- 127th Day of 2015 238 Remaining
- Summer Begins in 45 Days
- Sunrise:6:06
- Sunset:8:05
- 13 Hours 59 Minutes
- Moon Rise:11:34pm
- Moon Set:9:04am
- Phase:86%
- Full Moon June 2 @ 9:21am
Full Strawberry Moon This name was universal to every Algonquin tribe. However, in Europe they called it the Full 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/2:55pm
- Low:7:48am/7:45pm
- Holidays
- National Barrier Awareness Day
- National Day Of Prayer
- National Day Of Reason
- National Roast Leg Of Lamb Day
- National Tourism Day
- Paste Up Day
- On This Day
- 1429 --- The English siege of Orleans was broken by Joan of Arc.
- 1789 --- President George Washington attends a ball in his honor. The event provided a model for the first official inaugural ball, held to celebrate James Madison’s ascension to the office ten years later, which then became an annual tradition.
- 1847 --- The American Medical Association was founded in Philadelphia.
- 1896 --- Dr. H. H. Holmes, one of America’s first well-known serial killers, is hanged to death in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Although his criminal exploits were just as extensive and occurred during the same time period as Jack the Ripper, the Arch Fiend–as Holmes was known–has not endured in the public’s memory the way the Ripper has.
- 1902 --- Martinique’s Mount Pele begins the deadliest volcanic eruption of the 20th century. The following day, the city of Saint Pierre, which some called the Paris of the Caribbean, was virtually wiped off the map.
- 1915 --- The British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland. Within 20 minutes, the vessel sank into the Celtic Sea. Of 1,959 passengers and crew, 1,198 people were drowned, including 128 Americans. The attack aroused considerable indignation in the United States, but Germany defended the action, noting that it had issued warnings of its intent to attack all ships, neutral or otherwise, that entered the war zone around Britain.
- 1940 --- Winston Churchill became British Prime Minister.
- 1941 --- Glenn Miller and His Orchestra recorded "Chattanooga Choo Choo."
- 1942 --- In the Battle of the Coral Sea, Japanese and American navies attacked each other with carrier planes. It was the first time in the history of naval warfare where two enemy fleets fought without seeing each other.
- 1945 --- The German High Command, in the person of General Alfred Jodl, signs the unconditional surrender of all German forces, East and West, at Reims, in northwestern France. At first, General Jodl hoped to limit the terms of German surrender to only those forces still fighting the Western Allies. But General Dwight Eisenhower demanded complete surrender of all German forces, those fighting in the East as well as in the West. If this demand was not met, Eisenhower was prepared to seal off the Western front, preventing Germans from fleeing to the West in order to surrender, thereby leaving them in the hands of the enveloping Soviet forces.
- 1954 --- In northwest Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh’s Viet Minh forces decisively defeat the French at Dien Bien Phu, a French stronghold besieged by the Vietnamese communists for 57 days. The Viet Minh victory at Dien Bien Phu signaled the end of French colonial influence in Indochina and cleared the way for the division of Vietnam along the 17th parallel at the conference of Geneva.
- 1964 --- Leonid Brezhnev, one of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s most trusted proteges, is selected as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet—the Soviet equivalent to the presidency.
- 1965 --- In a Clearwater, Florida, motel room, a bleary-eyed Keith Richards awoke, grabbed a tape recorder and laid down one of the greatest pop hooks of all time: The opening riff of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.” He then promptly fell back to sleep.
- 1984 --- A $180 million out-of-court settlement was announced in the Agent Orange class-action suit brought by Vietnam veterans who claimed they had suffered injury from exposure to the defoliant while serving in the armed forces.
- 1991 --- A judge in Macon, Georgia dismissed a wrongful death suit against Ozzy Osbourne. A local couple failed to prove their son was inspired to attempt suicide by Ozzy's music.
- 1994 --- The Edvard Munch painting "The Scream" was recovered after being stolen 3 months earlier from an Oslo Museum. This version of "The Scream", one of four different versions, was painted on paper.
- 1998 --- German automobile company Daimler-Benz–maker of the world-famous luxury car brand Mercedes-Benz–announces a $36 billion merger with the United States-based Chrysler Corporation.
- 1999 --- A jury ruled that "The Jenny Jones Show" and Warner Bros. were liable in the shooting death of Scott Amedure. He was killed by another guest on the show. The jury's award was $25 million.
- Birthdays
- Bill Kreutzman
- Janis Ian
- Eva Peron
- Robert Browning
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Johannes Brahms
- Josip Broz Tito
- Anne Baxter
- Totie Fields
- Archibald MacLeish
- Gary Cooper
- Johnny Unitas
- Thelma Houston
- Traci Lords
