Today is Friday June 09, 2017 The 160th day of 2017-- 205 left Sunrise this morning 5:47 a.m. set: 8:29 p.m. 14:41 hours of daylight Moonrise: 6:00 p.m. set: 4:20 a.m.June’s Full Strawberry Moon got its name because the Algonquin tribes knew it as a signal to gather ripening fruit. It was often known as the Full Rose Moon in Europe and the Honey Moon. It is being called a “minimoon” because it will appear as the smallest Moon of the year as it’s furthest from Earth. What will be more apparent is that it’s the lowest Moon of the year SPECIAL CELEBRATIONS TODAY: Today is :National Strawberry and Rhubarb Pie Day, Lemonade Day, Bananna Split Day, Donald Duck Day, International Archives Day and Toy Industry Day. This day in History: 1064 Coimbra, Portugal falls to Ferdinand, king of Castile. 1534 Jacques Cartier sails into the mouth of the St. Lawrence River in Canada. 1790 Civil war breaks out in Martinique. 1861 Mary Ann “Mother” Bickerdyke begins working in Union hospitals. 1863 At the Battle of Brandy Station in Virginia, Union and Confederate cavalries clash in the largest cavalry battle of the Civil War. 1923 Bulgaria’s government is overthrown by the military. 1931 Robert H. Goddard patents a rocket-fueled aircraft design. 1942 The Japanese high command announces that “The Midway Occupation operations have been temporarily postponed.” 1945 Japanese Premier Kantaro Suzuki declares that Japan will fight to the last rather than accept unconditional surrender. 1951 After several unsuccessful attacks on French colonial troops, North Vietnam’s General Vo Nguyen Giap orders Viet Minh to withdraw from the Red River Delta. 1954 At the Army-McCarthy hearings, attorney Joseph Welch asks Senator Joseph McCarthy “Have you no sense of decency?” 1959 The first ballistic missile-carrying submarine, the USS George Washington, is launched. 1972 American advisor John Paul Vann is killed in a helicopter accident in Vietnam. 1986 NASA publishes a report on the Challenger accident. IF TODAY IS YOUR BIRTHDAY YOU SHARE IT WITH: 1640 Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor. 1672 Peter I, Russian Czar (1682-1725). 1781 George Stephenson, English engineer, built the first public inter-city railway line in the world to use steam locomotives. 1791 John Howard Payne, American playwright and actor. 1865 Carl Nielsen, Danish composer. 1877 Meta Vaux Warrick, sculptor. 1891 Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist. 1901 George Price, cartoonist. 1915 Les Paul, American guitarist and electric guitar innovator. 1916 Robert S. McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense under presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Johnny Depp Natalie Portman Michael J. Fox Tags: almanac
June 09, 2017
