Today is Monday May 26, 2014
146th day of 2014, 209 remaining
Sunrise: 5:51am
Sunset: 8:22pm
14hours and 30 minutes of daylight today
Moonrise: 4:35 a.m.
Moonset: 6:32 p.m.
Special Celebrations today:
Today is Memorial Day as well as Sally Ride Day. It's also National Blueberry Cheesecake Day
On this day in...
1647: A new law banned Catholic priests from the colony of Massachusetts.
1805:Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned King of Italy.
1864: The Territory of Montana was organized.
1896: The Dow Jones Industrial Average appeared for the first time in the Wall Street Journal.
1938: The House Committe on Un-American Activities began its work of searching for subversives in the U.S.
1946: A patent was filed in the U.S. for an H-bomb.
1958: Union Square in our fair city became a state historical landmark.
1975: The first legal casino in the Eastern U.S. opened in Atlantic City, N.J.
If today is your birthday, you share it with:
AL JOLSON
JOHN WAYNE
PEGGY LEE
JAMES ARNESS
BRENT MUSBURGER
STEVIE NICKS
PAM GRIER
SALLY RIDE
LENNY KRAVITS
Tags: Daily Almanac/tides