Today is Thursday, the 2nd of June of 2022
June 2 is the 153rd day of the year
212 days remain until the end of the year.
19 days until summer begins
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 5:48:56 am
and sunset will be at 8:27:32 pm.
We will have 14 hours and 38 minutes of daylight
The solar transit will be at 1:08:14 pm.
The first high tide will be at 12:10 am at 5.75 feet
The first low tide will be at 7:32 am at -0.62 feet
The next high tide at 3:05 pm at 4.48 feet
and the final low tide at Ocean Beach tonight will be at 7:22 pm at 3.42 feet
The Moon is currently 8.4% visible
It’s a Waxing Crescent moon
We’ll have the First Quarter Moon in 5 days on Tuesday the 7th of June of 2022 at 7:48 am
Today is….
American Indian Citizenship Day
National Leave the Office Early Day
National Rotisserie Chicken Day
Yell "Fudge" at the Cobras in North America Day
Today is also…
Civil Aviation Day in Azerbaijan
Coronation of King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, also Social Forestry Day in Bhutan
Day of Hristo Botev in Bulgaria
Festa della Repubblica in Italy
Telangana Day in Telangana state, India
On this day in history….
455 – Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks.
1835 – P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.
1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
1910 – Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey becomes the first British coronation and one of the first major international events to be televised.
1962 – During the FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history.
1964 – The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is formed.
1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
1997 – In Denver, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, in which 168 people died. He was executed four years later.
…and if today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this special day with…
1731 – Martha Washington, First Lady of the United States (d. 1802)
1740 – Marquis de Sade, French philosopher and politician (d. 1814)
1840 – Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet (d. 1928)
1857 – Edward Elgar, English composer and educator (d. 1934)
1904 – Johnny Weissmuller, Hungarian-American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)
1913 – Barbara Pym, English author (d. 1980)
1918 – Ruth Atkinson, Canadian-American illustrator (d. 1997)
1921 – Betty Freeman, American photographer and philanthropist (d. 2009)
1929 – Norton Juster, American architect, author, and academic (d. 2021)
1937 – Sally Kellerman, American actress (d. 2022)
1941 – Stacy Keach, American actor
1941 – Charlie Watts, English drummer, songwriter, and producer (d. 2021)
1944 – Robert Elliott, American actor (d. 2004)
1944 – Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and conductor (d. 2012)
1948 – Jerry Mathers, American actor
1953 – Cornel West, American philosopher, author, and academic
1959 – Lydia Lunch, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
1972 – Wayne Brady, American actor, comedian, game show host, and singer
1977 – Zachary Quinto, American actor and producer
