- Today Monday, 10th of July of 2017 is the 191st day of the year
- There are 174 days remaining until the end of the year.
- 484 days until Congressional Elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018
- (1 year 3 months and 27 days from today)
- 1212 days until Presidential Elections on Tuesday November 3, 2020
- (3 years 3 months and 24 days from today)
- The sun rose this morning at 5:57 am
- and the sun will set at 8:33 pm.
- Today we will have 14 hours and 36 minutes of daylight.
- Solar noon will be at 1:15 pm.
- The first high tide was at 12:21am
- and the next high tide will be at 2:23 pm.
- The first low tide will be at 7:06 am
- and the next low tide at 7:00 pm.
- The Moon is 98.3% illuminated; a Waning Gibbous moon
- Moon Direction:↑ 225.48° SW
- Moon Altitude: 19.88°
- Moon Distance: 248203 mi
- Next New Moon: July 23, 2017 at 2:45 am
- Next Full Moon: August 7, 2017 at 11:10 am
- Next Moonset: Today at 7:23 am
Today is…
Don't Step on a Bee Day
International Town Criers Day
National Clerihew Day
National Piña Colada Day
Pick Blueberries Day
Today is also…
Armed Forces Day in Mauritania
- · Independence Day (Bahamas), celebrates the independence of the Bahamas from the United Kingdom in 1973
- · Nikola Tesla Day
- · Silence Day for Followers of Meher Baba
- · Statehood Day in Wyoming
- If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you! You share this day with...
- · 1509 – John Calvin, French pastor and theologian (d. 1564)
- · 1839 – Adolphus Busch, German brewer, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (d. 1913)
- · 1856 – Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engineer (d. 1943)
- · 1871 – Marcel Proust, French novelist, critic, and essayist (d. 1922)
- · 1875 – Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist (d. 1955)
- · 1882 - Ima Hogg, American society leader, philanthropist, patron and collector of the arts (d. 1975)
- · 1902 – Nicolás Guillén, Cuban poet, journalist, and activist (d. 1989)
- · 1907 – Blind Boy Fuller, American singer and guitarist (d. 1941)
- · 1911 – Terry-Thomas, English comedian and character actor (d. 1990)
- · 1911 – Cootie Williams, American trumpeter and bandleader (d. 1985)
- · 1914 – Joe Shuster, Canadian-American illustrator, co-created Superman (d. 1992)
- · 1920 – David Brinkley, American journalist (d. 2003)
- · 1921 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist, co-founded the Special Olympics (d. 2009)
- · 1926 – Fred Gwynne, American actor (d. 1993)
- · 1927 – David Dinkins, American soldier and politician, 106th Mayor of New York City
- · 1931 – Alice Munro, Canadian short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- · 1938 – Lee Morgan, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1972)
- · 1939 – Mavis Staples, American singer
- · 1942 – Sixto Rodriguez, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- · 1947 – Arlo Guthrie, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
- · 1951 – Cheryl Wheeler, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- · 1958 – Béla Fleck, American banjo player and songwriter
- · 1972 – Sofía Vergara, Colombian-American actress and producer
- · 1977 – Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor
- · On this day in history…
- · 988 – The Norse King Glúniairn recognises Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin.
- · 1086 – King Canute IV of Denmark is killed by rebellious peasants.
- · 1553 – Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
- · 1821 – The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.
- · 1890 – Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
- · 1913 – The temperature in Death Valley, California, hits 134 °F (57 °C), the highest temperature ever to be recorded on Earth.
- · 1925 – Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
- · 1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
- · 1938 – Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91-hour airplane flight around the world.
- · 1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
- · 1962 – Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
- · 1966 – The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago. As many as 60,000 people attend.
- · 1973 – The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
- · 1973 – National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh.
- · 1991 – Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
- · 1992 – In Miami, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
- · 1997 – In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
- · 1998 – Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.