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KALW Almanac June 29, 2015

KALW | By Joe Burke
Published June 29, 2015 at 5:47 AM PDT

  • National Waffle Iron Day
  • 180th Day of 2015 185 Remaining
  • Autumn Begins in 86 Days
  • Sunrise:5:50
  • Sunset:8:35
  • 14 Hours 45 Minutes
  • Moon Rise:6:21pm
  • Moon Set:3:59am
  • Phase:94%
  • 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:10:44am/9:27pm
  • Low:3:54am/3:22pm
  • Holidays
  • National Almond Buttercrunch Day
  • National Camera Day
  • National Waffle Iron Day
  • Please Take My Children To Work Day
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  • International Mud Day
  • Independence Day-Seychelles
  • On This Day
  • 1613 --- The Globe Theater, where most of Shakespeare’s plays debuted, burned down. The Globe was built by Shakespeare’s acting company, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, in 1599 from the timbers of London’s very first permanent theater, Burbage’s Theater, built in 1576.
  • 1804 --- Privates John Collins and Hugh Hall of the Lewis and Clark Expedition were found guilty by a court-martial consisting of members of the Corps of Discovery for getting drunk on duty. Collins received 100 lashes on his back and Hall received 50. 
  • 1897 --- The Chicago Cubs scored 36 runs in a game against Louisville, setting a record for runs scored by a team in a single game. 
  • 1941 --- Joe DiMaggio got a base hit in his 42nd consecutive game. He broke George Sisler's record from 1922. 
  • 1941 --- One week after launching a massive invasion of the USSR, German divisions make staggering advances on Leningrad, Moscow, and Kiev.Despite his signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin knew that war with Nazi Germany–the USSR’s natural ideological enemy–was inevitable.
  • 1956 --- Marilyn Monroe married playwright Arthur Miller in a civil ceremony in White Plains, N.Y.
  • 1958 --- Brazil won their first World Cup title with a 5-2 victory over host country Sweden in Stockholm on the strength of two goals by 17-year-old Pele.
  • 1967 --- Keith Richards was found guilty of allowing his property to be used for the smoking of marijuana and was sentenced to one year in jail and was fined. Mick Jagger was found guilty of illegal possession of pep pills and was sentenced to three months in jail. 
  • 1972 --- In Furman v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court rules by a vote of 5-4 that capital punishment, as it is currently employed on the state and federal level, is unconstitutional.
  • 1987 --- Vincent Van Gogh’s "Le Pont de Trinquetaille" was bought for $20.4 million at an auction in London, England. 
  • 1989 --- In yet another reaction to the Chinese government’s brutal massacre of protesters in Tiananmen Square in Beijing earlier in the month, the House of Representatives unanimously passes a package of sanctions against the People’s Republic of China. 
  • 1995 --- The shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir docked, forming the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth.
  • 1995 --- The Sampoong department store in Seoul, South Korea, collapses killing more than 500 people. The tragedy in the upscale store occurred due to a series of errors made by the designers and contractors who built the store and the criminal negligence of the store’s owner.
  • 2004 --- Randy Johnson of the Arizona Diamondbacks became the fourth pitcher in major league history to record 4,000 career strikeouts.
  • 2005 -- The USDA confirmed today the first domestic case of mad cow disease. The 12 year old cow was born in Texas and spent its whole life on the same ranch.
  • 2007 --- The animated movie 'Ratatouille' opened in U.S. theatres. The story is about a rat, who can also cook, who befriends a young kitchen worker at a famous restaurant.
  • 2009 --- Financier Bernard Madoff received a 150-year sentence for his multibillion-dollar fraud.
  • Birthdays
  • Nelson Eddy
  • Slim Pickens
  • Stokeley Carmichael
  • Little Eva Boyd
  • Gary Busey
  • Richard Lewis
  • Colin Hay
  • Maria Conchita Alonso