ANDREWS MCMEEL ALMANAC

Today is the 155th day of 2025 and the 77th day of spring.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1912, Massachusetts became the first U.S. state to pass a minimum wage law.

In 1917, the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded.

In 1942, the Battle of Midway began as the Japanese navy launched a raid on Midway Island.

In 1989, Chinese government troops and tanks crushed a massive demonstration of pro-democracy protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.

In 1998, Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Robert Merrill (1917-2004), opera singer; Dennis Weaver (1924-2006), actor; Ruth Westheimer (1928-2024), therapist/media personality; Bruce Dern (1936- ), actor; Mortimer Zuckerman (1937- ), publisher/real estate executive; Michelle Phillips (1944- ), singer-songwriter/actress; Keith David (1956- ), actor; John Hockenberry (1956- ), journalist/author; Rob Huebel (1969- ), actor/comedian; Noah Wyle (1971- ), actor; Angelina Jolie (1975- ), actress; T.J. Miller (1981- ), actor.

TODAY'S FACT: The Treasury Department estimates that union members earn about 20% higher wages than their nonunion counterparts.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1927, the United States won golf's first-ever Ryder Cup at the Worcester Country Club in Massachusetts.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart." -- Angelina Jolie

TODAY'S NUMBER: 23 -- Pulitzer Prizes normally awarded each year. Online-only news organizations were eligible for 14 journalism prizes for the first time in 2009.

TODAY'S MOON: Between first quarter moon (June 2) and full moon (June 11).

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).