- 136th Day of 2013 / 229 Remaining
- 36 Days Until The First Day of Summer
- Sunrise:5:57
- Sunset:8:14
- 14 Hours 17 Minutes of Daylight
- Moon Rise:11:35am
- Moon Set:12:40am
- Moon’s Phase:36 %
- 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:2:55am/5:19pm
- Low:9:57am/10:57am
- Rainfall (measured July 1 – June 30)
- This Year:16.32
- Last Year:15.6
- Normal To Date:23.34
- Annual Seasonal Average:23.80
- Holidays
- Biographer's Day
- Red Hill Holiday-Russia
- On This Day In …
- 1717 --- Writer Francois-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire, is imprisoned in the Bastille. The outspoken writer was born to middle-class parents, attended college in Paris, and began to study law. However, he quit law to become a playwright and made a name for himself with classical tragedies. Critics embraced his epic poem, La Henriade, but its satirical attack on politics and religion infuriated the government, and Voltaire was arrested in 1717. He spent nearly a year in the Bastille.
- 1770 --- Marie Antoinette, age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.
- 1849 --- The New York City Board of Health is finally able to establish a hospital to deal with a cholera epidemic that, before it ends, kills more than 5,000 people. The rapidly growing city was ripe for an epidemic of this kind because of poor health conditions and its status as a destination for immigrants from around the world.
- 1866 --- Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer.
- 1866 --- The U.S. Congress authorized the first 5-cent piece to be minted.
- 1868 --- The United States Senate failed by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson as it took its first ballot on one of 11 articles of impeachment against him.
- 1914 --- The American Horseshoe Pitchers Association (AHPA) was formed in Kansas City, Kansas.
- 1929 --- The first Academy Awards were presented during a banquet at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
- 1943 --- In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising comes to an end as Nazi soldiers gain control of Warsaw's Jewish ghetto, blowing up the last remaining synagogue and beginning the mass deportation of the ghetto's remaining dwellers to the Treblinka extermination camp.
- 1956 --- Executives from the Detroit-based automotive giant General Motors (GM) dedicate the new GM Technical Center in Warren, Michigan. Costing around $100 million--or about half a billion in today's dollars--to develop and staffed by around 4,000 scientists, engineers, designers and other personnel, the GM Technical Center was one of the largest industrial research centers in the world.
- 1959 --- Berry Gordy started his first record label, Tamla Records, running it out of a house he purchased at 2648 West Grand Blvd. in Detroit, Michigan—a location better known as Hitsville, USA. Over the next three years, Tamla made its headquarters live up to its name, turning out a string of hit records that included "Money (That's What I Want)" by Barrett Strong (1959), "Shop Around," by The Miracles (1960) and "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes (1961)--which is why a young aspiring songwriter named Mary Wells was so excited to be offered a recording contract by Berry Gordy in 1962. The catch was that Gordy wanted to make a record with Wells and issue it on a brand new label that had no identity or reputation in the marketplace: Motown Records. Not really in a position to argue, she signed on as the fledgling label's very first artist, and two years later, Mary Wells gave Motown its first #1 hit when "My Guy" reached the top of the Billboard pop chart on this day in 1964.
- 1965 --- Spaghetti-O's went on sale.
- 1966 --- The album "Blonde on Blonde" by Bob Dylan was released.
- 1966 --- The album "Pet Sounds" by the Beach Boys was released.
- 1968 --- In France, the May 1968 crisis escalates as a general strike spreads to factories and industries across the country, shutting down newspaper distribution, air transport, and two major railroads. By the end of the month, millions of workers were on strike, and France seemed to be on the brink of radical leftist revolution.
- 1969 --- Bassist Jack Cassady (Jefferson Airplane) was arrested for possession of marijuana at the Royal Orleans Hotel in New Orleans.
- 1975 --- Via the southeast ridge route, Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mt. Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. Located in the central Himalayas on the border of China and Nepal, Everest stands 29,035 feet above sea level. Called Chomo-Lungma, or "Mother Goddess of the Land," by the Tibetans, the English named the mountain after Sir George Everest, an early 19th-century British surveyor of the Himalayas. In May 1953, climber and explorer Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal made the first successful climb of the peak. Hillary was later knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for the achievement. Ten years later, American James Whittaker reached Everest's summit with his Sherpa climbing partner, Nawang Gombu. In 1975, Junko Tabei conquered the mountain, and in 1988 Stacy Allison became the first American woman to successfully climb Everest.
- 1987 --- It was a grand day in New York Harbor. Bobro 400, a huge barge, set sail within eyesight of the Statue of Liberty with 3,200 tons of garbage that nobody wanted. The floating trash heap soon became America’s most well-traveled garbage can as it began an eight-week, 6,000 mile odyssey in search of a willing dumping site. Bobro 400 returned to New York Harbor after the lengthy journey -- and brought all that garbage back with it!
- 1988 --- A report released by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop declared that nicotine was addictive in similar was as heroin and cocaine.
- 2005 --- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Michigan and New York could not prohibit people from buying wine online from out of state wineries. Some 23 other states have similar laws that presumably would also be affected by the ruling.
- Birthdays
- Studs Terkel
- Betty Carter
- Liberace
- Anne O'Hare McCormick
- Janet Jackson
- Rep John Conyers
- Peirce Brosnan
- Olga Korbut
- Derba Winger
- Mare Winningham
- Gabriella Sabatini
- Tori Spelling
- William Henry Seward
- Henry Fonda
- Woody Herman
- Billy Martin
- Yvonne Craig
- Jonathan Richman
- Krist Novaselic