- 155th Day of 2014 / 210 Remaining
- Summer Begins in 17 Days
- Sunrise:5:48
- Sunset:8:28
- 14 Hours 40 Minutes of Daylight
- Moon Rise:12:08pm
- Moon Set:12:35am
- Moon’s Phase: 40 %
- 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:3:18am/5:21pm
- Low:10:09am/11:29pm
- Rainfall
- This Year:12.65
- Last Year:16.36
- Average Year to Date:23.66
- Holidays
- Audacity To Hope Day
- National Trails Day
- Cheese Day
- International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
- Flag Day-Finland
- Revolution Day-Ghana
- Emancipation Day-Tonga
- On This Day In …
- 1615 --- The fortress of Osaka, Japan, fell to shogun Ieyasu after a six month siege.
- 1784 --- Elisabeth Marie Thible of Lyon, France was the first woman to fly in a hot-air balloon. Her flight lasted 45 minutes, that’s 20 minutes longer than the flying trip her male counterparts (Dr. Pilâtre de Rozier and his faithful courtier, the Marquis d’Arlandes) took some 6 months earlier. Mme. Thible’s balloon, named Le Gustave (after Sweden’s King Gustav III, who viewed the ascent), rose 8,500 feet (2,591 meters).
- 1872 --- Robert Chesebrough of New York patented a method for making Vaseline.
- 1876 --- A mere 83 hours after leaving New York City, the Transcontinental Express train arrives in San Francisco. By 1869, the first transcontinental line linking the coasts was completed. Suddenly, a journey that had previously taken months using horses could be made in less than a week. 5 days after the transcontinental railroad was completed, daily passenger service over the rails began. The speed and comfort offered by rail travel was so astonishing that many Americans could scarcely believe it, and popular magazines wrote glowing accounts of the amazing journey.
- 1892 --- The Sierra Club was incorporated in San Francisco.
- 1895 --- African American inventor Joseph Lee patented a machine for "bread crumbing." It was intended for use by restaurants to crumb large quantities of bread scraps.
- 1896 --- Henry Ford made a successful pre-dawn test run of his horseless carriage, called a quadricycle, through the streets of Detroit. When Ford and James Bishop, his chief assistant, attempted to wheel the Quadricycle out of the shed, however, they discovered that it was too wide to fit through the door. To solve the problem, Ford took an axe to the brick wall of the shed, smashing it to make space for the vehicle to be rolled out.
- 1917 --- Laura E. Richards and Maude H. Elliott, along with their assistant, Florence Hall,received the first Pulitzer Prize for a biography. The title of their work was Julia Ward Howe. With Americans of Past and Present Days, by Jean Jules Jusserand, received the first prize for history; while Herbert B. Swope picked up the first reporter’s Pulitzer. He wrote for the New York World. Altogether, these were the very first Pulitzer Prizes ever awarded.
- 1919 --- Congress approved the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing citizens the right to vote regardless of their gender, and sent it to the states for ratification.
- 1924 --- An eternal light was dedicated at Madison Square in New York City in memory of all New York soldiers who died in World War I.
- 1934 --- President Franklin Roosevelt asks Congress to appropriate $52.5 million to battle economic and social disaster in the American Midwest caused in part by a series of droughts in the Great Plains region.
- 1936 --- Sylvan Goldman a major owner of the Piggly-Wiggly supermarket chain, invented the shopping cart. He got the idea from a wooden folding chair. He designed the cart by putting a basket on
the seat, another below and wheels on the legs. He put one together with a metal frame, and wire baskets. The frames could be folded up and the baskets stacked, which took up less storage room. Customers were reluctant to use the cart, so Goldman hired fake shoppers to wheel them around pretending to shop so people could see how useful they could be!
- 1940 --- 22-year-old Carson McCullers' first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, is published. The novel, about misfits in a Georgia mill town, is an instant success.
- 1942 --- The Battle of Midway began. It was the first major victory for America over Japan during World War II. The battle ended on June 6 and ended Japanese expansion in the Pacific.
- 1946 --- Juan Peron was installed as Argentina's president.
- 1961 --- President John F Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union, meeting in Vienna, strike a bargain to support a neutral and independent Laos.
- 1964 --- Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers tied Bob Feller’s 1951 record by pitchinga third career no-hit baseball game. Koufax blanked the Philadelphia Phillies 3-0. He struck out a dozen Phillies’ batters.
- 1972 --- Angela Yvonne Davis, a former philosophy professor at the University of California, and self-proclaimed communist, is acquitted on charges of conspiracy, murder, and kidnapping by an all-white jury in San Jose, California.
1974 --- Cleveland Indians public relations experts thought that ‘Ten Cent Beer Night’ would bring out the fans and otherwise help the slumping Indians -- a team no one cared to watch. The promotion was a disaster. Oh, sure, there was plenty of dime brew sold at
Municipal Stadium that night. But there were soon plenty of drunken, surly, unruly fans, too, which made it possible for the Indians to forfeit the ball game to the Texas Rangers. Municipal Stadium could seat some 60,000 fans and only 22,000 showed up for the frolic and merriment.
- 1986 --- The California Supreme Court approved a law that limited the liability of manufacturers and other wealthy defendants. It was known as the "deep pockets law."
- 1986 --- Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top-secret U.S. military intelligence information to Israel. The former Navy intelligence analyst sold enough classified documents to fill a medium-sized room.
- 1989 --- Chinese troops storm through Tiananmen Square in the center of Beijing, killing and arresting thousands of pro-democracy protesters. The brutal Chinese government assault on the protesters shocked the West and brought denunciations and sanctions from the United States. In May 1989, nearly a million Chinese, mostly young students, crowded into central Beijing to protest for greater democracy and call for the resignations of Chinese Communist Party leaders deemed too repressive. For nearly three weeks, the protesters kept up daily vigils, and marched and chanted. Western reporters captured much of the drama for television and newspaper audiences in the United States and Europe. On June 4, 1989, however, Chinese troops and security police stormed through Tiananmen Square, firing indiscriminately into the crowds of protesters. Turmoil ensued, as tens of thousands of the young students tried to escape the rampaging Chinese forces. Other protesters fought back, stoning the attacking troops and overturning
and setting fire to military vehicles. Reporters and Western diplomats on the scene estimated that at least 300, and perhaps thousands, of the protesters had been killed and as many as 10,000 were arrested.
- 1992 --- The U.S. Postal Service announced that people preferred the "younger Elvis" stamp design in a nationwide vote.
- 2011 --- Li Na won the French Open's women's championship, becoming the first Chinese tennis player to win a Grand Slam singles title.
- Birthdays
- Rosalind Russell
- Robert Merrill
- Angelina Jolie
- Russell Brand
- Michelle Phillips
- Bruce Dern
- El DeBarge
- Noah Wyle
- King George III
- Beno Gutenberg
- Mary Hannah
- Alla Nazimova
- Dennis Weaver
- Bettina Gregory
