Today Monday, 5th of June of 2017 is the 156th day of the year.
There are 209 days remaining until the end of the year.
519 days until Congressional Elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018.
1247 days until the next Presidential Election Tuesday November 3, 2020.
The sun rose this morning at 5:48 am,
and the sun set tonight at 8:29 pm.
Today we will have 14 hours and 41 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 1:09 pm.
The first high tide will be at 10:28 am,
The next low tide will be at 3:27 pm.
and the next high tide at 10:02 pm.
The Moon is 85.8% illuminated; a Waxing Gibbous moon
Moon Direction: ↑ 274.52° W
Moon Altitude: -18.94°
Moon Distance: 249852 mi
Next Full Moon: this Friday June 9, 2017 at 6:09 am
Next New Moon: Jun 23, 2017 at 7:30 pm
Next Moonrise: Today at 5:04 pm
Today is…
"Thank God It's Monday" Day
Apple II Day
Festival of Popular Delusions Day
Hot Air Balloon Day
National Attitude Day
National Gingerbread Day
Today is also...
Arbor Day in New Zealand
Constitution Day in Denmark
Constitution Day in Faroe Island
Father's Day in Denmark
Feast of Núr, the first day of the fifth month of the Bahá'í calendar
Indian Arrival Day in Suriname
Khordad Movement Anniversary in Iran
Liberation Day in Seychelles
President's Day in Equatorial Guinea
Teachers' Day in Romania
World Environment Day
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
1723 – Economist Adam Smith was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland.
1850 – Pat Garrett, American sheriff (d. 1908)
1878 – Pancho Villa, Mexican general and politician, Governor of Chihuahua (d. 1923)
1883 – John Maynard Keynes, English economist, philosopher, and academic (d. 1946)
1898 – Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright, and director (d. 1936)
1919 – Richard Scarry, American-Swiss author and illustrator (d. 1994)
1934 – Bill Moyers, American journalist, 13th White House Press Secretary
1941 – Spalding Gray, American writer, actor, and monologist (d. 2004)
1947 – Laurie Anderson, American singer-songwriter and violinist
1949 – Ken Follett, Welsh author
1951 – Suze Orman, American financial adviser, author, and television host
1956 – Kenny G, American saxophonist, songwriter, and producer
1971 – Mark Wahlberg, American model, actor, producer, and rapper
1972 – Chuck Klosterman, American journalist and author
1995 – Ross Wilson, English table tennis player
1995 – Troye Sivan, South African born Australian youtuber, actor, singer/songwriter
1995 – William Leo Lindner-Vance, student, gamer, son of this annnouncer
1998 – Yulia Lipnitskaya, Russian figure skater
On this day in history
1837 – Houston is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
1849 – Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
1883 – The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
1915 – Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
1916 – Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
1933 – The United States went off the gold standard.
1947 – Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, the United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
1949 – Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first female member of Thailand's Parliament.
1956 – Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
1967 – The Six Day War erupted in the Middle East as Israel raided Egyptian military targets. Syria, Jordan and Iraq entered the conflict.
1968 – Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded just after claiming victory in California's Democratic presidential primary. Gunman Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was immediately arrested.
1981 – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that five gay men in Los Angeles had come down with a rare kind of pneumonia; they were the first recognized cases of what became known as AIDS.
2004 – Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, died in Los Angeles at age 93 after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease.
2007 – Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for lying and obstructing the CIA leak investigation.