- 195th Day of 2015 170 Remaining
- Autumn Begins in 71 Days
- Sunrise:5:59
- Sunset:8:31
- 14 Hours 32 Minutes
- Moon Rise:4:55am
- Moon Set:7:23pm
- Phase:2%
- 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:11:29am/10:14pm
- Low:4:37am/4:17pm
- Holidays
- National Grand Marnier Day
- National Nude Day
- National Tape Measure Day
- Pandemonium Day
- Shark Awareness Day
- Cow Appreciation Day
- Bastille Day-France
- Emmeline Pankhurst Day-United Kingdom
- O-Bon (Festival of Souls)-Japan
- On This Day
- 1099 --- During the First Crusade, Christian knights from Europe capture Jerusalem after seven weeks of siege and begin massacring the city’s Muslim and Jewish population.
- 1430 --- Joan of Arc, taken prisoner by the Burgundians in May, was handed over to Pierre Cauchon, the bishop of Beauvais.
- 1789 --- Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the Bastille, a royal fortress that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs. This dramatic action signaled the beginning of the French Revolution, a decade of political turmoil and terror in which King Louis XVI was overthrown and tens of thousands of people, including the king and his wife Marie Antoinette, were executed.
- 1795 --- The French National Convention accepted "La Marseillaise" as the French national anthem. It was the first national anthem of France.
- 1881 --- Sheriff Pat Garrett shoots Henry McCarty, also called William H Bonney, and popularly known as Billy the Kid, to death at the Maxwell Ranch in New Mexico. Garrett, who had been tracking the Kid for three months after the gunslinger had escaped from prison only days before his scheduled execution, got a tip that Billy was holed up with friends. While Billy was gone, Garrett waited in the dark in his bedroom. When Billy entered, Garrett shot him to death.
- 1911 --- Harry N. Atwood landed an airplane on the lawn of the White House to accept an award from U.S. President William Taft.
- 1921 --- Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted in Dedham, Mass., of killing a shoe company paymaster and his guard.
- 1946 --- Dr. Benjamin Spock’s "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" was first published.
- 1963 --- Relations between the Soviet Union and China reach the breaking point as the two governments engage in an angry ideological debate about the future of communism. The United States, for its part, was delighted to see a wedge being driven between the two communist superpowers.
- 1965 --- The American space probe Mariner 4 flew by Mars, sending back photographs of the planet.
- 1968 --- Atlanta Braves slugger Henry “Hank” Aaron hits the 500th home run of his career in a 4-2 win over the San Francisco Giants.
- 1976 --- Jimmy Carter won the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in New York City.
- 1993 --- The U.S. Postal Service released 29-cent stamps that honored four Broadway musicals. The featured scenes were from "My Fair Lady," "Porgy and Bess," "Show Boat" and "Oklahoma!"
- 2003 --- Hurricane Claudette gathers strength over the Gulf of Mexico and heads for the Texas coast on this day in 2003. By the time it passes through Texas, it causes major damage, especially in Galveston, where it kills two people.
- Birthdays
- Woody Guthrie
- Jane Lynch
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- Frederick Louis Maytag
- James Whistler
- Gustav Klimpt (1862-1918)
- Gerald R Ford (38th President)
- Ingmar Bergman
- Harry Dean Stanton
- John Chancellor
- Polly Bergen
- Roosevelt Grier
- Spencer Davis
KALW Almanac 7-14-2015
