- 178th Day of 2014 / 187 Remaining
- Autumn Begins in 87 Days
- Sunrise:5:50
- Sunset:8:35
- 14 Hours 45 Minutes of Daylight
- Moon Rise:6:23am
- Moon Set:8:47pm
- New Moon
- The Next Full Moon
- July 12 @ 4:26 am
- Full Buck Moon
- Full Thunder Moon
- Full Hay Moon
July is normally the month when the new antlers of buck deer push out of their foreheads in coatings of velvety fur. It was also named for the thunderstorms that are most common during this time. And in some areas it was called the Full Hay Moon.
- Tides
- High:12:52pm/11:20pm
- Low:5:50am/5:38pm
- Holidays
- Decide to Be Married Day
- National HIV Testing Day
- Please Take My Children to Work Day
- Independence Day-Djibouti
- Memorial Day-Vietnam
- On This Day In …
- 1693 --- "The Ladies' Mercury" was published by John Dunton in London. It was the first women's magazine and contained a "question and answer" column that became known as a "problem page."
- 1787 --- Edward Gibbon completed "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." It was published the following May.
- 1847 --- New York and Boston were linked by telegraph wires.
- 1871 --- The yen became the new form of currency in Japan.
- 1885 --- Chichester Bell and Charles Tainter applied for a patent on their invention known as the gramophone.
- 1893 --- The melody of 'Happy Birthday to You' was first published ('Good Morning to All').
- 1893 --- The New York stock market crashed. By the end of the year 600 banks and 74 railroads had gone out of business.
- 1905 --- The battleship Potemkin succumbed to a mutiny on the Black Sea.
- 1924 --- Democrats offered Mrs. Leroy Springs for vice presidential nomination. She was the first woman considered for the job.
- 1942 --- The FBI announced the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs who had been put ashore from a submarine on New York's Long Island.
- 1949 --- Captain Video and His Video Rangers premiered on the Dumont Television Network. Captain Video was initially played by Richard Coogan. The voice of radio’s Green Hornet, Al Hodge, replaced Coogan in 1951. Don Hastings played the roll of the ranger until the series ended in 1955.
- 1950 --- President Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy into the Korean War following a call from the United Nations Security Council for member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North.
- 1957 --- More than 500 people were killed when Hurricane Audrey slammed through coastal Louisiana and Texas.
- 1962 --- Two albums of melancholy music by Jackie Gleason received gold record honors.Music, Martinis and Memories and Music for Lovers Only got the gold.
- 1963 ---John F Kennedy, an Irish-American and the first Catholic to become president of the Untied States, arrives in Ireland for a visit. Kennedy was proud of his Irish roots and made a special visit to his ancestral home in Dunganstown, County Wexford, while in the country. There, he was greeted by a crowd waving both American and Irish flags and was serenaded by a boys choir that sang "The Boys of Wexford." According to the BBC report that day, Kennedy broke away from his bodyguards and joined the choir for the second chorus, prompting misty-eyed reactions from both observers and the press.
- 1967 --- The world's first cash dispenser was installed at Barclays Bank in Enfield, England. The device was invented by John Sheppard-Barron. The machine operated on a voucher system and the maximum withdrawal was $28.
- 1967 --- Two hundred people were arrested during a race riot in Buffalo, NY.
- 1968 --- Elvis Presley began taping his first television special, "Elvis," at NBC studios in Burbank.Much of the credit for the Comeback Special goes to the young director NBC turned to on the project. Only 26 years old but with a strong background in televised music, Steve Binder had the skills and creativity to put together a more interesting program than the one originally planned, but he'd also had the youthful confidence to tell Elvis that a successful show was an absolute necessity if he wanted to regain his relevance. "Basically, I told him I thought his career was in the toilet," Binder recalled in an interview almost four decades later. From the beginning, Elvis embraced almost every suggestion Binder made, including what would turn out to be the best one, which came after Binder watched Elvis jamming with his friends and fellow musicians in his dressing room one night after rehearsals. "Wait a minute, this is history," Binder recalls thinking. "I want to film this." Binder sold Elvis on the idea that would become the most memorable segment of the show: an informal, "unplugged" session before a live audience.
- 1969 --- New York City police, attempting to serve a search warrant, charged into the well-known gay hangout, the Stonewall Inn. Events quickly got out of hand. Police ejected customers, managers, bouncers. Everyone got booted outside onto the sidewalk. The crowd became increasingly unruly and someone threw a bottle at the police. The plain-clothes police team was trapped inside the bar for over two hours before the the NYPD Tactical Patrol Force arrived and drove the mob from in front of the Stonewall. Police arrested and jailed many of the chanting gays. For the next few nights, the Stonewall Inn became the focal point of gay protests. The gay community began to organize and form committees to bring about change.
- 1970 -- The Jackson 5: Marlon, Tito, Jackie, Randy and Michael, jumped to number one on the music charts with The Love You Save. The song stayed at the top of the charts for two weeks. It was the third of four number one hits in a row for the group. The other three were I Want You Back, ABC and I’ll Be There.
- 1971 --- Promoter Bill Graham closed the Fillmore East in New York City. It was a spin-off of San Francisco’s legendary rock ’n’ roll palace, Fillmore West (closed several days later). The Allman Brothers and J. Geils Band were among those performing on the final night.
- 1980 --- The the National Anthem Act, making O Canada Canada's national anthem, was unanimously accepted by the House of Commons and the Senate. Royal assent was also given this day. O Canada, written by Calixa Lavallee and Adolphe-Basile Routhier, was officially proclaimed Canada's national anthem on July 1, 1980.
- 1984 --- The Federal Communications Commission moved to deregulate U.S. commercial TV by lifting most programming requirements and ending day-part restrictions on advertising.
- 1985 --- Route 66, which originally stretched from Chicago to Santa Monica, Calif., passed into history as officials decertified the road. Beginning in the 1950’s, the building of a massive system of interstate highways made older roads increasingly obsolete, and by 1970, modern four-lane highways had bypassed nearly all sections of Route 66. In October 1984, Interstate-40 bypassed the last original stretch of Route 66 at Williams, Arizona, and the following year the road was decertified. According to the National Historic Route 66 Federation, drivers can still use 85 percent of the road, and Route 66 has become a destination for tourists from all over the world.
- 1988 --- Mike Tyson quickly retained his undisputed world heavyweight title by knocking out Michael Spinks in the first round. Fight fans at Atlantic City Convention Hall had paid big bucks (up to $1,500) to see this one. The match, touted in advance as “Once and for All” was all over in 91 seconds.
- 2000 --- A San Francisco appeals court ruled that the Rolling Stones improperly borrowed "Love in Vain and "Stop Breakin' Down" from Robert Johnson. The Stones' former record label had wrongly assumed that the songs were public domain.
- 2005 --- In Alaska's Denali National Park, a roughly 70-million year old dinosaur track was discovered. The track was form a three-toed Cretaceous period dinosaur.
- 2011 --- Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was convicted by a federal jury in Chicago of corruption. (He was later sentenced to 14 years in prison.)
- Birthdays
- Emma Goldman
- Bob Keeshan / Captain Kangaroo
- Helen Keller
- Vera Wang
- Ross Perot
- Bruce Johnston
- Julia Duffy
- Tobey Maguire
- Willie Mosconi
- Isabelle Adjani
- Alice McDermott
