- 128th Day of 2015 237 Remaining
- Summer Begins in 44 Days
- Sunrise:6:05
- Sunset:8:06
- 14 Hours 1 Minute
- Moon Rise:12:24am(Saturday)
- Moon Set:10:01am
- Phase:
- 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:1:40am/3:49pm
- Low:8:36am/8:44pm
- Holidays
- VE Day
- Iris Day
- Military Spouse Appreciation Day
- National Cocoanut Crème Pie Day
- National Student Nurses Day
- No Socks Day
- Provider Appreciation Day
- Liberation Day-France
- Prent’s Day-South Korea
- World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day
- World Ovarian Cancer Day
- On This Day
- 1541 --- Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi River.
- 1792 --- Congress passes the second portion of the Militia Act, requiring that every free able-bodied white male citizen of the respective States, resident therein, who is or shall be of age eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five years be enrolled in the militia.
- 1886 --- Coca Cola is first sold to the public at Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1899 --- The Countess Cathleen by William Butler Yeats opens at the Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin, the theater’s inaugural performance. Yeats, already an accomplished poet, had been persuaded to help launch the theater by his friend Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory, a writer and collector of Irish folklore.
- 1943 --- The Germans suppressed a revolt by Polish Jews and destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto.
- 1945 --- Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine. The eighth of May spelled the day when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms: In Prague, Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists, after the latter had lost more than 8,000 soldiers, and the Germans considerably more; in Copenhagen and Oslo; at Karlshorst, near Berlin; in northern Latvia; on the Channel Island of Sark–the German surrender was realized in a final cease-fire. More surrender documents were signed in Berlin and in eastern Germany.
- 1950 --- In Nebraska, a flood caused by 14 inches of rain kills 23 people. Most of the victims drowned after being trapped in their vehicles by flash flooding.
- 1956 --- Alfred E. Neuman appeared on the cover of "Mad Magazine" for the first time.
- 1958 --- Vice-President Richard Nixon was shoved, stoned, booed and spat upon by anti-American protesters in Lima, Peru.
- 1961 --- New Yorkers selected a new name for their new National League baseball franchise. They chose the Mets.
- 1963 --- With the release of Dr. No, moviegoers get their first look–down the barrel of a gun–at the super-spy James Bond (codename: 007), the immortal character created by Ian Fleming in his now-famous series of novels and portrayed onscreen by the relatively unknown Scottish actor Sean Connery.
- 1968 --- Jim "Catfish" Hunter of the Oakland Athletics pitched a perfect game against the Minnesota Twins in Oakland.
- 1970 --- Construction workers broke up an anti-war protest on New York City's Wall Street.
- 1970 --- The album "Let It Be" by the Beatles was released.
- 1970 --- President Nixon, at a news conference, defends the U.S. troop movement into Cambodia, saying the operation would provide six to eight months of time for training South Vietnamese forces and thus would shorten the war for Americans.
- 1970 --- The New York Knicks defeat the Los Angeles Lakers in the seventh game of the NBA Finals to win their first NBA championship.
- 1973 --- On the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, armed members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) surrender to federal authorities, ending their 71-day siege of Wounded Knee, site of the infamous massacre of 300 Sioux by the U.S. 7th Cavalry in 1890.
- 1975 --- John Sebastian, former member of the beloved 60s pop group the Lovin’ Spoonful, was asked to write and record the theme song for a brand-new ABC television show with the working title Kotter. As any songwriter would, Sebastian first tried working that title into his song, but somehow the rhymes he came up with for “Kotter”—otter, water, daughter, slaughter—didn’t really lend themselves to a show about a middle-aged schoolteacher returning to his scrappy Brooklyn neighborhood to teach remedial students at his own former high school. So Sebastian took a more thoughtful approach to the task at hand and came up with a song about finding your true calling in a life you thought you’d left behind. That song, “Welcome Back,” not only went on to become a #1 pop single on this day in 1976, but it also led the show’s producers to change its title to Welcome Back, Kotter.
- 1978 --- David Berkowitz pleaded guilty in Brooklyn to the "Son of Sam" killings.
- 1984 --- Claiming that its athletes will not be safe from protests and possible physical attacks, the Soviet Union announces that it will not compete in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
- 1986 --- Reporters were told that 84,000 people had been evacuated from areas near the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Soviet Ukraine.
- 1987 --- Gary Hart, dogged by questions about his personal life, withdrew from the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
- 1990 --- Tom Waits won $2.5 million when a Los Angeles court ruled that Frito-Lay unlawfully used a Waits sound alike in its Doritos ads.
- 2010 --- 88-year-old actress Betty White, known for her former roles on “The Golden Girls” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” becomes the oldest person to host the long-running, late-night TV sketch comedy show “Saturday Night Live” (SNL).
- 2012 --- Josh Hamilton of the Texas Rangers became the 16th major league baseball player to hit four home runs in a game.
- Birthdays
- Harry Truman (33rd President)
- Miguel Hidlago
- Melissa Gilbert
- Edmund Wilson
- Roberto Rossellini
- Sonny Liston
- Oscar Hammerstein
- Robert Johnson
- Don Rickles
- Toni Tenille
- Chris Franz
- Ronnie Lott
