ALMANAC for April-May 2000

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17 Venus and Jupiter too close to the sun in sky to view but engage in closest conjunction with each other since 1896 - they are only about 1/100° apart; sun and five bright planets now are contained within a span of just 19 1/2° in Earth's sky - but sun's brightness renders virtually all of them unviewable.

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18 FULL MOON, 3:34 A.M. EDT; great eruption of Mount Saint Helens in Washington on this day 20 years ago.

19 Famous"Dark Day" in 1780, when noon was almost as dark as night across New England - caused by smoke pall from western forest fires.

20 Armed Forces' Day; sun enters astrological sign Gemini.

21 American Red Cross organized, 1881, by Clara Barton; Lindbergh landed in Paris, 1927.

22 Victoria Day in Canada.

25 American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson born, 1803.

26 LAST QUARTER MOON, 7:55 A.M. EDT.

27 Great St. Louis tornado of 1896 killed 306 people.

28 Rogation Sunday, the Sunday preceding Ascension Day, the Thursday 40 days after Easter on which Christians commemorate Christ's ascension into heaven; look very low in east about 45 minutes before sunrise to see Jupiter and dimmer Saturn just 1.1 ° apart (less then the width of your little finger seen at arm's length.

29 Memorial Day (observed); birthday of John F. Kennedy, 1917, and Patrick Henry, 1736; Oak Apple Day, Royal Oak Day or Nettle Day in England (commemorates the May 29, 1660, restoration of King Charles).

30 Jupiter passes east of Saturn (conjunction in right ascension) for first time since 1981 and last time until 2020 (see entry for May 28 above for information on observing them); Lincoln Memorial dedicated, 1922.

31 In 1889, Johnstown flood killed 2,100 people in the Pennsylvania town; Feast of the Visitation (Mary's visit to her cousin Elizabeth, culminating in the prayer, the Magnificat); spring begins in the Northern Hemisphere - of Mars.

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