June 20 is the 172nd day of the year
There are 194 days remaining until the end of 2016.
In the Northern Hemisphere, the Summer solstice occurs on this date, while the Winter solstice occurs in the Southern Hemisphere.
The sun rose this morning at 5:48 am
and the sun will set at 8:35 pm.
Today we will have 14 hours and 47 minutes of sun.
The solar transit will be at 1:12 pm.
The first low tide will be at 6:20 am
and the next low tide at 6:03 pm.
The only high tide of the day will be at 1:35 pm.
Moon: 99.8% a Near Full Moon, a Waning Gibbous moon
If the sun seems reddish in color, it can be called a Strawberry Moon
Moonset Today: 6:15 AM↑ 246° West
Moonrise Today: 8:47 PM↑ 114° Southeast
Today is...
American Eagle Day
Anne and Samantha Day
Cuckoo Warning Day
International Surfing Day
National Daylight Appreciation Day
National Ice Cream Soda Day
National Vanilla Milkshake Day!
New Identity Day
Plain Yogurt Day
Ride to Work Day
The First Day of Summer
The Longest Day
Toad Hollow Day of Thank You
World Humanist Day
World Peace and Prayer Day
World Productivity Day
World Refugee Day
National Kouign Amann (kweeng ah-mañ) Day
It's also…
Day of the National Flag in Argentina
Gas Sector Day in Azerbaijan
Martyrs' Day in Eritrea
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You and to...
1763 – Wolfe Tone, Irish general (d. 1798)
1819 – Jacques Offenbach, German-French cellist and composer (d. 1880)
1905 – Lillian Hellman, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 1984)
1909 – Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1959)
1924 – Chet Atkins, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2001)
1928 – Eric Dolphy, American saxophonist, flute player, and composer (d. 1964)
1928 – Martin Landau, American actor and producer
1928 – Jean-Marie Le Pen, French intelligence officer and politician
1931 – Olympia Dukakis, American actress
1933 – Danny Aiello, American actor
1942 – Brian Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Beach Boys
and California Music)
1945 – Anne Murray, Canadian singer and guitarist
1949 – Lionel Richie, American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor
(Commodores)
1950 – Nouri al-Maliki, Iraqi politician, 76th Prime Minister of Iraq
1951 – Sheila McLean, Scottish scholar and academic
1952 – Vikram Seth, Indian author and poet
1967 – Nicole Kidman, American-Australian actress
1967 – Dan Tyminski, American singer-songwriter
On This Day In History…
1248 – The University of Oxford receives its Royal charter.
1819 – The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. It is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey is made under sail.
1837 – Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
1840 – Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
1863 – American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
1893 – Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
1945 – The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to America.
1948 – Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, makes its television debut.
1960 – The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
1963 – The so-called "red telephone" link is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1972 – Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
1975 – The film Jaws is released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend of films known as "summer blockbusters".
1979 – ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international outcry against the regime.
1991 – The German Bundestag votes to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
2003 – The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.