Today Tuesday, 6th of June of 2017 is the 157th day of the year. There are 208 days remaining until the end of the year. 518 days until Congressional Elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018 . 1246 days until the next Presidential Election on Tuesday November 3, 2020. The sun rose just now at 5:48 am and the sun will set at 8:30 pm tonight. We will have 14 hours and 42 minutes of daylight today. ..
Solar noon will be at 1:09 pm.
The first low tide was at 4:39 am
The first high tide will be at 11:23 am
The next low tide at 4:09 pm.
and the next high tide at 10:34 pm.
There are 208 days remaining until the end of the year.
The Moon is 91.6% illuminated
a Waxing Gibbous
Our Next Full Moon will be on Friday Jun 9, 2017 at 6:09 am
Next New Moon two weeks after on Friday June 23, 2017 at 7:30 pm
Next Moonrise: Today at 6:00 pm
Moon Direction: ↑ 260.20° W
Moon Altitude: -6.15°
Moon Distance: 251194 mi
Today is….
Atheist Pride Day
D-Day
Drive-in Movie Day
National Applesauce Cake Day
National Eyewear Day
National Gardening Exercise Day
National Higher Education Day
National Hunger Awareness Day
National Yo-yo Day
It's also…
Memorial Day in South Korea
National Day of Sweden
Queensland Day in Australia
Teachers' Day in Bolivia
Argentina's engineering day
UN Russian Language Day
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you! You share this special day with...
1755 – Nathan Hale, American soldier (d. 1776)
1756 – John Trumbull, American soldier and painter (d. 1843)
1799 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian author and poet (d. 1837)
1867 – David T. Abercrombie, American surveyor and businessman, founded Abercrombie & Fitch (d. 1931)
1875 – Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
1901 – Sukarno, Indonesian engineer and politician, 1st President of Indonesia (d. 1970)
1902 – Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1947)
1903 – Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer and conductor (d. 1978)
1939 – Gary U.S. Bonds, American singer-songwriter
1941 – Alexander Cockburn, Scottish-American journalist and author (d. 2012)
1943 – Richard Smalley, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
1949 – Holly Near, American folk singer-songwriter
1951 – Dwight Twilley, American rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, and pianist
1954 – Harvey Fierstein, American actor and playwright
1955 – Sandra Bernhard, American actress and comedian
1956 – Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player and fashion designer
1960 – Steve Vai, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1963 – Eric Cantor, American lawyer and politician
1967 – Paul Giamatti, American actor
On this day in history…
913 – Emperor Alexander III dies of exhaustion while playing the game tzykanion (Byzantine name for polo). He is succeeded by his 8-year-old nephew Constantine VII.
1523 – Gustav Vasa, the Swedish regent, is elected King of Sweden, marking a symbolic end to the Kalmar Union. This is the Swedish national day.
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.
1933 – The first drive-in theater opens in Camden, New Jersey, United States.
1944 – World 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.
2004 – Tamil is established as a "classical language" by the President of India, Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.
2016 – Major news outlets report Hillary Clinton as having become the presumptive nominee for US president, the first female in a major party to do so in the country's 240-year history.