- 159th Day of 2015 206 Remaining
- Summer Begins in 13 Days
- Sunrise:5:47
- Sunset:8:30
- 14 Hours 43 Minutes
- Moon Rise:12:34am
- Moon Set:12:10pm
- Phase:60%
- 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:3:20am/5:07pm
- Low:10:00am/11:03pm
- Holidays
- Best Friend’s Day
- Name Your Poison Day
- Upsy Daisy Day
- Chicken Tetrazzini Day
- World Ocean Day
- Bounty Day-Norfolk Island
- World Brain Tumor Day
- On This Day
- 0452 --- Italy was invaded by Attila the Hun.
- 1864 --- Abraham Lincoln was nominated for a second term as president at the Republican Party convention in Baltimore.
- 1872 --- The penny postcard was authorized by the U.S. Congress.
- 1874 --- Chief Cochise, one of the great leaders of the Apache Indians in their battles with the Anglo-Americans, dies on the Chiricahua reservation in southeastern Arizona.
- 1948 --- Milton Berle hosted "Texaco Star Theater" NBC-TV. It was the show's debut.
- 1948 --- A hand-built aluminum prototype labeled “No. 1″ becomes the first vehicle to bear the name of one of the world’s leading luxury car manufacturers: Porsche. The Austrian automotive engineer Ferdinand Porsche debuted his first design at the World’s Fair in Paris in 1900.
- 1953 --- The Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in the District of Columbia could not refuse to serve blacks.
- 1966 --- The National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL) announce that they will merge. The first “Super Bowl” between the two leagues took place at the end of the 1966 season, though it took until the 1970 season for the leagues to unite their operations and integrate their regular season schedules.
- 1967 --- Israeli airplanes attacked the USS Liberty in the Mediterranean during the 6-Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors. 34 U.S. Navy crewmen were killed. Israel later called the incident a tragic mistake due to the mis-identification of the ship. The U.S. has never publicly investigated the incident.
- 1968 --- James Earl Ray, an escaped American convict, is arrested in London, England, and charged with the assassination of African American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 1968 --- Three days after falling prey to an assassin in California, Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, just 30 yards from the grave of his assassinated older brother, President John F. Kennedy.
- 1969 --- The New York Yankees retired Mickey Mantle's uniform No. 7 during "Mickey Mantle Day" at Yankee Stadium.
- 1982 --- U.S. President Reagan became the first American chief executive to address a joint session of the British Parliament.
- 1998 --- The space shuttle Discovery pulled away from Mir, ending America's three-year partnership with Russia.
- 2001 --- Marc Chagall's painting "Study for 'Over Vitebsk" was stolen from the Jewish Museum in New York City. The 8x10 painting was valued at about $1 million. A group called the International Committee for Art and Peace later announced that they would return the painting after the Israelis and Palestinians made peace.
- 2001 --- Tropical Storm Allison hits Houston, Texas, for the second time in three days. Although Allison never even approached hurricane status, by the time it dissipated in New England a week later, it had killed about 50 people and caused $5 billion in damages.
- Birthdays
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Barbara Bush
- Jerry Stiller
- Robert Preston
- Joan Rivers
- Nancy Sinatra
- Willie Davenport
- Keenan Ivory Wayans
- Lindsay Davenport
- Kim Clisters
- Derek Trucks
- Louisa Tetrazzini
Monday June 8, 2015
