- 142nd Day of 2015 223 Remaining
- Summer Begins in 30 Days
- Sunrise:5:53
- Sunset:8:18
- 14 Hours 25 Minutes
- Moon Rise:10:14am
- Moon Set:12:18am (Saturday)
- Phase:23%
- Full Moon June 2 @ 9:21am
- Full Strawberry Moon This name was universal to every Algonquin tribe. However, in Europe they called it the Full 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:1:44am/4:02pm
- Low:8:45am/9:15pm
- Rainfall:
- This Year to Date:
- Last Year:
- Avg YTD:
- Annual Avg:23.80
- Holidays
- Harvey Milk Day
- National Maritime Day
- Don’t Fry Day
- National Buy An Instrument Day
- National Vanilla Pudding Day
- National Sovereignty Day-Haiti
- National Unity Day-Yemen
- International Day For Biological Diversity
- World Goth Day
- On This Day
- 1455 --- In the opening battle of England’s War of the Roses, the Yorkists defeat King Henry VI’s Lancastrian forces at St. Albans, 20 miles northwest of London. Many Lancastrian nobles perished, including Edmund Beaufort, the duke of Somerset, and the king was forced to submit to the rule of his cousin, Richard of York. The dynastic struggle between the House of York, whose badge was a white rose, and the House of Lancaster, later associated with a red rose, would stretch on for 30 years.
- 1843 --- A massive wagon train, made up of 1,000 settlers and 1,000 head of cattle, sets off down the Oregon Trail from Independence, Missouri. Known as the “Great Emigration,” the expedition came two years after the first modest party of settlers made the long, overland journey to Oregon.
- 1856 --- Southern Congressman Preston Brooks savagely beats Northern Senator Charles Sumner in the halls of Congress as tensions rise over the expansion of slavery.
- 1868 --- The Great Train Robbery took place near Marshfield, Ind., as seven members of the Reno gang made off with $96,000 in cash, gold and bonds.
- 1906 --- The Wright brothers received a patent their flying machine.
- 1939 --- Italy and Germany agree to a military and political alliance, giving birth formally to the Axis powers, which will ultimately include Japan. Mussolini coined the nickname “Pact of Steel” (he had also come up with the metaphor of an “axis” binding Rome and Berlin) after reconsidering his first choice, “Pact of Blood,” to describe this historic agreement with Germany. The Duce saw this partnership as not only a defensive alliance, protection from the Western democracies, with whom he anticipated war, but also a source of backing for his Balkan adventures.
- 1954 --- Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman) celebrated his bar mitzvah.
- 1955 --- In Bridgeport, CT, a Fats Domino concert was canceled because policed feared a rock 'n' roll riot would occur.
- 1967 --- "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" premiered on PBS.
- 1969 --- A lunar module of Apollo 10 flew within nine miles of the moon's surface. The event was a rehearsal for the first lunar landing.
- 1972 --- U.S. President Nixon became the first U.S. president to visit Russia. He met with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. Although it was Nixon’s first visit to the Soviet Union as president, he had visited Moscow once before–as U.S. vice president.
- 1981 --- "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe was convicted in London of murdering 13 women and was sentenced to life in prison.
- 1992 --- Johnny Carson hosted NBC's "Tonight Show" for the last time after nearly 30 years in the job.
- 2003 --- The final manuscript of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which was annotated by the composer, sold at an auction for $3.47 million.
- 2004 --- Michael Moore’s documentary film Fahrenheit 9/11 beats out 18 other films to win the coveted Palme d’Or, the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
- 2011 --- A tornado devastated Joplin, Mo., claiming at least 159 lives and destroying about 8,000 homes and businesses.
- Birthdays
- Harvey Milk
- Mary Cassatt
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Wilhelm Richard Wagner
- Laurence Olivier
- Sun Ra
- Judith Crist
- T Boone Pickens
- Susan Strasberg
- Richard Benjamin
- Bernie Taupin
- Jerry Dammers
- Morrissey
- Naomi Campbell
- Apolo Anton Ono
Friday May 22, 2015
