KALW Almanac - Thursday July 7, 2016

Today Thursday, 7^th of July of 2016 is the 189th day of the year

There are 177 days remaining until the end of the year.

·         The sun rose this morning at 5:56 am 

·         and sunset will be at 8:34 pm.

·         Today we will have 14 hours and 38 minutes of sun.

·         The solar transit will be at 1:15 pm.

·         The first high tide was at 1:38 am 

·         and the next high tide will be at 3:31 pm.

·         The first low tide will be at8:16 am 

·         and the next low tide at 8:36 pm.

Moon: 11.0% Waxing Crescent

Moon Direction:↑ 29.12° NNE

Moon Altitude:-36.45°

Moon Distance:239993 mi

Next Full Moon:Jul 19, 20163:56 PM

Next New Moon:Aug 2, 20161:44 PM

Next Moonrise:Today 9:24 AM

Today is…

NATIONAL STRAWBERRY SUNDAE DAY

NATIONAL FATHER DAUGHTER TAKE A WALK DAY

NATIONAL MACARONI DAY

It’s also… Caprotinia and Consualia in Ancient Rome

·         Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Solomon Islands from the United Kingdom in 1978.

·         Ivan Kupala Day (Belarus, Poland, Russia, Ukraine)

·         Saba Saba Day (Tanzania)

·         Tanabata (Japan)

·         World Chocolate Day

·         If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you! You get to share your special day with…

·          1860 – Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1911)

·         1906 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player and coach (d. 1982)

·         1907 – Robert A. Heinlein, American author and screenwriter (d. 1988)

·         1924 – Mary Ford, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)

·         1930 – Hank Mobley, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1986)

·         1932 – Joe Zawinul, Austrian-American keyboard player and composer (Weather Report) (d. 2007)

·         1940 – Ringo Starr, born Richard Starkey, English singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor (The Beatles, Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band, and Plastic Ono Band)

·         1949 – Shelley Duvall, American actress, writer, and producer

·         1958 – Michala Petri, Danish recorder player

·         1980 – Michelle Kwan, American figure skater

On this day in history…

·         1846 – American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the conquest of California.

·         1907 – Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.

·         1928 – Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company ofChillicothe, Missouri.

·         1930 – Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).

·         1930 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, dies.

·         1947 – The Roswell incident, the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.

·         1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of theSupremeCourt of the United States.

·         1983 – Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.

·         1985 – Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17

·         2005 – A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system killing 56 people including four suicidebombersand injuring over 700 others.