June 13 is the 165th day of the year.
There are 201 days remaining until the end of the year.
the sun rose in San Francisco at 5:47 am
and sunset will be at 8:33 pm.
Today we will have 14 hours and 46 minutes of sun.
The solar transit will be at 1:10 pm.
The first low tide was at 1:35 am
and the next low tide will be at 1:00 pm.
The first high tide will be at 7:14 am
and the next high tide at 8:02 pm.
The Moon is 61.2% illuminated, a Waxing Gibbous moon
Moonrise Today: 2:28 PM↑ 93° East
Moonset Today: 1:58 AM↑ 270° West
Today is Kitchen Klutzes of America Day
Today is Sewing Machine Day
Today is Weed Your Garden Day
Inventors' Day in Hungary
Suleimaniah City Fallen and Martyrs Day in Iraqi Kurdistan
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday also to...
1865 – Willian Butler Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1939)
1892 – Basil Rathbone, South African-American actor and singer (d. 1967)
1893 – Dorothy L. Sayers, English author and poet (d. 1957)
1899 – Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer, conductor, and journalist, founded the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra (d. 1978)
1903 – Red Grange, American football player and actor (d. 1991)
1905 – Doc Cheatham, American trumpet player, singer, and bandleader (McKinney's Cotton Pickers) (d. 1997)
1913 – Ralph Edwards, American radio and television host (d. 2005)
1926 – Paul Lynde, American actor and singer (d. 1982)
1927 – Slim Dusty, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2003)
1931 – Irvin D. Yalom, American psychotherapist and academic
1935 – Christo, Bulgarian-French sculptor and painter
1953 – Tim Allen, American actor and producer
1963 – Audrey Niffenegger, American author and academic
1972 – Kristjan Järvi, Estonian-American conductor
1972 – Natalie MacMaster, Canadian fiddler
1986 – Ashley Olsen, American child actress, fashion designer, and businesswoman
1986 – Mary-Kate Olsen, American child actress, fashion designer, and businesswoman
on this day in history...
1774 – Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
1893 – Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; the operation was
not revealed to the public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
1898 – Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
1900China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Chinese Christians erupted.
1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
1966 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1970 – "The Long and Winding Road" becomes The Beatles' last U.S. number one song.
1971The New York Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers, a secret study of America's involvement in Vietnam.
1981A teen-ager fired six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II during a parade in London.
1983The U.S. space probe Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system as it crossed the orbit of Neptune.
1994A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blamed recklessness by Exxon Corp. and Capt. Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the nation's worst oil
spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
1996An 81-day standoff ended as 16 members of the anti-government Freemen group surrendered to the FBI and left their Montana ranch.
1997A jury voted unanimously to give Timothy McVeigh the death penalty for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2004Former President George H.W. Bush celebrated his 80th birthday with a 13,000-foot parachute jump over his presidential library in College Station, Texas.
2009Incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of a disputed Iranian presidential vote, touching off weeks of mass demonstrations.