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Monday May 20, 2013

  • 140th Day of 2013 / 225 Remaining
  • 32 Days Until The First Day of Summer

  • Sunrise:5:54
  • Sunset:8:17
  • 14 Hours 23 Minutes of Daylight

  • Moon Rise:3:35pm
  • Moon Set:2:48am
  • Moon’s Phase:76 %

  • The Next Full Moon
  • May 24 @ 9:27pm
  • Full Flower Moon
  • Full Corn Planting Moon
  • Full Milk Moon

In most areas, flowers are abundant everywhere during this time. Thus, the name of this Moon. Other names include the Full Corn Planting Moon, or the Milk Moon.

  • Tides
  • High:7:39am/8:00pm
  • Low:1:53am/1:23pm

  • Rainfall (measured July 1 – June 30)
  • This Year:16.32
  • Last Year:15.64
  • Normal To Date:23.42
  • Annual Seasonal Average:23.80

  • Holidays
  • National Quiche Lorraine Day
  • Eliza Doolittle Day
  • National Bike to Work Day
  • National Defense Transportation Day
  • Weights and Measures Day
     
  • Independence Day-East Timor
  • International Virtual Assistants Day
  • National Day-Cameroon
  • Simbi Blqanc-Haiti
  • Popular Movement Day-Zaire

  • On This Day In …
  • 1498 --- Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama becomes the first European to reach India via the Atlantic Ocean when he arrives at Calicut on the Malabar Coast.

  • 1810 --- Dolly Madison, wife of president James Madison, supposedly served the first ice cream at the White House, for a reception.

  • 1873 --- San Francisco businessman Levi Strauss and Reno, Nevada, tailor Jacob Davis are given a patent to create work pants reinforced with metal rivets, marking the birth of one of the world's most famous garments: blue jeans.

  • 1899 --- Jacob German of New York City became the first driver to be arrested for speeding. Mr. German was whipping his taxicab all over Lexington Avenue and being a pain in the neck by going over the posted 12 mile-per-hour speed limit!

  • 1916 --- Norman Rockwell’s first cover on The Saturday Evening Post appeared. The illustration was of a young boy having to care for his baby sibling while his little buddies left him and went off to play ball. The forlorn child pushing a baby carriage tugged at the heart strings of all who saw it. Norman Rockwell drew over 300 covers for The Saturday Evening Post plus covers for Collier’s, American Boy, The Literary Digest, LIFE and others. He also painted the Boy Scouts of America calendar pictorials for 45 years. Four of his famous paintings are The Four Freedoms, used as patriotic posters during WWII. All of his illustrations, including those used in advertising campaigns pictured nostalgic scenes of small-town America (many of Rockwell’s models were his New England neighbors) ... true slices of life captured from a time gone by.

  • 1927 --- ‘Lucky’ Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in New York aboard the small airplane Spirit of St. Louis, en route to Paris, France. Thirty-three and one-half hours later, Charles A. Lindbergh arrived at his destination -- and flew into history.

  • 1932 --- Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland for Ireland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

  • 1939 --- The Yankee Clipper took off from Port Washington, NY, bound for Europe. The plane, the flagship of Pan American Airways, established the first regular air-passenger service across the Atlantic Ocean.

  • 1942 --- "I've Got A Gal in Kalamazoo" was recorded by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra.

  • 1956 --- The United States conducts the first airborne test of an improved hydrogen bomb, dropping it from a plane over the tiny island of Namu in the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The successful test indicated that hydrogen bombs were viable airborne weapons and that the arms race had taken another giant leap forward. The United States first detonated a hydrogen bomb in 1952 in the Marshall Islands, also in the Pacific. However, that bomb--and the others used in tests that followed--were large and unwieldy affairs that were exploded from the ground. The practical application of dropping the weapon over an enemy had been a mere theoretical possibility until the successful test in May 1956. The hydrogen bomb dropped over Bikini Atoll was carried by a B-52 bomber and released at an altitude of more than 50,000 feet. The device exploded at about 15,000 feet. This bomb was far more powerful than those previously tested and was estimated to be 15 megatons or larger (one megaton is roughly equivalent to 1 million tons of TNT). Observers said that the fireball caused by the explosion measured at least four miles in diameter and was brighter than the light from 500 suns.

  • 1960 --- Alan Freed, a disc jockey, was indicted for income tax evasion stemming from payola.

  • 1961 --- A white mob attacked a busload of "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery, Ala., prompting the federal government to send in United States marshals to restore order.

  • 1970 --- "Let It Be," the film by The Beatles, premiered worldwide.

  • 1971 --- The album "What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye was released.

  • 1978 --- Mavis Hutchinson, 53, made it to New York City to become the first woman to run across America. The 3,000-mile trek took her 69 days. She ran an average of 45 miles each day.

  • 1990 --- The Hubble Space Telescope sent back its first photographs.

  • 1995 --- To the likely dismay of Washington, D.C.-bound road trippers hoping for a glimpse of the presidential residence through their car windows, President Bill Clinton permanently closes the two-block stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House to all non-pedestrian traffic as a security measure.

  • 1996 --- In a victory for the gay and lesbian civil rights movement, the U.S. Supreme Court votes six to three to strike down an amendment to Colorado's state constitution that would have prevented any city, town, or county in the state from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of homosexuals.

  • 2006 --- San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds tied Babe Ruth for second place on the career list with his 714th home run.

  • Birthdays
  • Cher
  • Joe Cocker
  • Dolly Madison
  • Jimmy Stewart
  • Honore de Balzac
  • Ron Reagan Jr
  • Gov David Paterson
  • Bronson  Pinchot
  • Midy Cohn
  • Busta Rhymes
  • William Fargo
  • Moshe Dayan
  • William Hewlett
  • Jane Wiedlin