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).

ANDREWS MCMEEL ALMANAC

Today is the 151st day of 2025 and the 73rd day of spring.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1790, President George Washington signed the first U.S. copyright law.

In 1889, the failure of the South Fork Dam on Pennsylvania's Lake Conemaugh caused a huge flood that engulfed Johnstown, claiming 2,208 lives.

In 1970, an undersea earthquake off the coast of the Ancash region of Peru caused a massive avalanche that resulted in approximately 70,000 fatalities.

In 2005, an article in Vanity Fair magazine revealed that former FBI official W. Mark Felt was the anonymous Watergate scandal whistleblower known as "Deep Throat."

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Walt Whitman (1819-1892), poet/journalist; Pope Pius XI (1857-1939), Roman Catholic leader; Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), religious leader/author; Clint Eastwood (1930- ), actor/director; Johnny Paycheck (1938-2003), singer-songwriter; Joe Namath (1943- ), football player; John Bonham (1948-1980), drummer; Tom Berenger (1949- ), actor; Lea Thompson (1961- ), actress; Darryl "DMC" McDaniels (1964- ), rapper/producer; Brooke Shields (1965- ), actress; Archie Panjabi (1972- ), actress; Colin Farrell (1976- ), actor.

TODAY'S FACT: Copyright laws established in 1998 state that copyright protections last for the lifetime of the author plus an additional 70 years.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1937, New York Giants pitcher Carl Hubbell's 24-game winning streak came to an end with a 10-3 loss to the Brooklyn Robins.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "Medicine, law, business, engineering ... these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love... these are what we stay alive for." -- Walt Whitman

TODAY'S NUMBER: 2.6 -- diameter (in miles) of the widest tornado in recorded history, an EF5 tornado that struck El Reno, Oklahoma, on this day in 2013.

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