Today Monday, 12th of June of 2017 is the 163rd day of the year.
There are 202 days remaining until the end of the year.
512 daysuntil Congressional Elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018.
1240 days until Presidential Elections on Tuesday November 3, 2020.
The sun just rose this morning at 5:47 am,
and sun will set will at 8:33 pm.
Today we will have 14 hours and 46 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 1:10 pm.
The first high tide was at 1:16 am
and the next high tide will be at 3:31 pm.
The first low tide will be at 8:04 am
and the next low tide at 8:04 pm.
Moon is 92.2% illuminated; A Waning Gibbous
Moon Direction: ↑ 203.63° SSW
Moon Altitude: 29.31°
Moon Distance: 249872 mi
Next New Moon: Jun 23, 2017 at 7:30 pm
Next Full Moon: Jul 8, 2017 at 9:06 pm
Next Moonset: Today at 8:34 am
Crowded Nest Awareness Day
Ghost in the Machine Day
Little League Girls Baseball Day
Loving Day
Magic Day
National Automotive Service Professionals Day
National Jerky Day
National Peanut Butter Cookie Day
Red Rose Day
Superman Day
Also known as Man of Steel Day
Today is also….
Chaco Armistice Day in Paraguay
Dia dos Namorados in Brazil
Helsinki Day in Finland
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of the Philippines from Spain in 1898.
June 12 Commemoration in Lagos State, Nigeria
Russia Day
World Day Against Child Labour
Children's Day in Haiti
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with...
1911 – Milovan Djilas, Yugoslav political writer
1890 – Egon Schiele, Austrian soldier and painter (d. 1918)
1892 – Djuna Barnes, American novelist, journalist, and playwright (d. 1982)
1897 – Anthony Eden, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1977)
1915 – David Rockefeller, American banker and businessman (d. 2017)
1916 – Irwin Allen, American director and producer (d. 1991)
1919 – Uta Hagen, German-American actress and educator (d. 2004)
1920 – Dave Berg, American soldier and cartoonist (d. 2002)
1929 – Anne Frank, German-Dutch diarist; victim of the Holocaust (d. 1945)
1930 – Jim Nabors, American actor and singer
1931 – Trevanian, American author and scholar (d. 2005)
1931 – Rona Jaffe, American novelist (d. 2005)
1941 – Chick Corea, American pianist and composer
1941 – Roy Harper, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1968 – Bobby Sheehan, American bass player and songwriter (d. 1999)
On this day in history...
1776 – Virginia's colonial legislature became the first to adopt a Bill of Rights.
1898 – Philippine nationalists declared independence from Spain.
1939 – The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, N.Y.
1942 – Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
1963 – NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith during the Civil Rights Movement.
1964 – Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
1967 – The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
1971 – President Richard M. Nixon's daughter Tricia and Edward F. Cox were married in the White House Rose Garden.
1987 – Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
1990 – Russia Day: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
1991 – Russians first democratically elected Boris Yeltsin as the President of Russia.
1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle "Ron" Goldman are murdered outside Simpson's home in Los Angeles. Her estranged husband, O.J. Simpson is later charged but acquitted by a jury of the murders.
1997 – Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
2002 – The Los Angeles Lakers won a third straight NBA title and Shaquille O'Neal was named MVP of the finals for the third straight year.
2008 – A deeply divided Supreme Court ruled that foreign detainees held for years at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba had the right to appeal to U.S. civilian courts to challenge their indefinite imprisonment without charges.
2016 – Forty-nine civilians are killed and 53 others injured in an attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida; the gunman, Omar Mateen, was killed in a gunfight with police.