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Wednesday June 10, 2015

June 10 is the 161st day of the year. 

There are 204 days remaining until the end of the year.

The Sun will rise at 5:47 this morning
 
The Sun will set at 8:31 tonight

 The moon is 39 per cent illuminated
waning until it becomes a New Moon on the 16th
Low tide was 12:52 am  1.5

High tide this morning will be at 6:43  at 4.2

Low tide this afternoon will be 12:31  at 0.6

and High tide tonight at 7:36 pm will be  5.8

 Today is… National Yo-Yo Day

 Abolition Day (French Guiana)

 Army Day (Jordan)

 Navy Day (Italy)

 Portugal Day, also Day of Camões (Portugal and the Portuguese communities)

 Reconciliation Day (Republic of the Congo)

 The Queen's Birthday (Solomon Islands)

 

671 – Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock (clepsydra) called Rokoku. The instrument, which measure time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu.

 1801The North African state of Tripoli declared war on the United States in a dispute over safe passage of merchant vessels through the Mediterranean.

 1963 – Equal Pay Act of 1963 aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex (see Gender pay gap). It was signed into law on June 10, 1963 by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program

 1964 – United States Senate breaks a 75-day filibuster by Southern lawmakers against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, leading to the bill's passage.  

 1967 – The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire. 
Israeli forces stop their advance into Syria and comply with a UN ceasefire bringing to an end six days of fighting on three fronts.

 1977 – James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.

1977 – The Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale.

 1999Nato calls off air war on Kosovo.
Nato suspends its 11-week aerial war on Kosovo as Serb troops begin to withdraw.

 2000Syrian President Hafez Assad died at age 69.

 2003 – Wicked opens on Broadway, proceeding to win 40 awards just for the Broadway production.

 2007The final episode of "The Sopranos" aired on HBO.

Births

1895 – Hattie McDaniel, American actress and singer (d. 1952)
1910 – Howlin' Wolf, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1976)
1911 – Ralph Kirkpatrick, American harpsichord player and musicologist (d. 1984)
1915 – Saul Bellow, Canadian-American author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
1922 – Judy Garland, American actress and singer (d. 1969) was born Frances Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minn.
1925 – Nat Hentoff, American historian, author, and journalist
1928 – Maurice Sendak, American author and illustrator (d. 2012)
1931 – João Gilberto, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1965 – Elizabeth Hurley, English model and actress
1971 – Bobby Jindal, American politician, 55th Governor of Louisiana