May 31 is the 152nd day of the year.
There are 214 days remaining until the end of 2016.
The sun rose at 5:49 am and sunset will be at 8:26 pm.
Today we will have 14 hours and 37 minutes of sun.
The solar transit will be at 1:08 pm.
The first low tide was at 2:09 am
and the next low tide will be at 1:48 pm.
The first high tide will be at 8:14 am
and the next high tide at 8:42 pm.
Moon: 27.8%, it is a Waning Crescent
Moonrise Today: 2:52 AM↑ 89° East
Moonset Today: 3:29 PM↑ 274° West
Today is…
National Macaroon Day
Today is "National Speak In Complete Sentences Day".
National Save Your Hearing Day
It's also...
The beginning of Gawai Dayak in Sarawak, Malaysia and West Kalimantan, Indonesia
World No Tobacco Day
if today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You get to share birthday cake with...
1819 – Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist, and journalist(d. 1892)
1894 – Fred Allen, American comedian, actor, and radio host (d. 1956)
1898 – Norman Vincent Peale, American minister and author (d. 1993)
1908 – Don Ameche, American actor and singer (d. 1993)
1912 – Alfred Deller, English singer (d. 1979)
1930 – Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, and producer
1938 – Johnny Paycheck, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2003)
1938 – Peter Yarrow, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer. He's the "Peter" in the folk singing group Peter, Paul and Mary
1939 – Terry Waite, English humanitarian and author
1940 – Gilbert Shelton, American illustrator (The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Wonder Warthog, Fat Freddy's Cat)
1948 – John Bonham, English drummer and songwriter. He played for Led Zeppelin (d. 1980)
1965 – Brooke Shields, American model, actress, and producer
1976 – Colin Farrell, Irish actor
On this day in history…
1790 – The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
1854 – The civil death procedure is abolished in France.
1859The Big Ben clock tower in London went into operation.
1913The 17th Amendment to the Constitution, providing for the popular election of U.S. senators, was declared in effect.
1916British and German fleets fought the Battle of Jutland off Denmark during World War I.
1961South Africa became an independent republic as it withdrew from the British Commonwealth.
1962Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel for his role in the Holocaust.
1977The trans-Alaska oil pipeline was completed after three years of work.
1990The sitcom "Seinfeld" premiered on NBC.
1991Leaders of Angola's two warring factions signed a peace treaty, ending a 16-year civil war.
1994The United States announced it was no longer aiming long-range nuclear missiles at targets in the former Soviet Union.
2003Eric Rudolph, suspected in bombings at a Birmingham. Ala., abortion clinic and at the Atlanta Olympics, was arrested outside a grocery store in Murphy, N.C. (He later
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four life terms.)
2005Former FBI official W. Mark Felt stepped forward as "Deep Throat," the secret Washington Post source that helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon during the
Watergate scandal.
2009Dr. George Tiller, a provider of late-term abortions, was shot and killed in a Wichita, Kan., church. (Gunman Scott Roeder was later convicted and sentenced to life in
prison.)