Today Tuesday, 27th of June of 2017 is the 178th day of the year.
There are 187 days remaining until the end of the year.
497 days until Congressional Elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018.
1225 days until Presidential Election on Tuesday November 3, 2020
The sun has risen at 5:50 am
and the sun will set tonight at 8:36 pm.
Today we will have 14 hours and 46 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 1:13 pm.
The first high tide was at 2:04 am
and the next high tide will be at 4:03 pm.
The first low tide will be at 8:45 am
and the next low tide at 9:08 pm.
The Moon is 15.7% illuminated; a Waxing Crescent moon
Moon Direction: ↑ 12.88° NNE
Moon Altitude: -38.34°
Moon Distance: 230977 mi
Next Full Moon: July 8, 2017 at 9:06 pm
Next New Moon: July 23, 2017 at 2:45 am
Next Moonrise: Today at 9:56 am
Today is...
"Happy Birthday to You" Day
Decide to Be Married Day
Helen Keller Day
Industrial Workers of the World Day
International Ragweed Day
National HIV Testing Day
National Indian Pudding Day
National Orange Blossom Day
National Pineapple Day
National Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Day
Sunglasses Day
It's also
Canadian Multiculturalism Day
Commemoration Day for the Victims of the Communist Regime in the Czech Republic
Day of Turkmen Workers of Culture and Art
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Djibouti from France in 1977.
Mixed Race Day in Brazil
Seven Sleepers' Day or Siebenschläfertag in Germany
Unity Day in Tajikistan
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with
1838 – Paul Mauser, German weapon designer, designed the Gewehr 98 (d. 1914)
1846 – Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (d. 1891)
1850 – Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-Japanese historian and author (d. 1904)
1869 – Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-Canadian philosopher and activist (d. 1940)
1872 – Paul Laurence Dunbar, American author, poet, and playwright (d. 1906)
1880 – Helen Keller, American author, academic, and activist (d. 1968)
1925 – Doc Pomus, American singer-songwriter (d. 1991)
1929 – Peter Maas, American journalist and author (d. 2001)
1930 – Ross Perot, American businessman and politician
1936 – Lucille Clifton, American author and poet (d. 2010)
1938 – Bruce Babbitt, American lawyer and politician, 47th United States Secretary of the Interior
1942 – Danny Schechter, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1953 – Alice McDermott, American novelist
1966 – J.J. Abrams, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1984 – Khloé Kardashian, American model, businesswoman, and radio host
1986 – Sam Claflin, British actor
On this day in history...
1895 – The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
1969 – Patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, clashed with police in an incident considered to be the birth of the gay rights movement.
1971 – After only three years in business, rock promoter Bill Graham closes Fillmore East in New York, the "Church of Rock and Roll".
1972 – The video game company Atari was founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in Santa Clara, Calif.
1974 – U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.
1977 – France grants independence to Djibouti.
1980 – President Jimmy Carter signed legislation reviving draft registration.
1981 – The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issues its "Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China", laying the blame for the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong.
1985 – Route 66, which originally stretched from Chicago to Santa Monica, Calif., passed into history as officials decertified the road.
1991 – Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War.
1994 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan; Seven people are killed, 660 injured.
2011 – Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was convicted by a federal jury in Chicago of corruption. (He was later sentenced to 14 years in prison.)