Today is Wednesday, the 20th of June of 2018 is the 171st day of the year.
There are 194 days remaining until the end of the year....
139 days until mid-term elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018
(4 months and 17 days from today)
867 days until presidential elections Tuesday November 3, 2020
(2 years 4 months and 14 days from today)
June Solstice (Summer Solstice) is tomorrow, Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 3:07 am here in San Francisco. In terms of daylight, tomorrow will be 5 hours, 14 minutes longer than on December Solstice. In most locations north of Equator, the longest day of the year is around this date.
The sun will rose at 5:48 am
and sunset will be at 8:35 pm.
Today 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 5:34 am
and the next high tide at 7:01 pm.
The only low tide of the day will be at 11:49 am.
The is Moon 50.6% visible; a Waxing Gibbous
Moon Direction: ↑ 312.65° NW
Moon Altitude: -37.07°
Moon Distance: 235187 mi
Next Full Moon: Wednesday June 27, 20189:53 pm
Next New Moon: Thursday July 12, 20187:47 pm
Next Moonrise: Today at 1:30 pm
A medium high pollen count of 6.1 today, rising to a high count of 8.1 by Sunday
Today is…
National Vanilla Milkshake Day
It’s also…
Day of the National Flag in Argentina
West Virginia Day (West Virginia)
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
1763 – Wolfe Tone, Irish rebel leader (d. 1798)
1819 – Jacques Offenbach, German-French cellist and composer (d. 1880)
1909 – Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor (d. 1959)
1916 – T. Texas Tyler, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1972)
1924 – Chet Atkins, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2001)
1928 – Eric Dolphy, American saxophonist, flute player, and composer (d. 1964)
1928 – Martin Landau, American actor and producer (d. 2017)
1928 – Jean-Marie Le Pen, French intelligence officer and politician
1932 – Robert Rozhdestvensky, Russian poet and author (d. 1994)
1933 – Danny Aiello, American actor
1942 – Brian Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer
1945 – Anne Murray, Canadian singer and guitarist
1946 – Xanana Gusmão, Timorese soldier and politician, 1st President of East Timor
1946 – André Watts, American pianist and educator
1949 – Lionel Richie, American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor
1950 – Nouri al-Maliki, Iraqi politician, 76th Prime Minister of Iraq
1952 – John Goodman, American actor
1952 – Vikram Seth, Indian author and poet
1967 – Nicole Kidman, American-Australian actress
1967 – Dan Tyminski, American singer-songwriter
1977 – Amos Lee, American singer-songwriter
…and on this day in history…
1819 – The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. It is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey is made under sail.
1837 – Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
1840 – Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
1893 – Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
1963 – Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union and the United States sign an agreement to establish the so-called "red telephone" link between Washington and Moscow.
1972 – Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
1975 – The film Jaws is released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend of films known as "summer blockbusters".
2003 – The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.