ANDREWS MCMEEL ALMANAC

Today is the 154th day of 2025 and the 76th day of spring.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed into law the National Defense Act, expanding the size and scope of the U.S. National Guard.

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 126 million gallons of oil over an area of 1,100 square miles.

In 2017, eight people were killed and dozens injured when terrorists crashed a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and attacked the crowd with knives.

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 (1929-2017), game show host; Raul Castro (1931- ), president of Cuba; Larry McMurtry (1936-2021), author; Curtis Mayfield (1942-1999), singer-songwriter/musician; Anderson Cooper (1967- ), TV journalist; John Hodgman (1971- ), author/actor; Rafael Nadal (1986- ), tennis player.

TODAY'S FACT: According to the results of the 1860 census, the population of enslaved people outnumbered the white and formerly enslaved populations combined 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 San Francisco's Daily Examiner.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "'I'm sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning. If we just didn't have to have the rest of the dern day I'd be a lot happier.'" -- Larry McMurtry, "Lonesome Dove"

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 first quarter moon (June 2) and full moon (June 11).

ANDREWS MCMEEL ALMANAC

Today is the 153rd day of 2025 and the 75th day of spring.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1886, President Grover Cleveland married Frances Folsom, becoming the first (and only, to date) president to marry in a White House ceremony.

In 1924, an act of Congress granted Native Americans U.S. citizenship.

In 1997, Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

In 2012, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the deaths of hundreds of protesters during a 2011 uprising.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), author/politician; Pope Pius X (1835-1914), Roman Catholic leader; Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), poet/novelist; Edward Elgar (1857-1934), composer; Johnny Weissmuller (1904-1984), swimmer/actor; Charlie Watts (1941-2021), drummer; Marvin Hamlisch (1944-2012), composer; Andy Cohen (1968- ), TV host; Wayne Brady (1972- ), actor/comedian; Zachary Quinto (1977- ), actor; Dominic Cooper (1978- ), actor; Justin Long (1978- ), actor; Morena Baccarin (1979- ), actress; Abby Wambach (1980- ), soccer player; Awkwafina (1988- ), actress/comedian.

TODAY'S FACT: The White House has hosted 19 weddings, nine of which were for children of sitting presidents.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1935, baseball legend Babe Ruth retired after 22 seasons, finishing his career with seven World Series titles and 714 home runs.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "For of all the miseries attaching to miserable love, the worst is the misery of thinking that the passion which is the cause of them all may cease." -- Thomas Hardy, "A Pair of Blue Eyes"

TODAY'S NUMBER: 336,337 -- official Native American population in 1920, according to the U.S. census.

TODAY'S MOON: First quarter moon (June 2).

ANDREWS MCMEEL ALMANAC

Today is the 152nd day of 2025 and the 74th day of spring.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1792, Kentucky was admitted as the 15th U.S. state.

In 1796, Tennessee was admitted as the 16th U.S. state.

In 1990, President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev signed an accord to halt production of chemical weapons.

In 2009, General Motors Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Brigham Young (1801-1877), religious leader; Andy Griffith (1926-2012), actor; Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), actress; Pat Boone (1934- ), singer-songwriter; Morgan Freeman (1937- ), actor; Brian Cox (1946- ), actor; Jonathan Pryce (1947- ), actor; Ronnie Wood (1947- ), guitarist; Powers Boothe (1948-2017), actor; Heidi Klum (1973- ), model/TV personality; Alanis Morissette (1974- ), singer-songwriter; Amy Schumer (1981- ), actress/comedian; Justine Henin (1982- ), tennis player; Tom Holland (1996- ), actor.

TODAY'S FACT: The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," released on this day in 1967, was the first rock album to win a Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1925, Lou Gehrig pinch-hit for the New York Yankees, marking the first game in Gehrig's record-setting streak of 2,130 consecutive games played.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring." -- Morgan Freeman

TODAY'S NUMBER: 25 -- missions flown over 19 years of service for the space shuttle Endeavor; the orbiter returned to Earth from its final spaceflight on this day in 2011.

TODAY'S MOON: Between new moon (May 26) and first quarter moon (June 2).