UNIVERSAL UCLICK ALMANAC
Today is the 154th day of 2013 and the 76th day of spring.
TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1965, Edward H. White II, an astronaut on Gemini IV, became the first American to "walk" in space.
In 1979, the Ixtoc I oil well in the Gulf of Mexico blew out, spilling more than 600,000 tons of oil over an area of 1,100 square miles.
In 2006, Montenegro formally declared its independence from the Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), president of the Confederate States of America; Raoul Dufy (1877-1953), artist; Tony Curtis (1925-2010), actor; Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), poet; Chuck Barris (1929- ), game show host; Larry McMurtry (1936- ), author; Curtis Mayfield (1942-1999), songwriter/musician; Anderson Cooper (1967- ), TV journalist; Rafael Nadal (1986- ), tennis player.
TODAY'S FACT: According to the results of the 1860 census, the slave population outnumbered the free population in two states: Mississippi and South Carolina.
TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1888, the comic baseball poem "Casey at the Bat," by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, was published in the San Francisco Examiner.
TODAY'S QUOTE: "You don't have to be right. All you have to do is be candid." -- Allen Ginsberg
TODAY'S NUMBER: 25 -- length, in feet, of the tether attaching Edward H. White II to the Gemini spacecraft during the first U.S. spacewalk.
TODAY'S MOON: Between last quarter moon (May 31) and new moon (June 8).