Today is Thursday, the 1st of June of 2023
June 1 is the 152nd day of the year
213 days remain until the end of the year.
20 days until summer begins
The sun rose this morning at 5:49:22 am
and sunset will be at 8:26:44 pm
Today we will have 14 hours and 37 minutes of sun. The solar transit will be at 1:08:03 pm.
Water temperature in San Francisco Bay today is 60.6°F.
The first low tide was at 3:46 am at -0.02 feet
The first high tide will be at 10:18 am at 4.11 feet
The next low tide will be at 3:07 pm at 2.25 feet
and the final high tide at Ocean Beach will be at 9:19 pm at 6.11 feet
The Moon is currently 91.7% visible
It’s a Waxing Gibbous Moon
We’ll have a Full Moon in 3 days on Saturday the 3rd of June of 2023 at 8:42 pm
Today is….
New Year's Resolution Recommitment Day
Today is also…
The Day of Protection of Children Rights in Armenia
Mothers' and Children's Day in Mongolia
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Samoa from New Zealand in 1962.
National Maritime Day in Mexico
National Tree Planting Day in Cambodia
The beginning of Crop over, celebrated until the first Monday of August. in Barbados
On this day in history…
1533 – Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
1857 – Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal is published.
1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
1916 – Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
1950 – The Declaration of Conscience speech, by U.S. Senator from Maine, Margaret Chase Smith, is delivered in response to Joseph R. McCarthy's speech at Wheeling, West Virginia.
1958 – Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
1964 – Kenya becomes a republic with Jomo Kenyatta as its first President.
1974 – The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
1975 – The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was founded by Jalal Talabani, Nawshirwan Mustafa, Fuad Masum and others.
1979 – The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
1990 – Cold War: George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
2009 – General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your special day with….
1801 – Brigham Young, American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1877)
1804 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)[19]
1890 – Frank Morgan, American actor (d. 1949)
1921 – Nelson Riddle, American composer and bandleader (d. 1985)
1926 – Andy Griffith, American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
1926 – Marilyn Monroe, American model and actress (d. 1962)
1934 – Pat Boone, American singer-songwriter and actor
1935 – Reverend Ike, American minister and television host (d. 2009)
1937 – Morgan Freeman, American actor and producer
1939 – Cleavon Little, American actor and comedian (d. 1992)
1940 – René Auberjonois, American actor (d. 2019)
1947 – Ronnie Wood, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1973 – Heidi Klum, German-American model, fashion designer, and producer
1974 – Alanis Morissette, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress
1981 – Brandi Carlile, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1981 – Amy Schumer, American comedian and actress
1984 – Nikki Glaser, American comedian
...and here's Yesterday's Almanac...
Today is Wednesday, the 31st of May of 2023,
May 31 is the 151st day of the year
214 days remain until the end of the year.
21 days until summer begins
The sun rose this morning at 5:49:45 am
and the sun sets tonight at 8:26:05 pm.
We will have 14 hours and 36 minutes of daylight
Solar noon will be at 1:07:55 pm.
Water temperature in San Francisco Bay today is 60.6°F
The first high tide will be at later this morning at 9:16 am at 3.91
feet
The next low tide will be this afternoon at 2:26 pm at 1.86 feet
and the final high tide tonight at Ocean Beach will be at 8:47 pm at 5.83 feet
The Moon is currently 86% visible
It’s a Waxing Gibbous moon
We’ll have a Full Moon in 3 days on Saturday the 3rd of June of 2023 at 8:42
pm
Today is…
National Autonomous Vehicle Day
National Senior Health & Fitness Day
Necro-tizing Fasci-itis Awareness Day
Speak in Complete Sentences Day
Today is also…
Anniversary of Royal Brunei Malay Regiment in Brunei
The beginning of Gawai Dayak in Sarawak, Malaysia and West Kali-man-tan, Indonesia
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this special day with…
…and on this day in history…
1790 – The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
1859 – The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time.
1879 – Gilmore's Garden in New York City is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
1909 – The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first time.
1911 – The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1955 – The U.S. Supreme Court expands on its Brown v. Board of Education decision by ordering district courts and school districts to enforce educational desegregation "at all deliberate speed."
1971 – In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
2008 – Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal (+1.7 m/s) 9.72 seconds