- 163rd Day of 2013 / 202 Remaining
- 9 Days Until The First Day of Summer
- Sunrise:5:47
- Sunset:8:32
- 14 Hours 45 Minutes of Daylight
- Moon Rise:9:28am
- Moon Set: 11:15pm
- Moon’s Phase: 15 %
- The Next Full Moon
- June 23 @ 4:33am
- Full Strawberry Moon
- Full Rose Moon
The 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:12:56am/3:08pm
- Low:7:56am/8:15pm
- Rainfall (measured July 1 – June 30)
- Normal To Date:23.74
- This Year:16.36
- Last Year:15.77
- Annual Seasonal Average:23.80
- Holidays
- National Peanut Butter Cookie Day
- National Jerky Day
- Abused Women and Children's Awareness Day
- Crowed Nest Awareness Day
- Multicultural American Child Awareness Day
- Race Unity Day
- Independence Day-Philippines
- Russia Day-Russia
- On This Day In …
- 1665 --- England installed a municipal government in New York. It was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.
- 1839 --- Abner Doubleday created the game of baseball, according to the legend. However, evidence has surfaced that indicates that the game of baseball was played before 1800.
- 1873 --- Rocky Mountain locusts enter southwestern Minnesota. The beginning of a 4 year crop destroying locust (grasshopper) plague.
- 1897 --- Carl Elsener patented his penknife. The object later became known as the Swiss army knife.
- 1898 --- During the Spanish-American War, Filipino rebels led by Emilio Aguinaldo proclaim the independence of the Philippines after 300 years of Spanish rule. By mid-August, Filipino rebels and U.S. troops had ousted the Spanish, but Aguinaldo's hopes for independence were dashed when the United States formally annexed the Philippines as part of its peace treaty with Spain.
- 1923 --- Harry Houdini, while in a straitjacket, suspended 40 feet in the air, amazed a large and quite disbelieving audience as he freed himself of the constraints.
- 1935 --- Ella Fitzgerald recorded her first sides for Brunswick Records. The tunes were Love and Kisses and I’ll Chase the Blues Away. She was featured with Chick Webb and his band. Ella was 17 at the time and conducted the Webb band for three years following his death in 1939.
- 1939 --- The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, New York. This was exactly one hundred years to the day on which the game was supposedly invented by Abner Doubleday.
- 1942 --- Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl living in Amsterdam, receives a diary for her 13th birthday. A month later, she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis in rooms behind her father's office. For two years, the Franks and four other families hid, fed and cared for by Gentile friends. The families were discovered by the Gestapo, which had been tipped off, in 1944. The Franks were taken to Auschwitz, where Anne's mother died. Friends in Amsterdam searched the rooms and found Anne's diary hidden away.
- 1963 --- Elizabeth Taylor starred in the $40,000,000 film epic, Cleopatra. The movie certainly gave ticket buyers their money’s worth. It lasted for four hours, three minutes. Cleopatra opened at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City on this day. Richard Burton starred as Marc Antony, Rex Harrison played Julius Caesar, Hume Cronyn played Sosigines, Carroll O’Connor was Casa and Roddy McDowell appeared as Octavian. It is rumored that the caterers were the only ones who made money on this movie.
- 1963 --- In the driveway outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi, African American civil rights leader Medgar Evers is shot to death by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. During World War II, Evers volunteered for the U.S. Army and participated in the Normandy invasion. In 1952, he joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). As a field worker for the NAACP, Evers traveled through his home state encouraging poor African Americans to register to vote and recruiting them into the civil rights movement. He was instrumental in getting witnesses and evidence for the Emmitt Till murder case, which brought national attention to the plight of African Americans in the South.
- 1965 --- The Queen of England announced that The Beatles would receive the coveted MBE Award. The Order of the British Empire recognition had previously been bestowed only upon British military heroes, many of whom were so infuriated by the news, they returned their medals to the Queen. In fact, John Lennon wasn’t terribly impressed with receiving the honor. He returned it (for other reasons) four years later.
- 1975 --- Indira Gandhi, the prime minister of India, is found guilty of electoral corruption in her successful 1971 campaign. Despite calls for her resignation, Gandhi refused to give up India's top office and later declared martial law in the country when public demonstrations threatened to topple her administration.
- 1987 --- President Ronald Reagan delivered a now-famous speech at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, “General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” Destruction began November 9, 1989 on the Berlin Wall that had divided the city for some 28 years.
- 1991 --- Russians went to the election polls and elected Boris N. Yeltsin as the president of their republic.
- 1992 --- In a letter to the U.S. Senate, Russian Boris Yeltsin stated that in the early 1950's the Soviet Union had shot down nine U.S. planes and held 12 American survivors.
- 1997 --- Interleague play began in baseball, ending a 126-year tradition of separating the major leagues until the World Series.
- 2008 --- A deeply divided Supreme Court ruled that foreign detainees held for years at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba had the right to appeal to U.S. civilian courts to challenge their indefinite imprisonment without charges.
- Birthdays
- George H. W. Bush (41st President)
- Anne Frank
- Chick Corea
- Vic Damone
- Marv Albert
- Paula Marshall
- Frances O’Connor
- Hideki Matsui
- Harriet Martineau
- Irwin Allen
- Uta Hagen
- Jim Nabors
- Junior Brown