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KALW Almanac ~ Tuesday June 27, 2017

Photo_060506_005 taken by flickr user Vinnie Lauria

Today Tuesday, 27th of June of 2017 is the 178th day of the year.
 
There are 187 days remaining until the end of the year. 
 
497 days until Congressional Elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018.
 
1225 days until Presidential Election on Tuesday November 3, 2020
 
The sun has risen at 5:50 am 
 
and the sun will set tonight at 8:36 pm. 
 
Today we will have 14 hours and 46 minutes of daylight. 
 
 
Solar noon will be at 1:13 pm.
 
 
The first high tide was at 2:04 am 
 
 
and the next high tide will be at 4:03 pm. 
 
 
The first low tide will be at 8:45 am 
 
 
and the next low tide at 9:08 pm.

The Moon is 15.7% illuminated; a Waxing Crescent moon

Moon Direction: ↑ 12.88° NNE

Moon Altitude: -38.34°

Moon Distance: 230977 mi

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

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

Next Moonrise: Today at 9:56 am

Today is...

"Happy Birthday to You" Day

Decide to Be Married Day

Helen Keller Day

Industrial Workers of the World Day

International Ragweed Day

National HIV Testing Day

National Indian Pudding Day

National Orange Blossom Day

National Pineapple Day

National Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Day

Sunglasses Day

It's also

Canadian Multiculturalism Day 

Commemoration Day for the Victims of the Communist Regime in the Czech Republic

Day of Turkmen Workers of Culture and Art 

Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Djibouti from France in 1977.

Mixed Race Day in Brazil

Seven Sleepers' Day or Siebenschläfertag in Germany

Unity Day in Tajikistan

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

1838 – Paul Mauser, German weapon designer, designed the Gewehr 98 (d. 1914)

1846 – Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (d. 1891)

1850 – Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-Japanese historian and author (d. 1904)

1869 – Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-Canadian philosopher and activist (d. 1940)

1872 – Paul Laurence Dunbar, American author, poet, and playwright (d. 1906)

1880 – Helen Keller, American author, academic, and activist (d. 1968)

1925 – Doc Pomus, American singer-songwriter (d. 1991)

1929 – Peter Maas, American journalist and author (d. 2001)

1930 – Ross Perot, American businessman and politician

1936 – Lucille Clifton, American author and poet (d. 2010)

1938 – Bruce Babbitt, American lawyer and politician, 47th United States Secretary of the Interior

1942 – Danny Schechter, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)

1953 – Alice McDermott, American novelist

1966 – J.J. Abrams, American director, producer, and screenwriter

1984 – Khloé Kardashian, American model, businesswoman, and radio host

1986 – Sam Claflin, British actor

On this day in history...

1895 – The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.

1969 – Patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, clashed with police in an incident considered to be the birth of the gay rights movement.

1971 – After only three years in business, rock promoter Bill Graham closes Fillmore East in New York, the "Church of Rock and Roll".

1972 – The video game company Atari was founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in Santa Clara, Calif.

1974 – U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.

1977 – France grants independence to Djibouti.

1980 – President Jimmy Carter signed legislation reviving draft registration.

1981 – The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issues its "Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China", laying the blame for the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong.

1985 – Route 66, which originally stretched from Chicago to Santa Monica, Calif., passed into history as officials decertified the road.

1991 – Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War.

1994 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan; Seven people are killed, 660 injured.

2011 – Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was convicted by a federal jury in Chicago of corruption. (He was later sentenced to 14 years in prison.)