- 151st Day of 2013 / 214 Remaining
- 21 Days Until The First Day of Summer
- Sunrise:5:49
- Sunset:8:25
- 14 Hours 36 Minutes of Daylight
- Moon Rise:1:08am
- Moon Set:1:05pm
- Moon’s Phase: Last Quarter
- The Next Full Moon
- June 23 @ 4:33am
- Full Strawberry Moon
- Full Rose Moon
This name 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:4:23am/5:53pm
- Low:10:52am
- Rainfall (measured July 1 – June 30)
- This Year:16.36
- Last Year:15.64
- Normal To Date:23.62
- Annual Seasonal Average:23.80
- Holidays
- National Macaroon Day
- National Go Barefoot Day
- Say Something Nice Day
- Admission Day-Kentucky
- Admission Day-Tennessee
- Independence Day-Samoa
- International Children's Day-China
- Jerusalem Day - Israel
- Dia de Castilla la Mancha-Spain
- World No Tobacco Day
- Independence Day-Zimbabwe
- On This Day In …
- 1859 --- The famous tower clock known as Big Ben, located at the top of the 320-foot-high St. Stephen's Tower, rings out over the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, for the first time.
- 1859 --- The Philadelphia Athletics were formally organized to play the game of Town Ball.
- 1884 --- Dr. John Harvey Kellogg applied for a patent for 'flaked cereal' (corn flakes). It was his brother Will Keith Kellogg who became rich & famous by marketing the new cereal commercially.
- 1889 --- 2,300 people died and thousands lost their homes on this unfortunate day in Johnstown, PA. Heavy rains throughout the month caused the Connemaugh River Dam to break, flooding Johnstown. Some 800 unidentified victims were buried in a common grave. The flood was such a tragedy that the phrase, “Johnstown Flood,” became synonymous with a disaster.
- 1892 --- Lea & Perrins label was trademarked.
- 1907 --- The first taxis arrived in New York City. They were the first in the United States.
- 1913 --- The 17th Amendment to the Constitution, providing for the popular election of U.S. senators, was declared in effect.
- 1917 --- The first jazz record, "Dark Town Strutters' Ball," was released.
- 1929 --- After two years of exploratory visits and friendly negotiations, Ford Motor Company signs a landmark agreement to produce cars in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union, which in 1928 had only 20,000 cars and a single truck factory, was eager to join the ranks of automotive production, and Ford, with its focus on engineering and manufacturing methods, was a natural choice to help. The always independent-minded Henry Ford was strongly in favor of his free-market company doing business with Communist countries. An article published in May 1929 in The New York Times quoted Ford as saying that "No matter where industry prospers, whether in India or China, or Russia, all the world is bound to catch some good from it." Signed in Dearborn, Michigan, the contract stipulated that Ford would oversee construction of a production plant at Nizhni Novgorod, located on the banks of the Volga River, to manufacture Model A cars. An assembly plant would also start operating immediately within Moscow city limits. In return, the USSR agreed to buy 72,000 unassembled Ford cars and trucks and all spare parts to be required over the following nine years, a total of some $30 million worth of Ford products. Valery U. Meshlauk, vice chairman of the Supreme Council of National Economy, signed the Dearborn agreement on behalf of the Soviets. To comply with its side of the deal, Ford sent engineers and executives to the Soviet Union.
- 1941 --- The very first issue of Parade: The Weekly Picture Newspaper went on sale. Some 125,000 copies were sold for a nickel each. Parade became the most-read publication in the U.S. with a circulation of over 22-million readers in 132 newspapers.
- 1955 --- The U.S. Supreme Court ordered that all states must end racial segregation "with all deliberate speed."
- 1962 --- Near Tel Aviv, Israel, Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi SS officer who organized Adolf Hitler's "final solution of the Jewish question," was executed for his crimes against humanity.
- 1964 --- The longest major-league baseball doubleheader (to the time) ended in 19 hours, 16 minutes. The New York Mets and the San Francisco Giants battled it out at Shea Stadium in New York. The first game of the doubleheader set a major-league mark for the longest game (by time) as the Giants beat the Mets 8-6. The game lasted 23 innings and was played in 7 hours and 23 minutes.
- 1969 --- John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded "Give Peace a Chance" during their Montreal bed-in.
- 1969 --- Stevie Wonder’s My Cherie Amour was released by Tamla Records. The song made it to number four on the pop music charts on July 26 and stayed on the nation’s radios for eleven weeks. Trivia: My Cherie Amour was not the original title of the song. Wonder had named the song, Oh My Marcia, for a former girlfriend.
- 1977 --- Timed with typical Sex Pistols flair to coincide with Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee, the release of "God Save The Queen" was greeted by precisely the torrent of negative press that Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren had hoped. The song earned a total ban on radio airplay from the BBC—a kiss of death for a normal pop single, but a powerful endorsement for an anti-establishment rant like "God Save The Queen." While some in the tabloid press accused the Sex Pistols of treason and called for their public hanging, the BBC was more moderate in its condemnation. In response to lyrics like "God Save The Queen/She ain't no human being," the BBC labeled the record an example of "gross bad taste"—a difficult charge to argue, and one the Sex Pistols wouldn't have wanted to dispute. Even with the radio ban in place, however, and with major retailers like Woolworth refusing to sell the controversial single, "God Save The Queen" flew off the shelves of the stores that did carry it, selling up to 150,000 copies a day. With sales figures like that, it seems implausible that "God Save The Queen" really stalled at #2 on the official UK pop charts, yet that is where it appeared, as a blank entry below "I Don't Want to Talk About It" by Rod Stewart, the ultimate anti-punk.
- 1979 --- Zimbabwe proclaimed its independence.
- 1990 --- The sitcom "Seinfeld" premiered on NBC.
- 2003 --- Eric Rudolph, suspected in bombings at a Birmingham. Ala., abortion clinic and at the Atlanta Olympics, was arrested outside a grocery store in Murphy, N.C. (He later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four life terms.)
- 2005 --- W. Mark Felt’s family ends 30 years of speculation, identifying Felt, the former FBI assistant director, as “Deep Throat,” the secret source who helped unravel the Watergate scandal. The Felt family’s admission, made in an article in Vanity Fair magazine, took legendary reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who had promised to keep their source’s identity a secret until his death, by surprise. Tapes show that Nixon himself had speculated that Felt was the secret informant as early as 1973.
- 2009 --- Dr. George Tiller, a provider of late-term abortions, was shot and killed in a Wichita, Kan., church. (Gunman Scott Roeder was later convicted and sentenced to life in prison.)
- Birthdays
- Walt Whitman
- Marilyn Monroe
- Clint Eastwood
- Brooke Shields
- Peter Yarrow
- Sharon Gless
- Joe Namath
- Chris Elliot
- Lea Thompson
- DMC
- Fred Allen
- Julius Richard Petri
- Norman Vincent Peale
- Don Ameche
- Prince Ranier
- Johnny Paycheck
- John Bonham