May 25 is the 146th day of the year
There are 220 days remaining until the end of the year.
Today Wednesday, 25th of May of 2016,
the sun rose this morning at 5:52 am
and sunset will be at 8:22 pm.
Today we will have 14 hours and 30 minutes of sun.
The solar transit will be at 1:07 pm.
The Moon is 87.2 percent illuminated, a waning gibbous
Moonrise Today: 11:36 PM↑ 112° Southeast
Moonset Today: 9:13 AM↑ 247° West
Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are supposed to visible in the sky tonight
the first high tide was at 1:47 am
and the next high tide will be at 3:59 pm.
The first low tide will be at 8:31 am
and the next low tide at 8:33 pm.
Today is...
National Wine Day
National Brown Bag It Day
National Senior Health & Fitness Day
African Liberation Day in the African Union
First National Government Day in Argentina
Geek Pride Day
Independence Day in Jordan, celebrates the independence of Jordan from the United Kingdom in 1946
International Missing Children's Day
Last bell in Russia, post-Soviet countries
Liberation Day in Lebanon
Towel Day in honor of the work of the writer Douglas Adams
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You, as well as to...
1803 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and philosopher (d. 1882)
1897 – Gene Tunney, American boxer and soldier (d. 1978)
1898 – Bennett Cerf, American publisher, co-founded Random House (d. 1971)
1921 – Hal David, American songwriter and composer (d. 2012)
1929 – Beverly Sills, American soprano and actress (d. 2007)
1935 – W. P. Kinsella, Canadian author and poet
1936 – Tom T. Hall, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1943 – Jessi Colter, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1943 – Leslie Uggams, American actress and singer
1944 – Frank Oz, English-American puppeteer, voice actor, and director
1947 – Karen Valentine, American actress
1949 – Jamaica Kincaid, Antiguan-American novelist and essayist
1953 – Eve Ensler, American playwright and producer
1956 – Sugar Minott, Jamaican singer and producer (d. 2010)
1963 – Mike Myers, Canadian-American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter
1967 – Poppy Z. Brite, American author
1969 – Anne Heche, American actress, director, and screenwriter
On this day in history….
240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
1738 – A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion: Battle of Carlow begins; executions of suspected rebels at Carnew and at Dunlavin Green take place.
1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
1895 – The playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
1914 – The House of Commons of the United Kingdom passes the Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.
1925 – Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee.
1953 – The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
1977 – Star Wars is released in theaters.
1977 – Chinese government removes a decade old ban on William Shakespeare's work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966.
1986 – Hands Across America takes place.
2001 – Erik Weihenmayer, 32 years old, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.