Today Wednesday, 14th of June of 2017 is the 165th day of the year.
There are 200 days remaining until the end of the year.
510 days until Congressional Elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018
1238 days until the next Presidential Election on Tuesday November 3, 2020
The sun just now rose at 5:47 am
and sun will set at 8:34 tonight
Today we will have 14 hours and 47 minutes of daylight
Solar noon will be at 1:10 pm.
The first high tide was at 2:37 early this morning
The first low tide will be at 9:23 this morning
The next high tide will be at 4:53 this afternoon
and the last low tide at 9:52 tonight
The Moon is 78.8% illuminated; a Waning Gibbous moon
Moon Direction: ↑ 182.63° S
Moon Altitude: 36.83°
Moon Distance: 245946 mi
Next New Moon: June 23, 2017 at 7:30 pm
Next Full Moon: July 8, 2017 at 9:06 pm
Next Moonset: Today at 10:25 am
Today is…
Army's Birthday
Family History Day
Flag Day
International Bath Day
National Bourbon Day
National Strawberry Shortcake Day
Own Your Share of America Day
Pause for the Pledge Day
Pop Goes The Weasel Day
World Blood Donor Day
Also known as Blood Type Awareness Day
Today is also...
Day of Memory for Repressed People in Armenia
Baltic Freedom Day
Mourning and Commemoration Day or Leinapäev in Estonia
Mourning and Hope Day in Lithuania
Flag Day in the United States
Freedom Day in Malawi
Liberation Day on the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
World Blood Donor Day
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
1811 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author and activist (d. 1896)
1864 – Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (d. 1915)
1884 – John McCormack, Irish tenor and actor (d. 1945)
1904 – Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and journalist (d. 1971)
1909 – Burl Ives, American actor and singer (d. 1995)
1925 – Pierre Salinger, American journalist and politician, 11th White House Press Secretary (d. 2004)
1928 – Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Argentinian-Cuban physician, author, guerrilla leader and politician (d. 1967)
1931 – Junior Walker, American saxophonist (d. 1995)
1932 – Joe Arpaio, American police officer and sheriff
1933 – Jerzy Kosiński, Polish-American novelist and screenwriter (d. 1991)
1942 – Andy Irvine, English-Irish singer-songwriter and bouzouki player
1943 – Spooner Oldham, American organist and songwriter
1943 – Harold Wheeler, American composer, conductor, and producer
1946 – Donald Trump, American businessman, television personality and 45th President of the United States
1947 – Barry Melton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1949 – Harry Turtledove, American historian and author
1961 – Boy George, English singer-songwriter and producer
1969 – Steffi Graf, German tennis player
1970 – Heather McDonald, American comedian, actress, and author
1978 – Diablo Cody, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1982 – Lang Lang, Chinese pianist
On this day in history...
1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army.
1777 – The Stars and Stripes is adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States.
1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: HMS Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 7,400 km (4,600 mi) journey in an open boat.
1846 – Bear Flag Revolt begins: Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
1872 – Trade unions are legalised in Canada.
1900 – Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
1922 – Warren G. Harding became the first president heard on radio, as Baltimore station WEAR (now WJZ) broadcast his speech dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial at Fort McHenry.
1937 – Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
1937 – U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.
1941 – June deportation: the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins.
1951 – UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
1966 – The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("index of prohibited books"), which was originally instituted in 1557.
2002 – Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.