- 162nd Day of 2014 / 203 Remaining
- Summer Begins in 10 Days
- Sunrise:5:47
- Sunset:8:31
- 14 Hours 44 Minutes of Daylight
- Moon Rise:7:08pm
- Moon Set:4:40am
- Moon’s Phase: 97 %
- The Next Full Moon
- June 12 @ 4:26 am
- Full Rose Moon
- Full Strawberry Moon
- Strawberry Moon was universal to every Algonquin tribe. However, in Europe they called it the Rose Moon. Also because the relatively short season for harvesting strawberries comes each year during the month of June . . . so the full Moon that occurs during that month was christened for the strawberry!
- Tides
- High:11:09am/10:01pm
- Low:4:18am/3:53pm
- Rainfall
- This Year:12.65
- Last Year:16.36
- Average Year to Date:23.73162nd
- Holidays
- National German Chocolate Day
- National Cotton Candy Day
- Corn on the Cob Day
- Royal Hot Dog Day
- King Kamehameha I Day-Hawai’i
- National Day-Libya
- On This Day In …
- 1509 --- King Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon, the first of six wives he will have in his lifetime. When Catherine failed to produce a male heir, Henry divorced her against the will of the Roman Catholic Church, thus precipitating the Protestant Reformation in England.
- 1742 --- Benjamin Franklin invented the Franklin Stove. He purposely did not patent it, so that others could freely copy the design.
- 1776 --- The Continental Congress selects Thomas Jefferson of Virginia,John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Connecticut and Robert R. Livingston of New York to draft a declaration of independence.
- 1798 --- Napoleon Bonaparte took the island of Malta.
- 1895 -- Charles E. Duryea received the first U.S. patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-driven automobile.
- 1912 --- 24 year-old Silas Christofferson flew a 'Curtis pusher' airplane (the propeller was in the rear) from the roof of the 12 story Multnomah Hotel in Portland, Oregon. The first person to fly a plane off the roof of a hotel.
- 1919 --- Sir Barton won the Belmont Stakes in New York to become the first horse to capture the Triple Crown. It was on this day that the Belmont Stakes was first run as part of thoroughbred racing’s most prestigious trio of events.
- 1939 --- The King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon; later known as the Queen Mother) of Great Britain were in America to visit with President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. As is befitting of such a grand event, the King and Queen were fed some of the gourmet foods of the United States. In fact, it was the first time that both the King and Queen had tasted hot dogs.
- 1944 --- Five days after the D-Day landing, the five Allied landing groups, made up of some 330,000 troops, link up in Normandy to form a single solid front across northwestern France. The Allied invasion force included 3 million men, 13,000 aircraft, 1,200 warships, 2,700 merchant ships, and 2,500 landing craft.
- 1949 --- Hank Williams sang a show-stopper on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. He sang the classic Lovesick Blues, one of his most beloved songs.
- 1955 --- A racing car in Le Mans, France, goes out of control and crashes into stands filled with spectators, killing 82 people. The tragedy in the famous 24-hour race leads to a ban on racing in several nations.
- 1961 --- Roy Orbison was wrapping up a week at number one on the Billboard record chart with Running Scared, his first number one hit. Orbison recorded 23 hits for the pop charts, but only one other song made it to number one: Oh Pretty Woman in 1964.
- 1963 --- Facing federalized Alabama National Guard troops, Alabama Governor George Wallace ends his blockade of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and allows two African American students to enroll. On June 10,President John F. Kennedy federalized National Guard troops and deployed them to the University of Alabama to force its desegregation. The next day, when the students were expected to register, Wallace stood in front of the University of Alabama campus auditorium flanked by Alabama state troopers while cameras flashed and recorders from the press corps whirred. Kennedy, at the White House, and Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, in Tuscaloosa, kept in touch by phone. When Wallace refused to let the students enter for
registration, Katzenbach phoned Kennedy. Kennedy upped the pressure on Wallace, immediately issuing Presidential Proclamation 3542, which ordered the governor to comply, and authorizing the secretary of defense to call up the Alabama National Guard with Executive Order 11111. That afternoon, Katzenbach returned with the students and asked Wallace to step aside. Wallace, knowing
he was beaten, relented, having saved face with his hard-line, anti-segregation constituency. Three days later, a third black student registered at the University of Alabama campus in Huntsville without interference.
- 1963 --- Buddhist monk Quang Duc publicly burns himself to death in a plea for President Ngo Dinh Diem to show "charity and compassion" to all religions. Diem, a Catholic who had been oppressing the Buddhist majority, remained stubborn despite continued Buddhist protests and repeated U.S. requests to liberalize his government's policies. More Buddhist monks immolated themselves during ensuing weeks. Madame Nhu, the president's sister-in-law, referred to the burnings as "barbecues" and offered to supply matches.
- 1963 --- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested in Florida for trying to integrate restaurants.
- 1966 --- Janis Joplin debuted on stage at the Avalon ballroom in San Francisco.
- 1967 --- The Six-Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors ends with a United Nations-brokered cease-fire. The outnumbered Israel Defense Forces achieved a swift and decisive victory in the brief war, rolling over the Arab coalition that threatened the Jewish state and more than doubling the amount of territory under Israel's control.
- 1972 -- Hank Aaron tied the National League record for 14 grand-slam home runs in a career.
- 1977 --- Seattle Slew won the Belmont Stakes, capturing the Triple Crown.
- 1977 --- In the Netherlands, a 19-day hostage situation came to an end when Dutch marines stormed a train and a school being held by South Moluccan extremist. Two hostages and the six terrorists were killed.
- 1982 --- The movie E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial opened. Steven Spielberg directed this classic. It dazzled audiences with state-of-the-art special effects and a touching, humorous, story line, grossing over $100 million in its first 31 days of theatrical release.
- 1989 --- In the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre on June 4, China issues a warrant for a leading Chinese dissident who had taken refuge in the U.S. embassy in Beijing. The diplomatic standoff lasted for a year, and the refusal of the United States to hand the dissident over to Chinese officials was further evidence of American disapproval of China's crackdown on political protesters.
- 1991 -- Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted. The eruption of ash and gas could be seen for more than 60 miles.
- 1993 --- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people who commit "hate crimes" could be sentenced to extra punishment. The court also ruled in favor of religious groups saying that they indeed had a constitutional right to sacrifice animals during worship services.
- 1993 --- U.S. audiences rumbled to theatres for a first look at Jurassic Park. The Steven Spielberg-directed dinosaur blockbuster billed a gigantic $47.06 million -- just for openers.
- 2002 --- "American Idol" debuted on Fox.
- Birthdays
- Rep. Jeanette Rankin
- Joe Montana
- Diana Taurasi
- Jacques Cousteau
- Richard Strauss
- Bonnie Pointer
- Vince Lombardi
- Hugh Laurie
- Shia Lebeouf
- Gene Wilder
- Jackie Stewart
- Frank Beard
- Dr Mehmet Oz
- Dame Millicent Fawcett
- Yasunari Kawabata
- Bartolomeo Vanzetti
- Shelly Manne
- Adrienne Barbeau
- Henry Hill
