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Almanac - Thursday 12/14/17

Chestnuts roasting on an open flame, by flickr user Clayton Parker

Today Thursday, the 14th of December of 2017, is the 348th day of the year

There are 17 days remaining until the end of the year.

7 days until winter begins

327 days until mid-term elections

on Tuesday November 6, 2018

(10 months and 23 days from today)

1055 days until presidential elections

Tuesday November 3, 2020

(2 years 10 months and 20 days from today)

The sun will rise this morning at 7:18 am 

and the sun will set at 4:52 pm.

Today we will have 9 hours and 34 minutes of daylight.

Solar noon will be at 12:05 pm.

The first low tide was at 2:05 am

and the next low tide will be at 3:20 pm.

The first high tide will be at 8:38 am 

and the next high tide at 10:02 pm.

The Moon is currently 12.-% illuminated; a Waning Crescent

Moon Direction: ↑ 111.22° ESE

Moon Altitude: 8.62°

Moon Distance: 248575 mi

Next New Moon: Sunday December 17, 2017 at 10:30 pm

Next Full Moon: Monday January 1, 2018 at 6:24 pm

Next Moonset: Today at 2:59 pm

Today is…

Monkey Day

National Bouillabaisse Day

Roast Chestnuts Day

It’s also..

Alabama Day

Forty-seven Ronin Remembrance Day (Sengaku-jiTokyo)

Martyred Intellectuals Day (Bangladesh)

If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you!  You share this day with…

1852 – Daniel De Leon, Curaçaoan-American journalist and politician (d. 1914)

1896 – Jimmy Doolittle, American general and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1993)

1897 – Margaret Chase Smith, American educator and politician (d. 1995)

1908 – Morey Amsterdam, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1996)

1911 – Spike Jones, American singer and bandleader (d. 1965)

1916 – Shirley Jackson, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1965)

1917 – June Taylor, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2004)

1918 – James T. Aubrey, American broadcaster (d. 1994)

1918 – B. K. S. Iyengar, Indian yoga instructor and author, founded Iyengar Yoga (d. 2014)

1920 – Clark Terry, American trumpet player, composer, and educator (d. 2015)

1922 – Don Hewitt, American journalist and producer, created 60 Minutes (d. 2009)

1924 – Raj Kapoor, Pakistani-Indian actor, director, and producer (d. 1988)

1932 – Charlie Rich, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1995)

1935 – Lee Remick, American actress (d. 1991)

1946 – Patty Duke, American actress (d. 2016)

1947 – Christopher Parkening, American guitarist and educator

1947 – Dilma Rousseff, Brazilian economist and politician, 36th President of Brazil

1948 – Lester Bangs, American journalist and author (d. 1982)

1960 – James Comey, FBI Director

1965 – Ted Raimi, American actor, director, and screenwriter

1970 – Beth Orton, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

And on this day in history…

557 – Constantinople is severely damaged by an earthquake.

1542 – Princess Mary Stuart becomes Mary, Queen of Scots.

1819 – Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state.

1902 – The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.

1903 – The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

1940 – Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.

1955  AlbaniaAustriaBulgariaCambodiaCeylonFinlandHungaryIrelandItalyJordanLaosLibyaNepalPortugalRomania and Spain join the United Nations through United Nations Security Council Resolution 109.

1972 – Apollo programEugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extravehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.

1995 – Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by the leaders of the Federal Republic of YugoslaviaCroatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

2008 – Muntadhar al-Zaidi throws his shoes at then-U.S. President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq.

2012 – Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Newtown, Connecticut