Today Thursday, 8th of June of 2017 is the 159th day of the year.
There are 206 days remaining until the end of the year.
516 days until Congressional Elections on Tuesday Nov. 6, 2018
1244 days until Presidential Elections Nov. 3, 2020
The sun rose at 5:47 am
and the sun will set tonight at 8:31 pm.
Today we will have 14 hours and 44 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 1:09 pm.
The first low tide is right now at 5:49 am
The first high tide will be at 12:55 pm
The next low tide at 5:28 pm this afternoon,
and the final high tide at 11:34 pm tonight
The Moon is 98.9% illuminated; a Waxing Gibbous moon
Next Full Moon: Jun 9, 2017 at 6:09 am
Next New Moon: Jun 23, 2017 at 7:30 pm
Next Moonset: Today at 5:30 am
Moon Direction: ↑ 246.30° WSW
Moon Altitude: 2.45°
Moon Distance: 252488 mi
Today is...
Best Friends Day
Betty Picnic Day, a day to celebrate anyone named Betty.
Jelly-Filled Doughnut Day
Name Your Poison Day
Upsy Daisy Day
It's also...
Bounty Day on Norfolk Island
Caribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Engineer's Day in Peru
Primož Trubar Day in Slovenia
World Brain Tumor Day
World Oceans Day
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
1671 – Tomaso Albinoni, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1751)
1810 – Robert Schumann, German composer and critic (d. 1856)
1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater (d. 1959)
1903 – Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-French author and poet (d. 1987)
1918 – Robert Preston, American captain, actor, and singer (d. 1987)
1921 – Gordon McLendon, American broadcaster and businessman (d. 1986)
1921 – Suharto, Indonesian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Indonesia (d. 2008)
1924 – Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and author (d. 2006)
1925 – Barbara Bush, American wife of George H. W. Bush, 41st First Lady of the United States
1933 – Joan Rivers, American comedian, actress, and television host (d. 2014)
1940 – Nancy Sinatra, American singer and actress
1943 – William Calley, American lieutenant
1944 – Boz Scaggs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1947 – Sara Paretsky, American author
1950 – Sônia Braga, Brazilian actress and producer
1951 – Tony Rice, American guitarist and songwriter
1958 – Keenen Ivory Wayans, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1970 – Gabrielle Giffords, American businesswoman and politician
1970 – Kwame Kilpatrick, American educator and politician, 68th Mayor of Detroit
1977 – Kanye West, American rapper, producer, director, and fashion designer
1979 – Derek Trucks, American guitarist and songwriter
1981 – Sara Watkins, American singer-songwriter and fiddler
On this day in history…
632 – Muhammad, Islamic prophet, dies in Medina.
793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of Norse activity in the British Isles.
1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in Congress.
1845 – Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, died in Nashville, Tenn., at age 78, 20 years before the Civil War
1861 – Tennessee seceded from the Union.
1864 – Abraham Lincoln was nominated for a second term as president at the Republican Party convention in Baltimore.
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
1915 – Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned in a disagreement over U.S. handling of the sinking of the Lusitania.
1948 – The "Texaco Star Theater" made its debut on NBC-TV with Milton Berle as guest host.
1949 – Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
1949 – George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
1953 – The Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in the District of Columbia could not refuse to serve blacks.
On June 8, 1968, authorities announced the capture in London of James Earl Ray, the suspected assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
1969 – The New York Yankees retired Mickey Mantle's uniform No. 7 during "Mickey Mantle Day" at Yankee Stadium.
1972 – Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut moments later while the young girl is seen running down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo.
1984 – Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
1987 – New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.
1987 – Fawn Hall, secretary to national security aide Oliver L. North, testified at the Iran-Contra hearings, saying she had helped to shred some documents.
1995 – U.S. Marines rescued Capt. Scott O'Grady, whose F16-C fighter jet had been shot down by Bosnian Serbs on June 2.
1998 – The National Rifle Association elected actor Charlton Heston its president.
2001 – British Prime Minister Tony Blair was elected to a second term in a landslide.