175th day of 2016, 191 days remaining
Sunrise: 5:49am
Sunset: 8:36pm, giving us 14 hours and 47 minutes of daylight
Moonset: 9:03am, rising at 11:02pm with 94% of the waning moon visible
Tides at the Golden Gate:
- High: 1:29am/3:32pm
- Low: 8:10am/8:17pm
Special International Celebrations today…
- Grand Duke's Birthday - Luxembourg
- Independence Day (Jura only) - Switzerland
- Jonines (summer solstice) Night - Lithuania
- Ligo Day - Latvia
- Midsummer Party - Denmark
- Victory Day - Estonia
- Jonsok / Sankthansaften / Midsummer's Eve – Norway
It’s also…
- National Pecan Sandy Day
- International Widows' Day
- Let It Go Day
- Pink Flamingo Day
- Public Service Day
- Runner's Selfie Day
- SAT Math Day
- Typing Day
On this day in…
1683 - William Penn signed a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
1700 - Russia gave up its Black Sea fleet as part of a truce with the Ottoman Empire.
1758 - British and Hanoverian armies defeated the French at Krefeld in Germany.
1760 - The Austrians defeated the Prussians at Landshut, Germany.
1757 - Robert Clive defeated the Indians at Plassey and won control of Bengal.
1836 - The U.S. Congress approved the Deposit Act, which contained a provision for turning over surplus federal revenue to the states.
1848 - A bloody insurrection of workers in Paris erupted.
1865 - Confederate General Stand Watie, who was also a Cherokee chief, surrendered the last sizable Confederate army at Fort Towson, in the Oklahoma Territory.
1868 - Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention that he called a "Type-Writer."
1884 - A Chinese Army defeated the French at Bacle, Indochina.
1902 - Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy renewed the Triple Alliance for a 12 year duration.
1904 - The first American motorboat race got underway on the Hudson River in New York.
1926 - The first lip reading tournament in America was held in Philadelphia, PA.
1931 - Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.
1934 - Italy gained the right to colonize Albania after defeating the country.
1938 - The Civil Aeronautics Authority was established.
1938 - Marineland opened near St. Augustine, Florida.
1947 - The U.S. Senate joined the House in overriding President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
1951 - Soviet U.N. delegate Jacob Malik proposed cease-fire discussions in the Korean War.
1952 - The U.S. Air Force bombed power plants on Yalu River, Korea.
1956 - Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.
1964 - Henry Cabot Lodge resigned as the U.S. envoy to Vietnam and was succeeded by Maxwell Taylor.
1966 - Civil Rights marchers in Mississippi were dispersed by tear gas.
1972 - U.S. President Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI's Watergate investigation.
1993 – Lorena Bobbitt, claiming domestic abuse, cut off her husband John’s penis
2003 - Apple Computer Inc. unveiled the new Power Mac desktop computer.
2004 - The U.S. proposed that North Korea agree to a series of nuclear disarmament measures over a three-month period in exchange for economic benefits.
2005 - Roger Ebert received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2013 - In Arizona, aerialist Nik Wallenda completed a quarter mile tightrope walk over the Little Colorado River Gorge.
2015 - NASA's Mars Odyssey completed its 60,000th orbit around Mars. The spacecraft entered orbit on October 23, 2001.
Birthday celebrants today include (or included)…
- Josephine Marinique 1763
- Irvin Cobb 1876
- Alfred Kinsey 1894
- Edward Patrick David 1894
- Edward P. Morgan 1910
- Jean Marie Anouilh 1910
- David Ogilvy 1911
- Alan Turing 1912
- Irene Worth 1916
- Larry Blyden 1925
- Bob Fosse 1927
- June Carter Cash 1929
- Adam Faith 1940
- Diana Trask 1940
- Wilma Rudolph 1940
- James Levine 1943
- Rosetta Hightower 1944
- Ted Shackelford 1946
- Bryan Brown 1947
- Clarence Thomas 1948
- Jim Metzler 1954
- Randy Jackson 1956
- Frances McDormand 1957
- Karin Gustafson 1959
- Paul La Greca 1962
- Steve Shelley 1962
- Joss Whedon 1964
- Chico DeBarge
- Selma Blair
- Virgo Williams
- KT Tunstall 1975
- Melissa Rauch 1980
- Duffy 1984
