- 210th Day of 2015 155 Remaining
- Autumn Begins in 56 Days
- Sunrise:6:11
- Sunset:8:20
- 14 Hours 9 Minutes
- Moon Rise:6:52pm
- Moon Set:4:24am
- Phase:96%
- 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:10:59am/9:49pm
- Low:4:04am/3:46pm
- Holidays
- National Lasagna Day
- National Chicken Wing Day
- National Lipstick Day
- Rain Day
- International Tiger Day
- Father’s Day-Dominican Republic
- On This Day
- 1588 --- Off the coast of Gravelines, France, Spain’s so-called “Invincible Armada” is defeated by an English naval force under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake. After eight hours of furious fighting, a change in wind direction prompted the Spanish to break off from the battle and retreat toward the North Sea. Its hopes of invasion crushed, the remnants of the Spanish Armada began a long and difficult journey back to Spain.
- 1754 --- The first international boxing match was held. The 25-minute match was won when Jack Slack of Britain knocked out Jean Petit from France.
- 1786 --- "The Pittsburgh Gazette" became the first newspaper west of the Alleghenies to be published. The paper's name was later changed to "The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette."
- 1848 --- At the height of the Potato Famine in Ireland, an abortive nationalist revolt against English rule is crushed by a government police detachment in Tipperary. In a brief skirmish in a cabbage patch, Irish nationalists under William Smith O’Brien were overcome and arrested. The nationalists, members of the Young Ireland movement, had planned to declare an independent Irish republic, but they lacked support from the Irish peasantry, who were occupied entirely with surviving the famine.
- 1958 --- The U.S. Congress passes legislation establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a civilian agency responsible for coordinating America’s activities in space. NASA has since sponsored space expeditions, both human and mechanical, that have yielded vital information about the solar system and universe.
- 1967 --- “Light My Fire,” earned the top spot in the Billboard Hot 100, and transformed The Doors from cult favorites of the rock cognoscenti into international pop stars and avatars of the 60s counterculture.
- 1976 --- The so-called “Son of Sam” pulls a gun from a paper bag and fires five shots at Donna Lauria and Jody Valenti of the Bronx while they are sitting in a car, talking. Lauria died and Valenti was seriously wounded in the first in a series of shootings by the serial killer, who terrorized New York City over the course of the next year.
- 1977 --- Buffalo, New York declared this day 'Chicken Wing Day' in honor of the famous Buffalo Chicken Wings, created by Teressa Bellissimo in October, 1964. Buffalo Wings were created by Teressa Bellissimo at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York, for her son and some friends for a midnight snack.
- 1993 --- The Israeli Supreme Court acquitted retired Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk of being Nazi death camp guard "Ivan the Terrible." His death sentence was thrown out and he was set free.
- 1996 --- Track and field legend Carl Lewis wins his fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal in the long jump. It was the ninth and final Olympic gold of his storied career.
- 1998 --- The United Auto Workers union ended a 54-day strike against General Motors. The strike caused $2.8 billion in lost revenues.
- 2005 --- Astronomers announced that they had discovered a new planet, Eris, larger than Pluto in orbit around the sun.
- Birthdays
- Theda Bara
- Clara Bow
- Dag Hammarskjold
- Alexis Tocqueville
- Benito Mussolini
- Melvin Belli
- Ken Burns
- Chang-Rae Lee
- Professor Irwin Corey
National Chicken Wings Day-KALW Almanac-July 29, 2015
