Today is Monday, the 24th of June of 2019 is the 175th day of the year....
190 days remain until the end of the year.
498 days until presidential elections Tuesday November 3, 2020...
(1 year 4 months and 10 days from today)
And it’s Day 17 of the Women’s World Cup.
The sun is rising right now at 5:49 am
and the sun will set tonight at 8:36 pm.
Today we will have 14 hours and 47 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 1:12 pm.
the first high tide was at 4:31 am
and the next high tide will be at 6:29 pm.
The only low tide of the day will be at 11:07 am.
The Moon is currently 58.8% visible
A Waning Gibbous
Moon Direction:146.35° SSE↑
Moon Altitude:38.25°
Moon Distance:250850 mi
Next New Moon: Tuesday July 2, 2019 at 12:16 pm
Next Full Moon: Tuesday July 16, 2019 at 2:38 pm
Next Moonset: Today at 12:35 pm
Today is….
Please Take My Children to Work Day
Today is also…
Army Day or Battle of Carabobo Day in Venezuela
Day of the Caboclo in Amazonas, Brazil
Discovery Day, in Newfoundland and Labrador
Inti Raymi, a winter solstice festival and a New Year in the Andes of the Southern Hemisphere
St John's Day and the second day of the Midsummer celebrations and its related observances:
Saint Jonas' Festival or Joninės in Lithuania
Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day in Quebec
Sânziene in the western Carpathian Mountains of Romania
Wattah Wattah Festival in Philippines
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you! You share this special day with…
1813 – Henry Ward Beecher, American minister and reformer (d. 1887)
1842 – Ambrose Bierce, American short story writer, essayist, and journalist (d. 1914)
1893 – Roy O. Disney, American businessman, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (d. 1971)
1895 – Jack Dempsey, American boxer and soldier (d. 1983)
1901 – Harry Partch, American composer and theorist (d. 1974)
1937 – Anita Desai, Indian-American author and academic
1938 – Lawrence Block, American author
1941 – Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French psychoanalyst and author
1942 – Arthur Brown, English rock singer-songwriter
1942 – Mick Fleetwood, English-American drummer
1944 – Jeff Beck, English guitarist and songwriter
1945 – George Pataki, American lawyer and politician, 53rd Governor of New York
1946 – Robert Reich, American economist and politician, 22nd United States Secretary of Labor
1979 – Mindy Kaling, American actress and producer
1986 – Solange Knowles, American singer-songwriter and actress
…and on this day in history….
1880 – First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.
1916 – Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
1922 – The American Professional Football Association is renamed the National Football League.
1947 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
1948 – Cold War: Start of the Berlin Blockade: The Soviet Union makes overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin impossible.
1949 – The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd.
1957 – In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
1995 – "Rugby World Cup final": South Africa defeats New Zealand, Nelson Mandela presents Francois Pienaar with the Webb-Ellis trophy in an iconic post-apartheid moment
2004 – In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
2010 – Julia Gillard assumes office as the first female Prime Minister of Australia.
2013 – Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is found guilty of abusing his power and having sex with an underage prostitute, and is sentenced to seven years in prison.