.
1980 - The Philadelphia Phillies won their first World Series.
1983 - The Pentagon reported that 2,000 Marines were headed to Grenada to protect and evacuate Americans living there.
1986 - The U.S. ordered 55 Soviet diplomats to leave. The action was in reaction to the Soviet Union expelling five American diplomats.
1991 - Jesse Turner, an American hostage in Lebanon, was released after nearly five years of being imprisoned.
1993 - The play "The Twilight of the Golds" opened.
1994 - North Korea and the U.S. signed an agreement requiring North Korea to halt its nuclear program and agree to inspections.
1998 - The New York Yankees set a major league baseball record of 125 victories for the regular and postseason combined.
1998 - Cancer specialist Dr. Jane Henney became the FDA's first female commissioner.
2003 - The U.S. Senate voted to ban what was known as partial birth abortions.
2003 - North Korea rejected President George W. Bush's offer of a written pledge not to attack in exchange for the communist nation agreeing to end its nuclear weapons program.
Birthday celebrants today include (or included)…
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772
Alfred Nobel 1833
Sir Georg Solti 1912
Dizzy (John Birks) Gillespie 1917
Joyce Randolph 1924
Ursula LeGuin 1929
Georgia Brown 1933
Manfred Mann (Michael Lubowitz) 1940
Francis Fitzgerald 1940
Steve Cropper 1941
Elvin Bishop 1942
Judy Sheindlin 1942
Ron Elliot 1943
Everett McGill 1945
Lee Loughnane 1946
Bill Russell 1948
Benjamin Netanyahu 1949
Charlotte Caffey 1953
Eric Faulkner 1955
Carrie Fisher 1956
Julian Cope 1957
Steve Lukather 1957
Ken Watanabe 1959
Melora Walters 1960
Che Colovita Lemon (Jimmie's Chicken Shack) 1970
Jade Jagger 1971
Jeremy Miller 1976
Will Estes 1977
Michael McMillian 1978
