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KALW Almanac 6-25-2015

  • 176th Day of 2015 189 Remaining
  • Autumn Begins in 90 Days
  • Sunrise:5:49
  • Sunset:8:35
  • 14 Hours 46 Minutes
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  • Moon Rise:2:30pm
  • Moon Set:1:32am
  • Phase:63%
  • Full Moon July 1 @ 7:22pm and July 31 @ 3:45pm
  • 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 often called the Full Thunder Moon, for the reason that thunderstorms are most frequent during this time. Another name for this month’s Moon was the Full Hay Moon.
  • Tides
  • High:6:19am/6:46pm
  • Low:12:54am/12:05pm
  • Holidays
  • Color TV Day(1951)
  • Day of the Seafarer
  • National Catfish Day
  • National Bomb Pop Day
  • National Handshake Day
  • National Log Cabin Day
  • National Strawberry Parfait Day
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  • Global Beatles Day
  • Independence Day-Mozambique
  • National Day-Slovenia
  • Statehood Day-Croatia
  • World Vitiligo Day
  • On This Day
  • 1857 --- One of the most influential French poets of all time, Charles Baudelaire publishes his book Les Fleurs du Mal (Flowers of Evil), leading to his conviction on charges of blasphemy and obscenity.
  • 1867 --- Barbed wire was patented by Lucien B Smith of Kent, Ohio.
  • 1876 --- Lt. Col. George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were slaughtered by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana.
  • 1950 --- North Korea invaded South Korea initiating the Korean War.
  • 1950 --- An American team composed largely of amateurs defeated its more polished English opponents at the World Cup, held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Dubbed the “Miracle on Green,” the game is considered one of the greatest soccer upsets of all time. 
  • 1951 --- In New York, the first regular commercial color TV transmissions were presented on CBS using the FCC-approved CBS Color System. The public did not own color TV's at the time. During that broadcast the Pabst Brewing Company aired the 1st color beer commercial on TV.
  • 1956 --- The last Packard–the classic American luxury car with the famously enigmatic slogan “Ask the Man Who Owns One”–rolls off the production line at Packard’s plant in Detroit, Michigan.
  • 1957 --- A hurricane watch is declared for the Texas and Louisiana coastlines as a tropical depression from the Gulf of Mexico heads toward the United States. The storm quickly becomes Hurricane Audrey, which kills 390 people.
  • 1964 --- U.S. President Lyndon Johnson ordered 200 naval personnel to Mississippi to assist in finding three missing civil rights workers. 
  • 1967 --- The Beatles performed a new song, "All You Need Is Love," during a live international telecast.
  • 1968 --- Bobby Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit a grand-slam home run in his first game with the Giants. He was the first player to debut with a grand-slam.
  • 1973 --- Former White House Counsel John Dean began testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee.
  • 1975 --- Mozambique became independent.  
      Samora Machel was sworn in as president after 477 years of Portuguese rule.
  • 1987 --- President Ronald Reagan officially proclaimed June 25 as National Catfish Day.
  • 1990 --- The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of an individual, whose wishes are clearly made, to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment. "The right to die" decision was made in the Curzan vs. Missouri case.
  • 1993 --- Kim Campbell took office as Canada's first woman prime minister. She assumed power upon the resignation of Brian Mulroney.
  • 1997 --- An unmanned cargo ship crashed into Russia's Mir space station, knocking out half of the station's power and rupturing a pressurized laboratory.
  • 2004 --- Eric Clapton raised about $7.5 million for a drug addiction center he set up in the Caribbean. The items that were sold were the "Blackie" Stratocaster that Clapton played from 1970-185 for $1 million, a 1964 cherry-red Gibson for $847,000 and a 1939 Martin accoustic that Clapton played on his "Unplugged" album went for $800,000.
  • 2009 --- Michael Jackson died at age 50 from an overdose of the powerful anesthetic propofol. (The singer's doctor, Conrad Murray, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.)
  • Birthdays
  • Anthony Bourdain
  • George Orwell
  • Anne Revere
  • Dorothy Gilman
  • Willis Reed
  • Carly Simon
  • Phyllis George
  • George Michael
  • Dikembe Mutombo