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Friday June 6, 2014

  • 157th Day of 2014 / 208 Remaining
  • Summer Begins in 15 Days

  • Sunrise:5:47
  • Sunset:8:29
  • 14 Hours 42 Minutes of Daylight

  • Moon Rise:2:00pm
  • Moon Set:1:36am
  • Moon’s Phase: 59 %

  • The Next Full Moon
  • June 12 @ 4:26 am
  • Full Rose Moon
  • Full Strawberry Moon
  • Strawberry Moon was universal to every Algonquin tribe. However, in Europe they called it the Rose Moon. Also because the relatively short season for harvesting strawberries comes each year during the month of June . . . so the full Moon that occurs during that month was christened for the strawberry!
  • Tides
  • High:5:35am/6:41pm
  • Low:12:31am/11:48am

  • Rainfall
  • This Year:12.65
  • Last Year:16.36
  • Average Year to Date:23.68

  • Holidays
  • D-Day
  • National Applesauce Day
  • Drive-in Theater Day
  • National Donut Day

  • Dragon Boat Festival-China
  • Flag Day-Sweden
  • Memorial Day-Korea
  • Pushkin’s Birthday-Russia
  • Clean Air Day-Canada

  • On This Day In …
  • 1683 --- The Ashmolean, the world's first university museum, opens in Oxford, England. In 1677, English archaeologist Elias Ashmole donated his collection of curiosities to Oxford University, and the 
    school's directors planned the construction of a building to display the items permanently. Acclaimed English architect Sir Christopher Wren was commissioned for the job, and on June 6, 1683, the Ashmolean opened.

  • 1816 --- Ten inches of wonderful wet, white snow fell this day in New England. It was one of the latest snowfalls ever (or maybe one of the earliest!) 

  • 1844 --- The first YMCA was founded in London by George Williams, a young draper’s assistant who had come to London to learn the drapery trade. At that time, wholesale drapery houses 
    employed large numbers of young men, who were given room and board at their work places. They worked long hours and had poor living conditions. Williams sought permission to hold prayer meetings in his bedroom with other young men who, like himself, shared the Christian faith. Soon, the group expanded, drawing to it young men who were alone and lonely in the City of London.

  • 1899 --- James Ricks patented a rubber overshoe for horses.

  • 1932 --- The first federal tax on gasoline went into effect. It was a penny per gallon.

  • 1933 --- The first U.S. drive-in to show movies was opened in Camden, New Jersey, on Crescent Boulevard. Those first drive-in moviegoers got to see Wife Beware, a flick not destined to be a classic. The screen measured a huge 40 feet by 50 feet and was 
    easily seen by everyone in the first cars in the front to the 500th car in the back row. Everyone (including the whole town) could hear the sound, too ... with a slight delay for the folks in the back row because the sound emanated from speakers mounted next to the screen. Admission was 25 cents per person plus 25 cents for the car, maximum $1.00.

  • 1936 --- The first helicopter was tested in a building in Berlin, Germany
      
  • 1944 --- Although the term D-Day is used routinely as military lingo for the day an operation or event will take place, for many it is also synonymous with June 6, 1944, the day the Allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, beginning the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control during World War II. Within three months, the northern part of France would be freed and the invasion force would be preparing to enter Germany, where they would meet up with Soviet forces moving in from the east. With Hitler's armies in control of most of 
      mainland Europe, the Allies knew that a successful invasion of the continent was central to winning the war. Hitler knew this too, and was expecting an assault on northwestern Europe in the spring of 1944. He hoped to repel the Allies from the coast with a strong counterattack that would delay future invasion attempts, giving him time to throw the majority of his forces into defeating the Soviet Union in the east. Once that was accomplished, he believed an all-out victory would soon be his. On the morning of June 5, 1944, U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe gave the go-ahead for Operation Overlord, the largest amphibious military operation in history.
  • 1962 --- The Beatles auditioned for producer George Martin of EMI Records.

  • 1966 --- James H. Meredith, who in 1962 became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi, is shot by a sniper 
    shortly after beginning a lone civil rights march through the South. Known as the "March Against Fear," Meredith had been walking from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi, in an attempt to encourage voter registration by African Americans in the South.

  • 1968 --- Senator Robert F. Kennedy died at 1:44am in Los Angeles after being shot by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy was was shot the evening before while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination. 

  • 1970 --- CSN&Y's "Teach Your Children" (featuring the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia, on pedal steel guitar) was released.

  • 1971 --- For the last time, we saw Polish dancing bears, a little mouse named Topo Gigio, remembered The Beatles, The Dave Clark Five, the comedy of Jackie Mason, John Byner, Rich Little, 
    Richard Pryor and so many more, as The Ed Sullivan Show left CBS-TV. Gladys Knight and The Pips and singer Jerry Vale appeared on the final show. The Ed Sullivan Show had been a showcase for more than 20 years for artists who ranged from Ethel Merman to Ella Fitzgerald, from Steve and Eydie to the Beatles.

  • 1971 --- John Lennon and Yoko Ono appeared on stage for the first time since 1969 when they join Frank Zappa for a show at the Fillmore East. 

  • 1972 --- David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars" was released. 

  • 1978 --- Proposition 13 passed in California. Voters joined Senator Howard Jarvis in cutting property taxes by 57 percent. This was seen as the birth of a taxpayer’s revolt against high taxes and excessive government spending.

  • 1984 --- Indian army troops fight their way into the besieged Golden Temple compound in Amritsar--the holiest shrine of Sikhism--and kill at least 500 Sikh rebels. More than 100 Indian soldiers and scores of nonbelligerent Sikhs also perished in the ferocious gun and 
    artillery battle, which was launched in the early morning hours of June 6. The army also attacked Sikh guerrillas besieged in three dozen other temples and religious shrines throughout the state of Punjab. Indian officials hailed the operation as a success and said it "broke the back" of the Sikh terrorist movement.

  • 1985 --- Authorities in Brazil exhumed a body later identified as that of Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who conducted medical experiments on inmates at Auschwitz during World War II.

  • 1987 --- Steffi Graf beat Martina Navratilova and won her first Grand Slam title at the French Open in Paris. She is the only player in tennis history to win each of the four Grand Slam titles at least four times [Wimbledon: 7, French Open: 6, U.S. Open: 5, Australian Open: 4].

  • 1988 --- Three 50 pound snapping turtles were found in a Bronx, New York sewage treatment plant. They had probably been pets that were flushed down the toilet when very small.

  • 1998 --- HBO airs the pilot episode of Sex and the City, a new comedy series chronicling the lives and loves of four single women living in New York City.

  • 2004 --- Phylicia Rashad became the first African-American actress to win a Tony for a leading dramatic role for her work in a revival of "A Raisin in the Sun."

  • 2005 --- The United States Supreme Court ruled that federal authorities could prosecute sick people who smoke marijuana on doctor's orders. The ruling concluded that state medical marijuana laws did not protect uses from the federal ban on the drug.
  • Birthdays
  • Paul Giamatti
  • Roy Innis
  • Sandra Bernhard
  • Harvey Fierstein
  • Bjorn Borg
  • Jimmy Jam
  • Colin Quinn
  • Natalie Morales
  • Diego Velazquez
  • Aram Khachaturian
  • Thomas Mann
  • Levi Stubbs (Four Tops)
  • Gary U.S. Bonds
  • Robert Englund
  • Steve Vai