- 194th Day of 2015 171 Remaining
- Autumn Begins in 72 Days
- Sunrise:5:58
- Sunset:8:32
- 14 Hours 34 Minutes
- Moon Rise:4:03am
- Moon Set:6:32pm
- Phase:6%
- 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:10:41am/9:30pm
- Low:3:53am/3:26pm
- Holidays
- Barbershop Music Appreciation Day
- Beans ’n’ Franks Day
- Embrace your Geekness Day
- Fool’s Paradise Day
- Gruntled Workers Day
- National French Fries Day
- International town Criers Day
- O-Bon (Festival of Souls)-Japan
- Statehood Day-Montenegro
- On This Day
- 1099 --- The Crusaders launched their final assault on Muslims in Jerusalem.
- 1643 --- In England, the Roundheads, led by Sir William Waller, were defeated by royalist troops under Lord Wilmot in the Battle of Roundway Down.
- 1787 --- The U.S. Congress, under the Articles of Confederation, enacted the Northwest Ordinance, which established the rules for governing the Northwest Territory, for admitting new states to the Union and limiting the expansion of slavery.
- 1793 --- Jean Paul Marat, one of the most outspoken leaders of the French Revolution, is stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday, a Royalist sympathizer. By 1793, Charlotte Corday, the daughter of an impoverished aristocrat and an ally of the Girondists in Normandy, came to regard Marat as the unholy enemy of France and plotted his assassination. On July 13, she gained an audience with Marat by promising to betray the Caen Girondists. Marat, who had a persistent skin disease, was working as usual in his bath when Corday pulled a knife from her bodice and stabbed him in his chest. He died almost immediately, and Corday waited calmly for the police to come and arrest her. She was guillotined four days later.
- 1836 --- John Ruggles received patent #1 from the U.S. Patent Office for a traction wheel used in locomotive steam engines. All 9,957 previous patents were not numbered.
- 1863 --- Rioting against the Civil War military draft erupted in New York City; about 1,000 people died over three days.
- 1896 --- Philadelphia’s Ed Delahanty became the second major league player to hit four home runs in a single game.
- 1923 --- A sign consisting of 50-foot-tall letters spelling out "HOLLYWOODLAND" was dedicated in the Hollywood Hills to promote a subdivision, the last four letters were removed in 1949.
- 1930 --- France defeats Mexico 4-1 and the United States defeats Belgium 3-0 in the first-ever World Cup football matches, played simultaneously in host city Montevideo, Uruguay. The World Cup has since become the world’s most watched sporting event. After football (soccer, to Americans) was dropped from the program for the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, FIFA President Jules Rimet helped to organize an international tournament in 1930. Much to the dismay of European footballers, Uruguay, winner of back-to-back gold medals at the 1924 Paris Olympics and 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, was chosen to host the inaugural World Cup.
- 1937 --- The first Krispy Kreme doughnut is sold in Salem, North Carolina.
- 1939 --- Frank Sinatra made his recording debut with the Harry James band with the songs "Melancholy Mood" and "From the Bottom of My Heart."
- 1951 --- Rivers across eastern Kansas crest well above flood stage, causing the greatest destruction from flooding in the midwestern United States to that time. Five-hundred-thousand people were left homeless and 24 people died in the disaster.
- 1960 --- In Los Angeles, Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts is nominated for the presidency by the Democratic Party Convention, defeating Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas. The next day, Johnson was named Kennedy’s running mate by a unanimous vote of the convention.
- 1964 --- The Supremes made the studio recording of "Come See About Me."
- 1972 --- Carroll Rosenbloom, owner of the Baltimore Colts, and Robert Irsay, owner of the Los Angeles Rams, traded teams.
- 1977 --- A power blackout hit New York. Power was out for about 25 hours. There was widespread looting, unlike the calm of the 1965 blackout.
- 1985 --- At Wembley Stadium in London, Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially open Live Aid, a worldwide rock concert organized to raise money for the relief of famine-stricken Africans. Continued at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia and at other arenas around the world. More than 75 acts performed, including Elton John, Madonna, Santana, Run DMC, Sade, Sting, Bryan Adams, the Beach Boys, Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Queen, Duran Duran, U2, the Who, Tom Petty, Neil Young, and Eric Clapton. The majority of these artists performed at either Wembley Stadium in London, where a crowd of 70,000 turned out, or at Philadelphia’s JFK Stadium, where 100,000 watched.
- Birthdays
- Erno Rubik
- Paul Prudhomme
- Father Edward Flanagan
- Bob Crane
- Patrick Stewart
- Harrison Ford
- Roger McGuinn
- Cheech Marin
- Didi Conn
- Louise Mandrell
- Cameron Crowe
National French Fries Day - KALW Almanac - July 13, 2015
