- 139th Day of 2014 226 Remaining
- Summer Begins in 33 Days
- Sunrise 5:55
- Sunset 8:16
- 14 Hours 21 Minutes
- Moon Rise 12:09am
- Moon Set 10:59am
- Phase 80%
- Next Full Moon June 12 @ 9:13pm
- Full Strawberry Moon
- This name was universal to every Algonquin tribe. However, in Europe they called it the 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!
- High Tide 2:21am/4:26pm
- Low Tide 9:14am/9:47am
- Rainfall
- This Year 12.65
- Last Year 16.32
- Avg YTD 23.40
- Holidays
- Man Ray Day
- National Devil's Food Cake Day
- Youth And Sports Day-Turkey
- Holiday Of Poetry-Turkmenistan
- National Vegetarian Week-United Kingdom
- On This Day In …
- 1536 --- Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII, was beheaded after being convicted of adultery.
- 1568 --- After being defeated by the Protestants, Mary the Queen of Scots, fled to England where she was imprisoned by Queen Elizabeth.
- 1588 --- A massive Spanish fleet, known as the "Invincible Armada," sets sail from Lisbon on a mission to secure control of the English Channel and transport a Spanish invasion army to Britain from the Netherlands.
- 1643 --- Delegates from four New England colonies met in Boston to form a confederation.
- 1715 --- The colony of New York passes a law making it illegal to "gather, rake, take up, or bring to the market, any oysters whatsoever" between the months of May and September. This regulation was only one of many that were passed in the early days of America to help preserve certain species. In recent years, endangered species laws have been enacted in order to criminalize poaching for the protection of animals. However, earlier versions of these laws were more concerned with insuring that hunters would have a steady supply of game.
- 1857 --- William F. Channing and Moses G. Farmer patented the electric fire alarm system in Boston, is the first city to adopt the system.
- 1864 --- President Abraham Lincoln writes to anti-slavery Congressional leader Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, proposing that widows and children of soldiers should be given equal treatment regardless of race.
- 1897 --- Oscar Wilde is released from jail after two years of hard labor. His experiences in prison were the basis for his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol(1898). In 1891, the Marquess of Queensbury denounced Wilde as a homosexual. Wilde, who was involved with the marquess' son, sued the Marquess for libel but lost the case when evidence supported the marquess' allegations. Because homosexuality was still considered a crime in England, Wilde was arrested. Although his first trial resulted in a hung jury, a second jury sentenced him to two years of hard labor. After his release, Wilde fled to Paris and began writing again. He died of acute meningitis just three years after his release.
- 1906 --- The Federated Boys' Clubs, forerunner of the Boys' Clubs of America, were organized.
- 1910 --- The Earth passed through the tail of Halley's Comet and nothing happened. There had been dire predictions that everyone would die, and many hucksters sold 'comet pills' to counter the effects of the 'comet gas’.'
- 1928 --- The Pride of San Joaquin Valley was declared the winner of the first frog-jumping jubilee held in Calaveras County, CA. The froggy jumped three feet, four inches, higher than 49 other frogs entered in the contest. The true beginnings of the frog jubilee date back to gold rush days, an event instigated by none other than Mark Twain. The frogs are still hoppin’ each May at the Calaveras County Fair & Jumping Frog Jubilee. Frogs come from all over the world to compete in this, the road to top frog. Incidentally, frogs jump a lot more than three feet today, and for a fair amount of money, prizes and media exposure. The current record is held by ‘Rosie the Ribeter’ from Santa Clara, CA. Rosie made the record-setting 21 feet, 5 3/4 inch jump in May of 1986.
- 1935 --- T.E. Lawrence, known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia, dies as a retired Royal Air Force mechanic living under an assumed name. The legendary war hero, author, and archaeological scholar succumbed to injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident six days before.
- 1935 --- The NFL adopted an annual college draft to begin in 1936.
- 1958 --- Bobby Darin’s single, "Splish Splash," was released as the first eight-track master recording pressed to a plastic 45-RPM disc.
- 1962 --- Marilyn Monroe performed a sultry rendition of "Happy Birthday" for President John Kennedy The event was a fund-raiser at New York's Madison Square Garden.
- 1964 --- The State Department reported that diplomats had found about 40 microphones planted in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
- 1965 --- FBI agents visited Wand Records investigating the lyrics to the song "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen.
- 1965 --- Roger Miller received a gold record for the hit, King of the Road. The song was Miller’s biggest hit record. It got to number four (3/20/65) on the pop charts and stayed on for 12 weeks. It was a number one country music hit (3/27/65) as well. Miller, a country singer, humorist, guitarist and composer from Fort Worth, TX and raised in Oklahoma, went to Nashville, TN in the mid-1950s to begin a songwriting career. He wrote songs and played drums for Faron Young in 1962, then won what was an unprecedented six Grammy Awards in 1965, had his own TV show in 1966 and had five tunes in the top ten in 1968. To top it off, he composed the music for the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Big River in 1985.
- 1967 --- One of the first major treaties designed to limit the spread of nuclear weapons goes into effect as the Soviet Union ratifies an agreement banning nuclear weapons from outer space. The United States Great Britain, and several dozen other nations had already signed and/or ratified the treaty.
- 1973 --- Secretariat won the second jewel of horse racing’s Triple Crown by capturing the Preakness Stakes in Baltimore, MD. The famed horse later went on to win the Belmont Stakes in New York to earn the Triple Crown with jockey Ron Turcotte as the rider.
- 1973 --- Stevie Wonder moved to the number one position on the Billboard pop music chart with You are the Sunshine of My Life. It was the third number one song for Wonder, following earlier successes with Fingertips Pt 2 (8/10/63) and Superstition (1/27/73). He would have seven more number one hits between 1973 and 1987: You Haven’t Done Nothin’,I Wish, Sir Duke, Ebony & Ivory (with Paul McCartney), I Just Called to Say I Love You,Part-Time Lover and That’s What Friends are For.
- 1988 --- In Jacksonville, FL, Carlos Lehder Rivas was convicted of smuggling more than three tons of cocaine into the United States. Rivas was the co-founder of Colombia's Medellin drug cartel.
- 1992 --- The 27th Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits Congress from giving itself midterm pay raises, went into effect.
- 1992 --- U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle criticized the CBS sitcom "Murphy Brown" for having its title character decide to bear a child out of wedlock.
- 1999 --- "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" was released in the U.S. It set a new record for opening day sales at 28.5 million.
- 2003 --- Hundreds of Albert Einstein's scientific papers, personal letters and humanist essays were make available on the Internet. Einstein had given the papers to the Hebrew Universtiy of Jerusalem in his will.
- 2005 --- "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" brought in 50.0 million in its opening day.
- 2007 --- Los Angeles is the first stop on a cross-country road show launched on this day in 2007 by Smart USA to promote the attractions of its "ForTwo" microcar, which it had scheduled for release in the United States in 2008.
- Birthdays
- Pete Townshend
- Malcolm X
- Ho Chi Minh
- Nora Ephron
- Joey Ramone
- Dusty Hill (ZZ Top)
- Jim Lehrer
- Grace Jones
- Johns Hopkins
- Nancy Witcher Astor
- Pol Pot
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Sarah Peale
- Nancy Kwan
- Dorothy Buffum Chandler
- Archie Manning
