June 6 is the 158th day of the year
There are 208 days remaining until the end of 2016.
The sun will is rising at 5:48 am
and sunset will be at 8:30 pm.
Today we will have 14 hours and 42 minutes of sun.
The solar transit will be at 1:09 pm.
the first high tide was at 12:23 am
and the next high tide will be at 2:21 pm.
The first low tide will be at 7:07 am
and the next low tide at 7:04 pm.
Moon is 2.9% illuminated
It's a Waxing Crescent
Moonrise Today: 7:36 AM↑ 66° East
Moonset Today: 10:07 PM↑ 293° Northwest
Today is "Thank God It's Monday" Day
It's also Atheist Pride Day
D-Day
Drive-in Movie Day
National Applesauce Cake Day
National Gardening Exercise Day
National Hunger Awareness Day
Today is National Yo-yo Day
Today is Russian Language Day
It's also Teacher’s Day
Memorial Day in South Korea
National Day of Sweden
Queensland Day in Queensland state, Australia
Teachers' Day in Bolivia
Argentina's engineering day
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You get to share birthday cake with...
1599Diego VelazquezSpanish 17th-century painter
1755 Nathan Hale, American soldier (d. 1776)
1875Thomas MannGerman novelist and essayist.
1880William CosgraveIrish statesman and first president
1901Sukarno Indonesian statesman; leader of independence movement and first president (1949-67)
1902Jimmie Lunceford American jazz band leader
1903Aram KhachaturianRussian composer
1907Bill DickeyAmerican athlete; catcher for the New York Yankees
1939Gary U.S. Bonds, American singer-songwriter
1941Alexander Cockburn, Scottish-American journalist and author (d. 2012)
1943Richard Smalley, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
1954Harvey Fierstein, American actor and playwright
1955Sandra Bernhard, American actress and comedian
1956Bjorn Borg, Swedish Tennis athlete
1960Steve Vai, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1963Eric Cantor, American lawyer and politician
1967Paul Giamatti, American actor
On this day in history….
1833Andrew Jackson becomes the first U.S. President to ride on a train.
1844The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
1889The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.
1892 The Chicago "L" commuter rail system begins operation
1894Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.
1925Walter Percy Chrysler founded the Chrysler Corp.
1932 The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1⁄4¢/L) sold.
1933The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey, United States.
1934New Deal: The U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
1944World War II: The Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.
1946The National Basketball Association is created with eleven teams.
1966Black activist James Meredith was shot and wounded as he walked along a Mississippi highway to encourage black voter registration.
1968Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Robert F. Kennedy, Democratic Party senator from New York and brother of 35th President John F. Kennedy, dies from gunshot wounds inflicted on June 5.
1971Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 is launched.
1978California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 13, a ballot measure calling for major cuts in property taxes.
1984Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all time, is first released in the USSR.
1990The 2 Live Crew album "As Nasty As They Wanna Be" was ruled obscene by a federal judge in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
2004Phylicia Rashad became the first African-American actress to win a Tony for a leading dramatic role for her work in a revival of "A Raisin in the Sun."
2011After days of denials, Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., confessed that he had tweeted a lewd photo of himself to a woman and admitted to "inappropriate" exchanges with six women.