June 2 is the 154th day of the year.
There are 212 days remaining until the end of 2016.
The sun is rising right now at 5:49 am
and sunset will be at 8:28 pm.
Today we will have 14 hours and 39 minutes of sun.
The solar transit will be at 1:08 pm.
the first low tide was at 3:56 am
and the next low tide will be at 3:36 pm.
The first high tide will be at 10:38 am
and the next high tide at 10:09 pm.
Moon: 10.0%
Waning Crescent
Moonrise Today: 4:11 AM↑ 78° East
Moonset Today: 5:49 PM↑ 285° West
Today is…
National Rocky Road Day
National Bubba Day
National Rotisserie Chicken Day
National Leave The Office Early Day
Children's Day in North Korea
Civil Aviation Day in Azerbaijan
Coronation of King Jigme Singye Wangchuck in Bhutan
as well as Social Forestry Day in Bhutan
Day of Hristo Botev in Bulgaria
Decoration Day in Canada
Festa della Repubblica in Italy
International Sex Workers Day
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! Happy Birthday also to...
1731 – Martha Washington, American wife of George Washington, 1st First Lady of
the United States (d. 1802)
1740 – Marquis de Sade, French philosopher and politician (d. 1814)
1840 – Thomas Hardy, English author and poet (d. 1928)
1857 – Edward Elgar, English composer and educator (d. 1934)
1904 – Johnny Weissmuller, Romanian-American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)
1937 – Sally Kellerman, American actress
1941 – Stacy Keach, American actor
1944 – Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and conductor (d. 2012)
1948 – Jerry Mathers, American child actor
1953 – Cornel West, American philosopher, author, and academic
1955 – Dana Carvey, American comedian and actor
1959 – Lydia Lunch, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (Teenage
Jesus and the Jerks, 8-Eyed Spy, Harry Crews, and My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult)
On this day in history….
1835 – P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.
1886 – U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White
House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.
1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law,
granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the
United States.
1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United
Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories &
Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
1997Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.
1999 – The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the
Kingdom for the first time.
2003 – Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European
Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in
Kazakhstan.