Last Day of School for Londonderry Students

1. Break out your sunglasses! While Thursday marked the summer solstice – or the longest day of 2013 – today, Friday, June 21, represents the first official day of summer. According to the Washington Post, the sun can be seen straight overhead along the Tropic of Cancer at 1:04 a.m. EDT Friday, the same point where the northern hemisphere (and North Pole) sees its maximum tilt toward the sun.

2. The weatherman says ... The first day of summer is greeted today by abundant sunshine with a forecasted high, according to Weather.com, of 86 degrees with a 20-percent chance of rain and an overnight low of 61 degrees.

5. On this day ... June 21, 1988, the United States Constitution was ratified when New Hampshire became ninth state to approve the document. According to History.com:

By 1786, defects in the post-Revolutionary War Articles of Confederation were apparent, such as the lack of central authority over foreign and domestic commerce. Congress endorsed a plan to draft a new constitution, and on May 25, 1787, the Constitutional Convention convened at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. On September 17, 1787, after three months of debate moderated by convention president George Washington, the new U.S. constitution, which created a strong federal government with an intricate system of checks and balances, was signed by 38 of the 41 delegates present at the conclusion of the convention. As dictated by Article VII, the document would not become binding until it was ratified by nine of the 13 states.