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KALW Almanac ~ Wednesday May 31, 2017

macaroons  Get in reeeal close! by flickr user Robyn Lee

Today Wednesday, 31st of May of 2017 is the 151st day of the year.  
 
There are 214 days remaining until the end of the year.  
 
There are 524 days until Congressional Elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018, 
 
and 1252 days until the next Presidential Election Tuesday November 3, 2020.
 
The sun is rising right now at 5:49 am 
 
and the sun will set at 8:26 pm. 
 
Today we will have 14 hours and 37 minutes of daylight. 

Solar noon will be at 1:08 pm.

The first high tide was at 4:20 am 

and the next high tide will be at 6:26 pm. 

The only low tide of the day will be at 11:00 am.

The Moon is currently 39.2% illuminated;

A Waxing Crescent Moon

Moon Direction: ↑ 332.69° NNW

Moon Altitude: -36.46°

Moon Distance: 235548 mi

Next Full Moon: Jun 9, 2017 at 6:09 am

Next New Moon: Jun 23, 2017 at 7:30 pm

Next Moonrise: Today at 12:12 pm

Today is ….

National Macaroon Day

National Meditation Day

National Senior Health and Fitness Day

Necrotizing Fasciitis Awareness Day
(that could either be medical or political)

Shavuot, Also known as Feast of Weeks and Festival of Weeks

Today is, "Speak in Complete Sentences" Day.

What You Think Upon Grows Day

World MS Day, Also known as World Multiple Sclerosis Day

Today is also...

Anniversary of Royal Brunei Malay Regiment in Brunei

The beginning of Gawai Dayak (Dayaks in Sarawak, Malaysia and West Kalimantan, Indonesia)

World No Tobacco Day

If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You!

1819 – Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist, and journalist (d. 1892)

1894 – Fred Allen, American comedian, radio host, game show panelist, and author (d. 1956)

1898 – Norman Vincent Peale, American minister and author (d. 1993)

1908 – Don Ameche, American actor (d. 1993)

1930 – Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, musician, and producer

1938 – Johnny Paycheck, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2003)

1938 – Peter Yarrow, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1940 – Gilbert Shelton, American illustrator

1943 – Joe Namath, American football player, sportscaster, and actor

1948 – John Bonham, English musician, songwriter and drummer (d. 1980)

1955 – Tommy Emmanuel, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist

1964 – Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels, American rapper and producer

1965 – Brooke Shields, American model, actress, and producer

1976 – Colin Farrell, Irish actor

On this day in history...

455 – Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome.

1790 – The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.

1859 – The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time.

1879 – Gilmore's Garden in New York City is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.

1889 – Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

1909 – The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first time.

1927 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.

1977 – The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is completed.