Don't take my Kodachrome away! (They did...see 2009 below.)
Today is Friday, June 22, 2018, the 173rd day of the year with 192 days remaining.
Sunrise: 5:48 am
Sunset: 8:35pm
...giving us 14 hours and 47 minutes of daylight. 64% of the waxing moon will be visible, rising at 3:35pm.
Tides at the Golden Gate
- High: 8:26am/8:38pm
- Low: 2:18am/1:45pm
Special international celebrations today…
- Antifascist Struggle Commemoration Day - Croatia
- Foundation of the Nation's Army - Congo (Republic of)
- Schoolteacher's Day - El Salvador
- World Rainforest Day
- Worldwide VW Beetle Day
It’s also…
- Baby Boomer's Recognition Day
- HVAC Technicians Day
- Global Smurfs Day
- National Eat At A Food Truck Day
- Ugliest Dog Day
- National Chocolate Eclair Day
- National Onion Ring Day
On this day in…
1558 - The French took the French town of Thioville from the English.
1611 - English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other people were set adrift in present-day Hudson Bay by mutineers.
1772 - Slavery was outlawed in England.
1807 - British seamen board the USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to the War of 1812.
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated a second time.
1832 - J.I. Howe patented the pin machine.
1868 - Arkansas was re-admitted to the Union.
1870 - The U.S. Congress created the Department of Justice.
1874 - Dr. Andrew Taylor Still began the first known practice of osteopathy.
1909 - The first transcontinental auto race ended in Seattle, WA.
1911 - King George V of England was crowned.
1915 - Austro-German forces occupied Lemberg on the Eastern Front as the Russians retreat.
1925 - France and Spain agreed to join forces against Abd el Krim in Morocco.
1933 - Germany became a one political party country when Hitler banned parties other than the Nazis.
1939 - The first U.S. water-ski tournament was held at Jones Beach, on Long Island, New York.
1940 - France and Germany signed an armistice at Compiegne, on terms dictated by the Nazis.
1941 - Under the codename Barbarossa, Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
1942 - A Japanese submarine shelled Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia River.
1942 - In France, Pierre Laval declared "I wish for a German victory".
1942 - V-Mail, or Victory-Mail, was sent for the first time.
1944 -US President Franklin Roosevelt signed the "GI Bill of Rights" to provide broad benefits for veterans of the war.
1945 - During World War II, the battle for Okinawa officially ended after 81 days.
1946 - Jet airplanes were used to transport mail for the first time.
1956 - The battle for Algiers began as three buildings in Casbah were blown up.
1959 - Eddie Lubanski rolled 24 consecutive strikes in a bowling tournament in Miami, FL.
1964 - The U.S. Supreme Court voted that Henry Miller's book, "Tropic of Cancer", could not be banned.
1970 - U.S. President Richard Nixon signed an extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It required that the voting age in the United States to be 18.
1973 - Skylab astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific after a record 28 days in space.
1974 - In Chicago, the Sears Tower Skydeck opened. (now Willis Tower)
1978 - James W. Christy and Robert S. Harrington discovered the only known moon of Pluto. The moon is named Charon.
1980 - The Soviet Union announced a partial withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.
1989 - The government of Angola and the anti-Communist rebels of the UNITA movement agreed to a formal truce in their 14-year-old civil war.
1990 - Checkpoint Charlie was dismantled in Berlin.
1992 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that hate-crime laws that ban cross-burning and similar expressions of racial bias violated free-speech rights.
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that evidence illegally obtained by authorities could be used at revocation hearings for a convicted criminal's parole.
1998 - The 75th National Marbles Tournament began in Wildwood, NJ.
1999 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that persons with remediable handicaps cannot claim discrimination in employment under the Americans with Disability Act.
2009 - Eastman Kodak Company announced that it would discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Color Film.
Today’s birthday celebrants include (or included)...
- George Vancouver 1757
- Erich Maria Remarque 1898
- John Dillinger 1902 - Gangster
- Carl Hubbell 1903
- Billy Wilder 1906
- Michael Todd 1907
- Ann Morrow Lindbergh 1907
- Mary Livingstone 1909
- Joseph Papp 1921
- Gower Champion 1921
- Bill Blass 1922
- Ralph Waite 1928
- Roy Drusky 1930
- Kris Kristofferson 1936 - Singer
- Ed Bradley 1941
- Barry Serafin 1941
- Michael Lerner 1941
- Brit Hume 1943 - Broadcast journalist
- Klaus Maria Brandauer 1944
- Peter Asher 1944 - Singer (Peter and Gordon)
- Andrew Rubin 1946
- David L. Lander 1947 - Actor ("Lavern and Shirley")
- Howard Kaylan 1947 - Musician (The Turtles)
- Todd Rungren 1948 - Musician
- Meryl Streep 1949 - Actress
- Alan Osmond 1949 - Singer ("The Osmonds")
- Lindsay Wagner 1949 - Actress ("The Bionic Woman")
- Larry Junstrom 1949 - Musician (.38 Special)
- Graham Greene 1952
- Cyndi Lauper 1953 - Singer
- Chris Lemmon 1954
- Freddie Prinze 1954
- Green Gartside (Scritti Politti) 1956
- Garry Gary Beers 1957 - Musician (INXS, Absent Friends)
- Bruce Campbell 1958
- Alan Anton (Cowboy Junkies) 1959
- Tracy Pollan 1960 - Actress
- Jimmy Somerville 1961 - Singer(Bronski Beat, Communards)
- Clyde Drexler 1962 - Basketball player
- Dan Brown 1964 - Actor ("The Da Vinci Code")
- Amy Brenneman 1964
- Mike Edwards 1964 - Singer, guitar player (Jesus Jones)
- Tom Cunningham (Wet Wet Wet) 1965
- Paula Irvine 1968
- Stephen Page (Barenaked Ladies) 1970
- Mary Lynn Rajskub 1971 - Actress ("24")
- Carson Dayl 1973 - TV personality
- Donald Faison 1974 - Actor ("Scrubs")
- Lindsay Ridgeway 1985
