June 9 is the 160th day of the year. There are 205 days remaining until the end of the year.
Sunrise will be at 5:48 AM
The Sun will set at 8:31 PM
There will be 14 hours 43 minutes and 2 seconds of daylight today
"Solar Noon" will be at 1:09 PM
The moon will be 56.4 per cent illuminated
it is a Waxing Gibbous moon
1:13AM Moonrise
It becomes a Last Quarter Moon at 8:42 am today
1:16PM Moonset
Tides at the Golden Gate
This morning at05:22 AM4.53 H
Low Tide at 11:32 AM0.11 L
High Tide again at 06:47 PM5.54 H
and Low Tide again early tomorrow morning at 12:52 AM1.54 L<
Today is … Donald Duck Day as on this day in 1934, Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.
Anniversary of the Ascension of King Abdullah II (Jordan)
Autonomy Day (Åland Islands)
National Heroes' Day (Uganda)
1954 – McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army,
lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism
has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough.
Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of
decency?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc6Yo3A7CC8
1967 – Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria
1968 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning
following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
1978 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all
worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men.
1985 – Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon. He will not be released until
1991.
1999 – Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace
treaty.
1970: King Hussein escapes gunman's bullet
King Hussein of Jordan escapes an assassination attempt after gunmen open fire on his motorcade as it drives near his summer palace.
1983: Thatcher wins landslide victory
Margaret Thatcher leads the Conservatives to a landslide second term election victory.
1975: First live broadcast of Parliament
The first live transmission from the House of Commons is broadcast by BBC Radio and commercial stations.
1870Author Charles Dickens died at age 58.
1973Secretariat won horse racing's Triple Crown with a victory at the Belmont
Stakes.
1980Comedian Richard Pryor suffered near-fatal burns at his home when a
mixture of free-base cocaine exploded.
2008Ken Griffey Jr. of the Cincinnati Reds became the sixth player in baseball
history to hit 600 home runs.
Births
On June 9, 1891, Cole Porter, the American composer and lyricist, was born in Peru, Ind.. (d. 1964)
1900 – Fred Waring, American bandleader and television host (Waring's
Pennsylvanians) (d. 1984)
1902 – Skip James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1969)
1915 – Les Paul, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2009)
1916 – Robert McNamara, American businessman and politician, 8th United States
Secretary of Defense (d. 2009)
1922 – George Axelrod, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2003)
1926 – Happy Rockefeller, American philanthropist, 31st Second Lady of the United
States (d. 2015)
1929 – Johnny Ace, American singer (d. 1954)
1934 – Jackie Wilson, American singer-songwriter (Billy Ward and his Dominoes) (d.
1984)
1936 – Jackie Mason, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1943 – Kenny Barron, American pianist (Sphere)
1961 – Michael J. Fox, Canadian-American actor, producer, and author
1964 – Slaid Cleaves, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1981 – Natalie Portman, Israeli-American actress
1981 – Anoushka Shankar, English-Indian sitar player and composer