- 174th Day of 2015 191 Remaining
- Autumn Begins in 92 Days
- Sunrise:5:48
- Sunset:8:35
- 14 Hours 47 Minutes
- Moon Rise:12:40pm
- Moon Set:12:32am
- Phase:44%
- 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:3:48am/5:25pm
- Low:10:24am/11:54pm
- Holidays
- Let It Go Day
- National Columnists Day
- National Pecan Sandy Day
- National Pink Day
- Pink Flamingo Day
- Public Service day
- Runner’s Selfie Day
- SAT Math Day
- Typewriting Day
- International Widow’s Day
- Independence Day-Switzerland
- Ligo Day-Latvia
- Midsummer Party-Denmark
- Victory Day-Estonia
- On This Day
- 1865 --- Confederate General Stand Watie, who was also a Cherokee chief, surrendered the last sizable Confederate army at Fort Towson, in the Oklahoma Territory.
- 1868 --- Christopher Latham Sholes of Wisconsin patented a mechanical writing machine, called a type-writer. It was as large as a desk, made of black walnut and had black and white keys. He signed a deal with the Remington Arms company for its manufacture in 1873. It was Remington who turned it into a more practical machine.
- 1902 --- German automaker Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG) first registers “Mercedes” as a brand name; the name will gain full legal protection the next September. Mechanical engineer Gottlieb Daimler sold his first luxury gasoline-powered automobile to the sultan of Morocco in 1899.
- 1931 --- Aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.
- 1940 --- Adolf Hitler surveys notable sites in the French capital, now German-occupied territory. In his first and only visit to Paris, Hitler made Napoleon’s tomb among the sites to see. “That was the greatest and finest moment of my life,” he said upon leaving.
- 1956 --- Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.
- 1964 --- Arthur Melin of the Wham-O company (of Frisbee fame) patented the hula-hoop.
- 1967 --- President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey, for a three-day summit. The meeting ended inconclusively, however, as issues such as Vietnam and the Middle East continued to divide the two superpowers.
- 1969 --- Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
- 1972 --- Title IX of the education amendments of 1972 is enacted into law. Title IX prohibits federally funded educational institutions from discriminating against students or employees based on sex.
- 1972 --- President Richard Nixon’s advisor, H.R. Haldeman, tells the president to put pressure on the head of the FBI to “stay the hell out of this [Watergate burglary investigation] business.” In essence, Haldeman was telling Nixon to obstruct justice, which is one of the articles Congress threatened to impeach Nixon for in 1974.
- 1992 --- Mafia boss John Gotti, who was nicknamed the “Teflon Don” after escaping unscathed from several trials during the 1980s, is sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty on 14 accounts of conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering. Moments after his sentence was read in a federal courthouse in Brooklyn, hundreds of Gotti’s supporters stormed the building and overturned and smashed cars before being forced back by police reinforcements.
- 2005 --- The Lucky Pierrot restaurant chain in northern Japan began serving deep fried Whale Burgers, made with minke whale meat.
- 2005 --- Former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the 1964 Mississippi slayings of three civil rights workers.
- 2005 --- Roger Ebert received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- 2013 --- Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to walk a high wire across the Little Colorado River Gorge near Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.
- 2015 --- NASA's Mars Odyssey completed its 60,000th orbit around Mars. The spacecraft entered orbit on October 23, 2001.
- Birthdays
- Alfred Kinsey
- Edward III
- Bob Fosse
- June Carter Cash
- Wilma Rudolph
- Justice Clarence Thomas
- Frances McDormand
- Michael Scharra
KALW Almanac Tuesday June 23, 2015
