Today's Horoscope for Scorpio
May 17, 2026
Emotional self-control and feelings of distance and aloneness characterize this time. You are coolly objective about your friends and loved ones, and their shortcomings as friends or lovers. You are probably being a bit too critical and hard on them right now. This is also a time for belt-tightening and being very cautious about investments and expenditures.
Power Numbers: 43, 9, 12, 35, 30, 24
Born Today: Edward Jenner, Dennis Hopper, Sugar Ray Leonard, Nine Inch Nails, Andrea Corr
Quick Quote: "I can resist everything except temptation. "
-- Oscar Wilde
Random Fact: Bananas trees are not really trees. They are considered to be giant herb plants.
Today in History:
1973: Stevie Wonder releases "You are the Sunshine of my Love"
1884: Alaska becomes a U.S. territory
1954: Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education reversed 1896 "separate but equal" Plessy Vs Ferguson decision
1899: Victoria and Albert Museum foundation laid England
1849: Fire destroy Centrum in St. Louis Missouri
1915: Cubs George "Zip" Zabel relieves with 2 outs in 1st and winds up with 4-3 19-inning win over Brooklyn in longest relief job ever
1926: Chiang Kai-shek is made supreme war lord in Canton
1875: 1st Kentucky Derby: Oliver Lewis aboard Aristides wins in 2:37.75
1989: Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Dr. Gachet" auctioned for $825M
1981: "Inacent Black" closes at Biltmore Theater New York City after 14 performances
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