- 173rd Day of 2015 192Remaining
- Autumn Begins in 93 Days
- Sunrise:5:48
- Sunset:8:35
- 14 Hours 47 Minutes
- Moon Rise:11:46AM
- Moon Set:12:01AM
- Phase:
- Full Moon June 2 @ 9:21am
- Full Strawberry Moon This name was universal to every Algonquin tribe. However, in Europe they called it the Full Rose Moon. Also because the relatively short season for harvesting strawberries comes each year during the month of June . . . so the full Moon that occurs during that month was christened for the strawberry!
- Tides
- High:2;50AM/4:45PM
- Low:9:38AM/10:48PM
- Holidays
- National Chocolate Éclair Day
- National Onion Rings Day
- Stupid Guy Thing Day
- Schoolteacher’s Day-El Salvador
- On This Day
- 1611 --- After spending a winter trapped by ice in present-day Hudson Bay, the starving crew of the Discovery mutinies against its captain, English navigator Henry Hudson, and sets him, his teenage son, and seven supporters adrift in a small, open boat.
- 1633 --- Galileo was forced by the Inquisition in Rome to renounce his theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun.
- 1815 --- Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated for the second time.
- 1909 --- The first transcontinental auto race ended in Seattle.
- 1938 --- Heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis knocked out Max Schmeling of Germany in the first round of their rematch in New York City's Yankee Stadium.
- 1940 --- During World War II, Adolf Hitler gained a stunning victory as France was forced to sign an armistice eight days after German forces overran Paris.
- 1944 --- President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the GI Bill of Rights, authorizing a broad package of benefits for World War II veterans.
- 1963 --- "Fingertips - Pt 2," by Stevie Wonder, was released.
- 1964 --- The U.S. Supreme Court voted that Henry Miller's book, "Tropic of Cancer", could not be banned.
- 1969 --- Blind Faith's first and only LP was released.
- 1970 --- President Richard Nixon signed a measure lowering the voting age to 18.
- 1986 --- Diego Maradona scored both goals in Argentina's 2-1 World Cup quarterfinal victory over England in Mexico City – including one that he punched in, unseen by the referee. When asked about the play later, Maradona said, "It was the hand of God."
- 1989 --- After nearly 15 years of civil war, opposing factions in Angola agree to a cease-fire to end a conflict that had claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.
- 1992 --- The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that hate-crime laws that ban cross-burning and similar expressions of racial bias violated free-speech rights.
- 2001 --- “The Fast and the Furious,” a crime drama based in the underground world of street racing in Southern California, debuts in theaters across the United States.
- 2011 --- After 16 years on the run from law enforcement, James “Whitey” Bulger, a violent Boston mob boss wanted for 19 murders, is arrested in Santa Monica, California
- Birthdays
- Erich Maria Remarque
- Carl Hubbell
- Freddie Prinze
- Annn Morrow Lindberg
- Mary Livingstone
- Kris Kristofferson
- Klaus Maria Brandauer
- Todd Rungren
- Meryl Streep
- Graham Greene
- Cyndi Lauper
- Dan Brown
Monday June 22, 2015
