Almanac – Wednesday 12/01/21 | KALW
Today is Wednesday, December 1, 2021
December 1 is the 335th day of the year
There are 30 days left until the end of the year.
20 days until Winter begin
The sun rises at 7:07:00
and the sun sets at 16:51:01 pm.
We will have 9 hours and 44 minutes of daylight today.
Solar noon will be at 11:59:00.
The first low tide was early this morning at 1:18 am at 1.46 feet
The first high tide will be at 7:43 a.m. at 6.40 feet
The next low tide at 2:28 p.m. at -0.13 feet
and the last high tide at Ocean Beach tonight will be at 8:55 p.m. at 4.78 feet
The Moon is currently 11.1% visible
a Ascending Descending moon
We will have a New Moon in 2 days on Friday December 3, 2021 at 11:43 p.m.
and there will also be a total solar eclipse on that day.
Today it’s…
Bifocales at Monitor Liberation Day
National Parcel Protection Day
Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting
Today is also …
Damrong Rajanubhab Day in Thailand
President’s first day in Kazakhstan
Freedom and Democracy Day in Chad
Big union party, celebrate the Union of Transylvania with Romania in 1918. in Romania
Military Abolition Day in Costa Rica
Republic Day in the Central African Republic
Restoration of independence day in Portugal
Self-government day or Fullveldisdagurinn in Iceland
On this day in history …
1824 – Presidential election in the United States: No candidate having obtained the majority of the total the electoral college vote in the elections, the United States House of Representatives is responsible for choosing the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
1834 – Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with Slavery Abolition Act, 1833.
1862 – In his State of the Union speech President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the need to end slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
1865 – Shaw University, the first one historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
1919 – Lady Astor becomes the first woman Deputy (MP) to take his seat at UK House of Commons. (She was elected to this post on November 28.)
1952 – The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine jorgensen, the first notable case of sex change surgery.
1955 – American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabamaseamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the racial segregation laws, an incident that leads to the bus boycott.
1990 – Channel Tunnel sections from the United Kingdom and France meet under the seabed.
1991 – Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence of Soviet Union.
2000 – Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as president of mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of federal executive power to an opposing political party following free and democratic elections in Mexican history.
2019 – Arsenal Women 11-1 Bristol City Women breaks the record for most goals scored in a FA Women’s Super League correspond with Vivianne Miedema involved in ten of Arsenal’s eleven goals.
… And if today is your birthday, Happy Birthday! You share this special day with
1761 – Marie Tussaud, Franco-English sculptor, founded Madame Tussauds wax museum (died 1850)
1792 – Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and surveyor (d. 1856)
1886 – Rex stout, American detective novelist (died 1975)
1886 – Zhu De, Chinese general and politician, 1st Vice President of the People’s Republic of China (died 1976)
1896 – Georgy Zhukov, Russian general and politician, 2nd Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union (died 1974)
1913 – Mary martin, American actress and singer (died 1990)
1923 – Dick shawn, American actor (died 1987)
1923 – Stansfield Turner, American admiral and academic, 12th Director of Central Intelligence (died in 2018)
1931 – Jimmy lyon, American saxophonist (died 1986)
1931 – Jim nesbitt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2007)
1933 – Lou Rawls, American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (died 2006)
1934 – Billy paul, American soul singer (deceased in 2016)
1935 – Woody allen, American actor, director and screenwriter
1939 – Lee trevino, American golfer and sports journalist
1940 – Richard pryor, American comedian, actor, producer and screenwriter (died 2005)
[1945[1945 – Bette Midler, American singer-songwriter, actress and producer
1946 – Jonathan katz, American comedian and actor
1946 – Gilbert O’SullivanIrish singer-songwriter and pianist
1949 – Pablo EscobarColombian drug lord and narcoterrorist (died 1993)
1949 РSebastien Pi̱era, Chilean businessman and politician, 35th President of Chile
1951 – Jacques Pastorius, American bassist, songwriter and producer (died 1987)
1951 – Treat Williams, American actor
1958 – Candace Bushnell, American journalist and author
1970 – Sarah silverman, American actress, actress and singer
1976 – Laura Ling, American journalist and author
1988 – Zoe Kravitz, American actress, singer and model