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KALW Almanac ~ Wednesday June 7, 2017

Magnum Infinity Chocolate & Raspberry Ice Cream Bars Closeup, by flickr user theimpulsivebuy

 
 
Today Wednesday, 7th of June of 2017 is the 158th day of the year.  There are 207 days remaining until the end of the year.  517 days until Congressional Elections AND 1245 days until Presidential Elections.  The sun rises at 5:48 am and the sun will set tonight at 8:30 pm. 

Today we will have 14 hours and 42 minutes of daylight. 

Solar noon will be at 1:09 pm.

The first low tide was at 5:15 am 

The first high tide will be at 12:11 pm 

The next low tide will be at 4:49 pm. 

and the last high tide will be tonight at 11:04 pm.

The Moon is 96.2% illuminated; A Waxing Gibbous moon

Moon Direction: ↑ 255.19° WSW

Moon Altitude: -4.78°

Moon Distance: 252085 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 6:54 pm

Today is...

Daniel Boone Day

June Bug Day

National Chocolate Ice Cream Day

National Running Day

National Tailors' Day

Trial Technology Day

VCR Day

Today is also…

Anniversary of the Memorandum of the Slovak Nation

Birthday of Prince Joachim in Denmark

Battle of Arica Day, observed in Arica y Parinacota Region, Chile

Flag Day in Peru

Journalist Day in Argentina

Ludi Piscatorii in the Roman Empire

Sette Giugno in Malta

The first day of the Vestalia in the Roman Empire

Union Dissolution Day in Norway

If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you!  You share this day with...

1778 – Beau Brummell, English cricketer and fashion designer (d. 1840)

1848 – Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (d. 1903)

1897 – George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor and composer (d. 1970)

1909 – Jessica Tandy, English-American actress (d. 1994)

1917 – Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (d. 2000)

1917 – Dean Martin, American singer, actor, and producer (d. 1995)

1940 – Tom Jones, Welsh singer and actor

1943 – Nikki Giovanni, American author, poet, and educator

1944 – Clarence White, American guitarist and singer (The Byrds) (d. 1973)

1952 – Liam Neeson, Irish-American actor

1952 – Orhan Pamuk, Turkish-American novelist, screenwriter, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

1953 – Johnny Clegg, English-South African singer-songwriter and guitarist

1954 – Louise Erdrich, American novelist and poet

1955 – William Forsythe, American actor and producer

1958 – Prince, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor (d. 2016)

1959 – Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States

1978 – Bill Hader, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter

1981 – Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player

1988 – Michael Cera, Canadian actor

On this day in history…

1862 – The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.

1892 – Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.

1893 – Mohandas Gandhi commits his first act of civil disobedience.

1899 – American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.

1905 – Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.

1965 – The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.

1967 – Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.

1975 – The inaugural Cricket World Cup begins in England.

1977 – 500,000,000 people watch the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television.

1981 – The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.

1982 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.

1991 – Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high.