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Almanac - Tuesday 6/26/18

Chocolate Pudding, by flickr user Meal Makeover Moms

Today Tuesday, the 26th of June of 2018 is the 177th day of the year.

There are 188 days remaining until the end of the year.

88 days until autumn begins ...

133 days until mid-terms Tuesday November 6, 2018

(4 months and 11 days from today)

861 days until the next presidential election Tuesday November 3, 2020

(2 years 4 months and 8 days from today)

The sun rose this morning at 5:50 am 

and sunset will be at 8:36 pm.

Today we will have 14 hours and 46 minutes of daylight.

Solar noon will be at 1:13 pm.

The first low tide was at 5:21am 

and the next low tide at 4:53 pm.

The first high tide will be at 12:27 pm

and the next high tide at 11:02 pm.

Pollen count will be in medium numbers 5.3 today, a low number of 4.9 tomorrow, then rising and evening out towards 5.5 by this weekend

The Moon is 97.2% visible; a Waxing Gibbous moon

Moon Direction:↑ 246.87° WSW

Moon Altitude:-1.06°

Moon Distance:249629 mi

Next Full Moon: Tomorrow Wednesday June 27, 2018 at 9:53 pm

It will be A Strawberry Moon.

Next New Moon: Thursday July 12, 2018 at 7:47 pm

Next Moonrise: Today at 7:25 pm

Today is…

Beautician's Day

Forgiveness Day

National Canoe Day

National Chocolate Pudding Day

Tropical Cocktails Day

It’s also…

Army and Navy Day in Azerbaijan

Flag Day in Romania

Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Madagascar from France in 1960.

Independence Day, celebrates the independence of British Somaliland from the British in 1960.

International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking

International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

Ratcatcher's Day in Hamelin, Germany

Sunthorn Phu Day in Thailand

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

1892 – Pearl S. Buck, American novelist, essayist, short story writer Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)

1898 – Willy Messerschmitt, German engineer and businessman (d. 1978)

1903 – Big Bill Broonzy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1958)

1904 – Peter Lorre, Slovak-American actor and singer (d. 1964)

1908 – Salvador Allende, Chilean physician and politician, 29th President of Chile (d. 1973)

1909 – Colonel Tom Parker, Dutch-American talent manager (d. 1997)

1916 – Virginia Satir, American psychotherapist and author (d. 1988)

1929 – Milton Glaser, American illustrator and graphic designer

1933 – Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (d. 2014)

1934 – Dave Grusin, American pianist and composer

1942 – Gilberto Gil, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and politician, Brazilian Minister of Culture

1956 – Chris Isaak, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

1970 – Sean Hayes, American actor

1974 – Derek Jeter, American baseball player

1993 – Ariana Grande, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress

…and in this day in history….

1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.

1886 – Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.

1906 – The first Grand Prix motor racing event held.

1909 – The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.

1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.

1934 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.

1936 – Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.

1945 – The United Nations Charter is signed by 50 Allied nations in San Francisco, California.

1948 – William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.

1948 – Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.

1953 – Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.

1963 – Cold War: U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.

1967 – Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II) made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.

1974 – The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.

1975 – Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South DakotaLeonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.

1977 – Elvis Presley held his final concert in Indianapolis, Indiana at Market Square Arena

1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

2013 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5–4, that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

2015 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5–4, that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.