Today is Tuesday, the 19th of June of 2018
It is the 170th day of the year.
There are 195 days remaining until the end of the year....
2 Days until the Summer Solstice
140 days until mid-term elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018
(4 months and 18 days from today)
868 days until presidential elections Tuesday November 3, 2020
(2 years 4 months and 15 days from today)
The sun rises at 5:48 am
and sunset will be at 8:35 pm.
We will have 14 hours and 47 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 1:11 pm.
The first high tide will be at 4:19 am
and the next high tide at 6:10 pm.
The first low tide will be at 10:51 am
and the next low tide at 11:59 pm.
A steady pollen count this week. Today’s at 6.9. Then 7.2 by the weekend.
The Moon is 39.9% visible; a Waxing Crescent
Moon Direction: ↑ 340.28° NNW
Moon Altitude: -42.48°
Moon Distance: 232138 mi
Next Full Moon: Wednesday June 27, 2018 at 9:53 pm
Next New Moon: Thursday July 12, 2018 at 7:47 pm
Next Moonrise: Today at 12:26 pm
Today is…
It’s also….
Day of the Independent Hungary
A number of holidays celebrated on this day in the Philippines: Feast of Forest, Laguna Day, Surigao del Norte Day and Surigao del Sur Day
Labour Day in Trinidad and Tobago
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
1896 – Wallis Simpson, American wife of Edward VIII (d. 1986)
1897 – Moe Howard, American comedian (d. 1975)
1902 – Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and bandleader (d. 1977)
1903 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941)
1914 – Alan Cranston, American journalist and politician (d. 2000)
1914 – Lester Flatt, American bluegrass singer-songwriter, guitarist, and mandolin player (d. 1979)
1917 – Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwean guerrilla leader and politician, Vice President of Zimbabwe (d. 1999)
1919 – Pauline Kael, American film critic (d. 2001)
1928 – Nancy Marchand, American actress (d. 2000)
1945 – Radovan Karadžić, Serbian-Bosnian politician and convicted war criminal, 1st President of Republika Srpska
1945 – Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, Nobel Prize laureate
1945 – Tobias Wolff, American short story writer, memoirist, and novelist
1947 – Salman Rushdie, Indian-English novelist and essayist
1948 – Nick Drake, English singer-songwriter (d. 1974)
1948 – Phylicia Rashad, American actress
1950 – Ann Wilson, American singer-songwriter and musician
1962 – Paula Abdul, American singer-songwriter, dancer, actress, and presenter
1963 – Laura Ingraham, American radio host and author
1964 – Boris Johnson, British journalist and politician, Mayor of London
1978 – Zoe Saldana, American actress
1983 – Macklemore, American rapper
…and on this day in history…
1865 – Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 41 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
1934 – The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
1949 – The first ever NASCAR race was held at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
1953 – Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
1964 – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
1965 – Nguyễn Cao Kỳ becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu becomes the figurehead chief of state.
1978 – Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.
1990 – The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.