🇵🇷 Birthday of Jose de Diego (Puerto Rico) 🐘 Day of the Mushroom 🐘 National Angel Day 🐘 National Bean Counter Day 🐘 National Cash Day 🐘 National Eggs Benedict Day 🐘 National Healthcare Decisions Day 🐘 National Librarian Day 🐘 National Orchid Day 🐘 National Reveal the Genius Within Day 🐘 Save the Elephant Day 🐘 Salena Day 🐘 Teach Your Daughter to Volunteer Day 🐘 Wear Pajamas to Work Day 🐘 World Semicolon Day 🐘 World Voice Day 🌔Today’s Moon Phase is a Waxing Gibbous phase. Visible through most of the night sky setting a few hours before sunrise. This phase is when the moon is more than 50% illuminated but not yet a Full Moon. The phase lasts about 7 days with the moon becoming more illuminated each day until the Full Moon. Phase: Waxing Gibbous Illumination: 57% Moon Age: 8.02 days Moon Angle: 0.50 Moon Distance: 398,163.97 km Sun Angle: 0.53 Sun Distance: 150,180,817.76 km Today in History: Oprah on Mad Cow Disease: "It has just stopped me cold from eating another burger." (1996), First Woman Inducted into the National Comedy Hall of Fame (1994), Polio Vaccine Drive Begins (1955), Texas City Disaster (1947), First LSD Trip (1943), Emancipation Day Proclaimed In Washington DC (1862), Genetic Engineering Tech Made Patentable (1987), First US Birth of a Surrogate Test-tube Baby (1986), Roy C. Sullivan Struck by Lightning for 4th of Seven Times (1972), Book of the Month Club Founder (1926), First Book Stamps Sold (1900), Basis Laid for Demilitarized US-British North America Border (1818), First Passenger Train Travels the Great Indian Peninsula Railway (1853), Nazi Government Installed in Croatia (1941), "Cold War" First Used to Describe US-Russia Conflict (1947), Former Eastern Bloc Countries Admitted to EU (2003), First Woman Flies across English Channel (1912), MLK Jr. Writes Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963) Media of the Day: MLK Jr. Writes Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)
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🇵🇷 Birthday of Jose de Diego (Puerto Rico) 🐘 Day of the Mushroom 🐘 National Angel Day 🐘 National Bean Counter Day 🐘 National Cash Day 🐘 National Eggs Benedict Day 🐘 National Healthcare Decisions Day 🐘 National Librarian Day 🐘 National Orchid Day 🐘 National Reveal the Genius Within Day 🐘 Save the Elephant Day 🐘 Salena Day 🐘 Teach Your Daughter to Volunteer Day 🐘 Wear Pajamas to Work Day 🐘 World Semicolon Day 🐘 World Voice Day 🌔Today’s Moon Phase is a Waxing Gibbous phase. Visible through most of the night sky setting a few hours before sunrise. This phase is when the moon is more than 50% illuminated but not yet a Full Moon. The phase lasts about 7 days with the moon becoming more illuminated each day until the Full Moon. Phase: Waxing Gibbous Illumination: 57% Moon Age: 8.02 days Moon Angle: 0.50 Moon Distance: 398,163.97 km Sun Angle: 0.53 Sun Distance: 150,180,817.76 km Today in History: Oprah on Mad Cow Disease: "It has just stopped me cold from eating another burger." (1996), First Woman Inducted into the National Comedy Hall of Fame (1994), Polio Vaccine Drive Begins (1955), Texas City Disaster (1947), First LSD Trip (1943), Emancipation Day Proclaimed In Washington DC (1862), Genetic Engineering Tech Made Patentable (1987), First US Birth of a Surrogate Test-tube Baby (1986), Roy C. Sullivan Struck by Lightning for 4th of Seven Times (1972), Book of the Month Club Founder (1926), First Book Stamps Sold (1900), Basis Laid for Demilitarized US-British North America Border (1818), First Passenger Train Travels the Great Indian Peninsula Railway (1853), Nazi Government Installed in Croatia (1941), "Cold War" First Used to Describe US-Russia Conflict (1947), Former Eastern Bloc Countries Admitted to EU (2003), First Woman Flies across English Channel (1912), MLK Jr. Writes Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963) Media of the Day: MLK Jr. Writes Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)