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Almanac - Thursday 6/21/18

enjoying the beautiful weather with some Yoga, taken by flickr user Gedalya AKA David Gott

Today is Thursday, the 21st of June of 2018

It is the 172nd day of the year.

There are 193 days remaining until the end of the year...

138 days until mid-term elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018

(4 months and 16 days from today)

866 days until presidential elections on Tuesday November 3, 2020

(2 years 4 months and 13 days from today)

The sun just rose now at 5:48 am 

and sunset will be at 8:36 pm.

Today we will have 14 hours and 48 minutes of daylight.

Solar noon will be at 1:12 pm.

The first low tide was at 1:13 am

and the next low tide will be at 12:46 pm.

The first high tide will be at 6:57 am 

and the next high tide at 7:49 pm.

Pollen count is a medium 5.9 but will rise to a medium high at 7.9 this weekend.

The Moon is currently 61.6% visible; a Waxing Gibbous

Moon Direction:↑ 306.27° NW

Moon Altitude:-39.22°

Moon Distance: 238355 mi

Next Full Moon: Wednesday June 27, 2018 at 9:53 pm

Next New Moon: Thursday July 12, 2018 at 7:47 pm

Next Moonrise: Today at 2:33 pm

Today is…

Anne and Samantha Day

Atheist Solidarity Day

Cuckoo Warning Day

Go Skateboarding Day

International Day of Yoga

International Surfing Day

National Daylight Appreciation Day

National Dump the Pump Day

National Peaches and Cream Day

National Seashell Day

National Selfie Day

Recess at Work Day

The First Day of Summer

The Longest Day

World Giraffe Day

World Handshake Day

World Music Day

World Peace and Prayer Day

It’s also…
Day of the Martyrs in Togo

Father's Day in EgyptLebanonJordanSyriaUganda

PakistanUnited Arab Emirates

International T-Shirt Day

National Aboriginal Day in Canada

World Humanist Day

World Hydrography Day

If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You!  You share this day with…

1732 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German pianist and composer (d. 1791)

1892 – Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian and academic (d. 1971)

1903 – Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist, painter and illustrator (d. 2003)

1905 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author (d. 1980)

1912 – Mary McCarthy, American novelist and critic (d. 1989)

1921 – Jane Russell, American actress and singer (d. 2011)

1925 – Maureen Stapleton, American actress (d. 2006)

1931 – Margaret Heckler, American journalist, lawyer, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services

1932 – Lalo Schifrin, Argentinian pianist, composer, and conductor

1933 – Bernie Kopell, American actor and comedian

1941 – Joe Flaherty, American-Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter

1944 – Ray Davies, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

1951 – Nils Lofgren, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1953 – Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani financier and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 2007)

1957 – Berkeley Breathed, American author and illustrator

1959 – Kathy Mattea, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1966 – Gretchen Carlson, American model and television journalist, Miss America 1989

1979 – Chris Pratt, American actor

1982 – Prince William, Duke of Cambridge

…and on this day in history…

1749 – Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.

1788 – New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States and is admitted as the ninth state in the United States.

1915 – The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks.

1964 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew GoodmanJames Chaney and Mickey Schwernerare murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

1973 – In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for obscenity in U.S. law.

1978 – The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musicalEvita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opened at the Prince Edward TheatreLondon.

1989 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Texas v. Johnson that American flag-burning was a form of political protest protected by the First Amendment.

2000 – Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.

2005 – Edgar Ray Killen, who had previously been unsuccessfully tried for the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, is convicted of manslaughter 41 years afterwards (the case had been reopened in 2004).

2006 – Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.

2009 – Greenland assumes self-rule.