Today Tuesday, the 23rd of May of 2017 is the 143rd day of the year.
There are 222 days remaining until the end of the year.
532 days until Congressional Elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018
1260 days until the next Presidential Election on Tuesday November 3, 2020
The sun rose this morning at 5:53 am
and the sun will set tonight at 8:20 pm.
Today we will have 14 hours and 27 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 1:07 pm.
The first low tide was at 4:14 am
and the next low tide will be at 3:59 pm.
The first high tide will be at 10:51 am
and the next high tide at 10:30 pm.
The Moon is 8.1% illuminated; a Waning Crescent moon
Moon Direction: ↑ 85.25° E
Moon Altitude: 4.91°
Moon Distance: 225712 mi
Next New Moon: May 25, 2017 at 12:44 pm
Next Full Moon: Jun 9, 2017 at 6:09 am
Next Moonset: Today at 5:59 pm
Today is...
International Day to End Obstetric Fistula
Lucky Penny Day
National Taffy Day
World Crohn's and Colitis Day
Today is also...
Constitution Day in Germany
Declaration of the Báb in the Bahá'í Faith
Labour Day in Jamaica
Students' Day in Mexico
World Turtle Day
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with...
1810 – Margaret Fuller, American journalist and critic (d. 1850)
1883 – Douglas Fairbanks, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1939)
1891 – Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
1892 – Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer, British peer and grandfather of Diana Spencer (d. 1975)
1910 – Margaret Wise Brown, American author and educator (d. 1952)
1910 – Scatman Crothers, American actor and comedian (d. 1986)
1910 – Artie Shaw, American clarinet player, composer, and bandleader (d. 2004)
1915 – S. Donald Stookey, American physicist and chemist, invented CorningWare (d. 2014)
1926 – Joe Slovo, Lithuanian-South African politician (d. 1995)
1928 – Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (d. 2002)
1931 – Barbara Barrie, American actress
1933 – Joan Collins, English actress
1934 – Robert Moog, American businessman, invented the Moog synthesizer (d. 2005)
1950 – Martin McGuinness, Irish republican and Sinn Féin politician, Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland
1951 – Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player
1955 – Luka Bloom, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1958 – Mitch Albom, American journalist, author, and screenwriter
1958 – Drew Carey, American actor, game show host, and entrepreneur
1974 – Jewel, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actress, and poet
On this day in history...
1430 – Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to raise the Siege of Compiègne.
1533 – The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void..
1788 – South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution as the eighth American state.
1829 – Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna, Austrian Empire.
1844 – Declaration of the Báb the evening before the 23rd: A merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that would later be brutally crushed by the Persian government. He is considered to be a forerunner of the Bahá'í Faith, and Bahá'ís celebrate the day as a holy day.
1873 – The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
1911 – The New York Public Library is dedicated.
1934 – Infamous American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
1995 – The first version of the Java programming language is released.
1998 – The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with roughly 75% voting yes.
2002 – The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto Protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.