Today is Monday, the 19th of June of 2023,
June 19 is the 170th day of the year
195 days remain until the end of the year.
2 days until summer begins
Summer Solstice will be Wednesday, June 21, 2023 at 7:57 AM
The sun rose this morning at 5:47:42 am
and the sun will set this evening at 8:35:03 pm.
Today we have 14 hours and 47 minutes of daylight
Solar noon will be at 1:11:22 pm.
Water temperature in San Francisco Bay today is 63.1°F.
The first low tide will be at 6:33 am at -0.9 feet
The first high tide will be at 1:55 pm at 4.77 feet
The next low tide at 6:16 pm at 3.37 feet
and the final low tide tonight at Ocean Beach will be at 11:48 pm at 6.04 feet
The Moon is currently 2.0% visible
It’s a Waxing Crescent moon
We’ll have the First Quarter Moon a week from today Monday the26th of June of 2023 at 12:50 am
Today is…
Today is also…
Day of the Independent Hungary
Feast of Forest in Palawan province in The Philippines
Labour Day in Trinidad and Tobago
Laguna Day in Laguna province in The Philippines
Birthday of Jose Gervasio Artigas, a national hero in Uruguay
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this special day with…
1861 – José Rizal, Filipino journalist, author, and poet (d. 1896)
1896 – Wallis Simpson, American wife of Edward VIII (d. 1986)
1897 – Moe Howard, American comedian (d. 1975)
1902 – Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and bandleader (d. 1977)
1903 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941)
1914 – Alan Cranston, American journalist and politician (d. 2000)
1914 – Lester Flatt, American bluegrass singer-songwriter, guitarist, and mandolin player (d. 1979)
1917 – Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwean guerrilla leader and politician, Vice President of Zimbabwe (d. 1999)
1919 – Pauline Kael, American film critic (d. 2001)
1928 – Nancy Marchand, American actress (d. 2000)
1945 – Radovan Karadžić, Serbian-Bosnian politician and convicted war criminal, 1st President of Republika Srpska
1945 – Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, Nobel Prize laureate
1945 – Tobias Wolff, American short story writer, memoirist, and novelist
1947 – Salman Rushdie, Indian-English novelist and essayist
1948 – Nick Drake, English singer-songwriter (d. 1974)
1948 – Phylicia Rashad, American actress
1950 – Ann Wilson, American singer-songwriter and musician
1962 – Paula Abdul, American singer-songwriter, dancer, actress, and presenter
1963 – Laura Ingraham, American radio host and author
1964 – Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and former Mayor of London
1970 – Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician
1978 – Zoe Saldana, American actress
1983 – Macklemore, American rapper
1999 – Jordan Poole, American basketball player
…and on this day in history….
1846 – The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23–1. Cartwright umpired.
1862 – Congress prohibits slavery in all current and future United States territories (though not in the states), and President Lincoln quickly signed the legislation.
1865 – Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are officially informed of their freedom. The anniversary was officially celebrated in Texas and other states as Juneteenth. On June 17, 2021, Juneteenth officially became a federal holiday in the United States.
1910 – The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
1934 – The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
1960 – The first NASCAR race was held at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
1961 – Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
1964 – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
1978 – Garfield's first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication.
1990 – The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
2012 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requested asylum in London's Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents including footage of civilian killings by the US army.
