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KALW Almanac ~ Monday July 3, 2017

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Today Monday, 3rd of July of 2017 is the 184th day of the year. 
 
There are 181 days remaining until the end of the year. 
 
491 days until  Congressional Elelctions on Tuesday November 06 2018
(1 year 4 months and 3 days from today)
 
1219 days until Presidential Elections on Tuesday November 03 2020
(3 years 3 months and 31 days from today)
 
The sun rose this morning at 5:53 am 
 
and sunset will be at 8:35 pm.
 
Today we will have 14 hours and 42 minutes of daylight. 
 
Solar noon will be at 1:14 pm.
 
The first low tide was at 2:43 am 
 
and the next low tide will be at 2:03 pm. 
 
The first high tide will be at 9:11 am 
 
and the next high tide at 8:42 pm.
 
The Moon is 73.4% illuminated; A Waxing Gibbous moon
 
Moon Direction: ↑ 283.13° WNW
 
Moon Altitude: -32.86°
 
Moon Distance: 250093 mi
 
Next Full Moon: Saturday July 8, 2017 at 9:06 pm
 
Next New Moon: Sunday July 23, 2017 at 2:45 am
 
Next Moonrise: Today at 3:53 pm
 
Today is...
 
American Redneck Day
 
Disobedience Day
 
National Chocolate Wafer Day
 
National Compliment Your Mirror Day
 
National Eat Beans Day
 
Stay Out of the Sun Day
 
It's also...
 
Emancipation Day in the United States Virgin Islands
 
Independence Day, celebrates the liberation of Minsk from Nazi occupation by Soviet troops in 1944 celebrated in Belarus
 
The start of the Dog Days according to the Old Farmer's Almanac but not according to established meaning in most European cultures
 
Women's Day in Myanmar
 
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You!
 
1854 – Leoš Janáček, Czech composer and theorist (d. 1928)
 
1878 – George M. Cohan, American songwriter, actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1942)
 
1883 – Franz Kafka, Czech-Austrian author (d. 1924)
 
1893 – Mississippi John Hurt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1966)
 
1901 – Ruth Crawford Seeger, American composer (d. 1953)
 
1908 – M. F. K. Fisher, American author (d. 1992)
 
1913 – Dorothy Kilgallen, American journalist, actress, and author (d. 1965)
 
1935 – Cheo Feliciano, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
 
1937 – Tom Stoppard, Czech-English playwright and screenwriter
 
1940 – Lamar Alexander, American lawyer and politician, 5th United States Secretary of Education
 
1940 – Fontella Bass, American singer-songwriter (d. 2012)
 
1947 – Dave Barry, American journalist and author
 
1951 – Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian politician, 41st President of Haiti (d. 2014)
 
1956 – Montel Williams, American talk show host and television personality
 
1957 – Poly Styrene, British musician (d. 2011)
 
1962 – Tom Cruise, American actor and producer
 
1971 – Julian Assange, Australian journalist, publisher, and activist, founded WikiLeaks
 
On this day in history...
 
1035 – William the Conqueror becomes the Duke of Normandy, reigns until 1087.
 
1852 – Congress establishes the United States' 2nd mint in San Francisco.
 
1863 – American Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminates with Pickett's Charge.
 
1884 – Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.
 
1886 – Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first purpose-built automobile.
 
1886 – The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
 
1890 – Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
 
1913 – Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors.
 
1930– Congress created the Veterans Administration.
 
1938 – World speed record for a steam locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 125.88 miles per hour (202.58 km/h).
 
1962– Algeria became independent after 132 years of French rule.
 
1971– Rock singer Jim Morrison of The Doors died in Paris at age 27.
 
1979 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
 
1985– The time-travel comedy "Back to the Future," starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, was released in movie theaters.
 
1988 – The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus.
 
2005– A NASA space probe, Deep Impact, hit its comet target as planned in a mission to learn how the solar system formed.
 
2009– Sarah Palin announced she would resign as Alaska governor with 16 months left in her term.