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Thursday June 19, 2014

  • 170th Day of 2014 / 195 Remaining
  • Summer Begins in 2 Days

  • Sunrise:5:47
  • Sunset:8:34
  • 14 Hours 47 Minutes of Daylight

  • Moon Rise:12:48am
  • Moon Set:1:17pm
  • Moon’s Phase: Last Quarter

  • The Next Full Moon
  • July 12 @ 4:26 am
  • Full Buck Moon
  • Full Thunder Moon
  • Full Hay Moon  
  • July is normally the month when the new antlers of buck deer push out of their foreheads in coatings of velvety fur. It was also named for the thunderstorms that are most common during this time. And in some areas it was called the Full Hay Moon.
  • Tides
  • High:4:26am/5:36pm
  • Low:10:41am

  • Holidays
  • Emancipation Day-Texas
  • Juneteenth
  • Family Awareness Day
  • Husband Caregiver Day
  • “War is Hell” Day
  • National Martini Day

  • World Sauntering Day
  • Artigas Day-Uruguay
  • Independence Day-Kuwait
  • Labor Day-Trinidad & Tobago
  • Righting Day-Algeria

  • On This Day In …
  • 240 B.C. --- Eratosthenes estimated the circumference of the Earth using two sticks.

  • 1586 --- English colonists sailed away from Roanoke Island, NC, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in America.

  • 1778 --- U.S. General George Washington's troops finally left Valley Forge after a winter of training.

  • 1846 --- The first organized baseball game was played on this day. The location was Hoboken, New Jersey. The New York Baseball Club defeated the Knickerbocker Club, 23 to 1.

  • 1856 --- In Music Fund Hall in Philadelphia, the first national convention of the Republican Party, founded two years before, comes to its conclusion. John Charles Fremont of California, the famous explorer of the West, was nominated for the presidency, and William Dewis Dayton of New Jersey was chosen as the candidate for the vice presidency.

  • 1862 --- U.S. President Abraham Lincoln outlined his Emancipation Proclamation, which outlawed slavery in U.S. territories.

  • 1865 --- It took more than two-and-a-half years after Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation went into effect for Union troops to land in Galveston, Texas. They carried the message of freedom, the resolution of the Civil War between the States, to the many slaves throughout Texas. Union Major General Gordon Granger read General Order #3: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them 
    becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.” The slaves rejoiced with cheers and tears as they learned of their liberation, calling their “day of deliverance,” Juneteenth, a day still celebrated by black families and communities throughout the world.

  • 1867 --- In New York, the Belmont Stakes was run for the first time.

  • 1905 --- Some 450 people attend the opening day of the world’s first nickelodeon, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and developed by the showman Harry Davis. The storefront theater boasted 96 seats 
    and charged each patron five cents. Nickelodeons (named for a combination of the admission cost and the Greek word for “theater”) soon spread across the country. Their usual offerings included live vaudeville acts as well as short films.

  • 1910 --- Father's Day was celebrated for the first time, in Spokane, Wash.

  • 1912 --- The United States government adopted a new rule for all working folks. It established an 8-hour work day.

  • 1917 --- During the third year of World War I, Britain’s King George V orders the British royal family to dispense with the use of German titles and surnames, changing the surname of his own family, the decidedly Germanic Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, to Windsor.

  • 1933 --- France granted Leon Trotsky political asylum.

  • 1934 --- The U.S. Congress established the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The commission was to regulate radio and TV broadcasting (later). 

  • 1936 --- Max Schmeling knocked out Joe Louis in the 12th round of their heavyweight boxing match. The German boxer earned his victory at Yankee Stadium in New York.

  • 1942 --- British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrived in Washington, DC, to discuss the invasion of North Africa with President Roosevelt.

  • 1952 --- CBS-TV debuted one of television’s most popular hits, I’ve Got a Secret. Garry Moore was the first host, from 1952 to 1964. Steve Allen was next (1964 to 1967) and moderated a syndicated version in the 1972-1973 season.

  • 1953 --- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets, are executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. Both refused to admit any wrongdoing and proclaimed their innocence right up to the time of their deaths, by the electric chair.

  • 1964 --- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.

  • 1965 --- I Can’t Help Myself, by The Four Tops, topped the pop and R&B charts. The Motown group got their second and only other 
      number one hit with Reach Out I’ll Be There in 1966. Levi Stubbs, Renaldo ‘Obie’ Benson, Lawrence Payton and Abdul ‘Duke’ Fakir placed 24 hits on the charts from 1964 to 1988.

  • 1968 --- 50,000 people marched on Washington, DC. to support the Poor People's Campaign.

  • 1970 --- Carole King earned her first #1 single as a performer with the double-sided hit "It's Too Late/I Feel The Earth Move."

  • 1972 --- The U.S. Supreme Court rules against Curt Flood in Flood v. Kuhn, denying Flood free agency as a baseball player. Flood was trying to break the reserve clause that had tied baseball players to one franchise since the establishment of professional baseball. 
    Three years later, in 1975, an independent arbitrator ruled in a similar case brought by Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally that the men were free of their contractual obligations and could file for free agency. Today, free agency is as much a part of baseball as Cracker Jack and hot dogs.

  • 1978 --- Garfield came into the world by way of the talented pen of cartoonist Jim Davis. Readers of 41 newspapers throughout the United States were the lucky first-time readers of the Garfield strip.

  • 1987 --- Ben & Jerry Ice Cream introduced a new Ice Cream flavor, Cherry Garcia.

  • 1987 --- The Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law requiring any public school teaching the theory of evolution to teach creation science as well.

  • 1998 --- Switzerland's three largest banks offered $600 million to settle claims they'd stolen the assets of Holocaust victims during World War II. Jewish leaders called the offer insultingly low.

  • 2000 --- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a group prayer led by students at public-school football games violated the 1st Amendment's principle that called for the separation of church and state. 

  • 2008 --- Democrat Barack Obama announced he would bypass public financing for the presidential election, even though Republican John McCain was accepting it.

  • Birthdays
  • Aung San Sui Kyi
  • Moe Howard
  • Lou Gehrig
  • Gena Rowlands
  • Salman Rushdie
  • Phylicia Rashad
  • Ann Wilson
  • Kathleen Turner
  • Paula Abdul
  • Macklemore
  • Wallis Warfield Windsor
  • Guy Lombardo
  • Abe Fortas
  • Lester Flatt
  • Louis Jordan
  • Pauline Kael
  • Spanky McFarlane