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KALW Almanac ~ Tuesday June 20, 2017

Vanilla milkshake: vanilla coconut milk ice cream milkshake with soy whip, taken by flickr user Mackenzie Mollo

 
Summer Solstice will be at 9:24 PM this evening, Tuesday, June 20, the 171st day of the year.  There are 194 days remaining until the end of the year.   504 days until Congressional Elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018 and 1232 days until the next Presidential Election on Tuesday November 3, 2020.  The sun will rise in San Francisco at 5:48 am and sunset will be at 8:35 pm.  We will have 14 hours and 47 minutes of daylight today.

Solar noon will be at 1:12 pm.

The first low tide will be at 3:05 am 

and the next low tide at 2:35 pm. 

The first high tide will be at 9:41 am 

and the next high tide at 9:13 pm.

The Moon is 18.5% illuminated; a Waning Crescent moon

Moon Direction: ↑ 97.73° E

Moon Altitude: 24.87°

Moon Distance: 226971 mi

Next New Moon: This Friday June 23, 2017 at 7:30 pm

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

Next Moonset: Today at 4:47 pm

Today is...

American Bald Eagle Day 

Anne and Samantha Day

Cuckoo Warning Day

International Surfing Day

National Cherry Tart Day

National Daylight Appreciation Day

National Ice Cream Soda Day

National Seashell Day

National Vanilla Milkshake Day

New Identity Day

Plain Yogurt Day

The First Day of Summer Also known as The Summer Solstice and The Longest Day
Observed when the Sun reaches its northernmost point

Toad Hollow Day of Thank You

World Humanist Day

World Peace and Prayer Day

World Productivity Day

It's also...

Gas Sector Day in Azerbaijan

Martyrs' Day in Eritrea

West Virginia Day

World Refugee Day

If today is your birthday, Happy birthday to you!  You share this day with...

1763 – Wolfe Tone, Irish rebel leader (d. 1798)

1819 – Jacques Offenbach, German-French cellist and composer (d. 1880)

1905 – Lillian Hellman, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 1984)

1907 – Jimmy Driftwood, American singer-songwriter and banjo player (d. 1998)

1909 – Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor (d. 1959)

1916 – T. Texas Tyler, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1972)

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

1932 – Robert Rozhdestvensky, Russian poet and author (d. 1994)

1933 – Danny Aiello, American actor

1936 – Billy Guy, American singer (d. 2002)

1942 – Brian Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer

1946 – André Watts, American pianist and educator

1949 – Lionel Richie, American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor (Commodores)

1950 – Nouri al-Maliki, Iraqi politician, 76th Prime Minister of Iraq

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.
 
1837 – Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.

1840 – Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.

1863 – 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.

1895 – The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.

1942 – Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.

1945 – The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the U.S. under Operation Paperclip.

1963 – Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union and the United States sign an agreement to establish the so-called "red telephone" link between Washington and Moscow.

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".

2003 – The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.