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KALW Almanac ~ Thursday June 29, 2017

Celebratory bomb pops with the cherry blossoms, by flickr user liquidsunshine49

 
Today Thursday, 29th of June of 2017 is the 180th day of the year. 
 
There are 185 days remaining until the end of the year. 
 
495 days until Congressional Elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018
 
1223 days until Presidential Elections on Tuesday November 3, 2020
 
The sun is rising this morning at 5:51 am 
 
and the sun will set at 8:36 pm. 

Today we will have 14 hours and 45 minutes of daylight.

The solar transit will be at 1:14 pm.

The first high tide was at 3:58 am 

and the next high tide will be at 5:42 pm. 

The first low tide will be at 10:26 am 

and the next low tide at 11:29 pm.

The Moon is 34.6% illuminated; a Waxing Crescent

Moon Direction: ↑ 340.75° NNW

Moon Altitude: -45.07°

Moon Distance: 238609 mi

Next Full Moon: Saturday July 8, 2017 at 9:06 pm

Next New Moon: Sunday July 23, 2017 at 2:45 am

Next Moonrise: Today at 12:03 pm

Today is...

Feast of Saints Peter and Paul

Hug Holiday Day

National Almond Buttercrunch Day

National Bomb Pop Day

National Camera Day

National Handshake Day

National Waffle Iron Day

Things that happened on this day in years past

It's also...

Engineer's Day in Ecuador

Independence Day in Seychelles, celebrates the independence of Seychelles from United Kingdom in 1976.

Veterans' Day in The Netherlands

If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You!  You share this day with...

1900 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French poet and pilot (d. 1944)

1901 – Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)

1910 – Frank Loesser, American composer and conductor (d. 1969)

1912 – John Toland, American historian and author (d. 2004)

1920 – Ray Harryhausen, American animator and producer (d. 2013)

1929 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (d. 2006)

1933 – John Bradshaw, American theologian and author (d. 2016)

1941 – Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (d. 1998)

1943 – Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)

1944 – Gary Busey, American actor

1953 – Colin Hay, Scottish-Australian singer and guitarist,

1963 – Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist

On this day in history...

1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.

1613 – The Globe Theatre in London burns to the ground.

1956 – The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.

1956 – Actress Marilyn Monroe married playwright Arthur Miller in a civil ceremony in White Plains, N.Y.

1972 – The Supreme Court ruled the death penalty could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment."

1974 – Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina.

1975 – Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of Apple I computer.

1992 – A divided Supreme Court ruled that women have a constitutional right to abortion, but the justices also weakened the right as defined in the Roe v. Wade decision.

1995 – The shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir docked, forming the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth.

2004 – Randy Johnson of the Arizona Diamondbacks became the fourth pitcher in major league history to record 4,000 career strikeouts.

2006 – The Supreme Court ruled 5-3 that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violated U.S. and international law.

2007 – The Apple iPhone went on sale.

2009 – Financier Bernard Madoff received a 150-year sentence for his multibillion-dollar fraud.

2007 – Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.