Today is Thursday June 12, 2014
157 day of 2014, 198 remaining
Sunrise: 5:47am
Sunset: 8:32pm
14hours and 45 minutes of daylight today
Moonrise: 8:11 p.m.
Moonset: 5:32 a.m.
Special Celebrations today:
Today is National Peanut Butter Cookie Day, Red Rose Day Jerkky Day and Cachaca Day.
On this day in...
1839: Abner Doubleday created the game of baseball.
1849: The gas mask was patented.
1923:Harry Houdini , while suspended upside down 40 feet above the ground, escaped from a strait jacket.
1939: The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum wasdidicated in Cooperstown, New York.
1963: Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers was fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, Missourri.
1987: U.S. President Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
1999: NATO peacekeeping forces entered the province of Kosovo in Yugoslavia.
2009: In the U.S. the switch from analog TV transmission to digital was completed.
If today is your birthday, you share it with:
David Rockefeller
Irwin Allen
George H W Bush
Vic Damone
Ann Frank
Jim Nabors
Rona Jaffe
Chick Corea
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