- 197th Day of 2015 168 Remaining
- Autumn Begins in 69 Days
- Sunrise:6:01
- Sunset:8:30
- 14 Hours 29 Minutes
- Moon Rise:6:47am
- Moon Set:8:50pm
- Phase:1%
- 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:12:51pm/11:36pm
- Low:5:54am/5:50pm
- Holidays
- National Corn Fritter Day
- National Fresh Spinach Day
- National Personal Chef Day
- International Snake Day
- O-Bon (Festival of Souls)-Japan
- La Paz Local Festival-Bolivia
- Lunes Del Cerro-Mexico
- On This Day
- 1439 --- In an effort to stop the spread of disease, kissing is banned in England.
- 1790 --- The American Congress declares that a swampy, humid, muddy and mosquito-infested site on the Potomac River between Maryland and Virginia will be the nation’s permanent capital. “Washington,” in the newly designated federal “District of Columbia,” was named after the leader of the American Revolution and the country’s first president: George Washington. It was Washington who saw the area’s potential economic and accessibility benefits due to the proximity of navigable rivers.
- 1863 --- The draft riots enter their fourth day in New York City in response to the Enrollment Act, which was enacted four months earlier. Although avoiding military service became much more difficult, wealthier citizens could still pay a commutation fee of $300 to stay at home.
- 1918 --- In Yekaterinburg, Russia, Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed by the Bolsheviks, bringing an end to the three-century-old Romanov dynasty. Crowned in 1896, Nicholas was neither trained nor inclined to rule, which did not help the autocracy he sought to preserve among a people desperate for change. The disastrous outcome of the Russo-Japanese War led to the Russian Revolution of 1905, which ended only after Nicholas approved a representative assembly–the Duma–and promised constitutional reforms. The czar soon retracted these concessions and repeatedly dissolved the Duma when it opposed him, contributing to the growing public support for the Bolsheviks and other revolutionary groups.
- 1926 --- The first underwater color photographs appeared in "National Geographic" magazine. The pictures had been taken near the Florida Keys.
- 1935 --- The world’s first parking meter, known as Park-O-Meter No. 1, is installed on the southeast corner of what was then First Street and Robinson Avenue in Oklahoma City.
- 1942 --- French police officers rounded up 13,000 Jews and held them in the Winter Velodrome. The round-up was part of an agreement between Pierre Laval and the Nazis. Germany had agreed to not deport French Jews if France arrested foreign Jews.
- 1945 --- The Manhattan Project comes to an explosive end as the first atom bomb is successfully tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The scientists and a few dignitaries had removed themselves 10,000 yards away to observe as the first mushroom cloud of searing light stretched 40,000 feet into the air and generated the destructive power of 15,000 to 20,000 tons of TNT. The tower on which the bomb sat when detonated was vaporized.
- 1948 --- Brooklyn Dodgers Manager Leo Durocher announces that he will be joining the New York Giants, the Dodgers’ archrival. The move was the swiftest and most stunning managerial change in baseball history.
- 1950 --- The largest crowd in sporting history was 199,854. They watched the Uruguay defeat Brazil in the World Cup soccer finals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- 1951 --- The novel 'Catcher in the Rye' by J.D. Salinger was published.
- 1967 --- Arlo Guthrie performs a new song, the 20 minute 'Alice's Restaurant', at the Newport Folk Festival.
- 1969 --- Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy on the first manned mission to the moon.
- 1973 --- Former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield publicly revealed the existence of President Richard Nixon's secret taping system during the Senate Watergate hearings.
- 1980 --- The California Supreme Court rules that Ted Giannoulas can appear in public in his San Diego Chicken suit as long as it does not have the call letters of the radio station (KGB) that first used it as a promotional gambit.
- 1990 --- More than 1,000 people are killed when a 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Luzon Island in the Philippines. The epicenter of the quake, which struck at 4:26 p.m., was north of Manila in the Nueva Ecija province.
- 2002 --- President George W. Bush announces his plan for strengthening homeland security in the wake of the shocking September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. In the immediate aftermath of the disaster Bush launched a massive overhaul of the nation’s security, intelligence and emergency-response systems through the creation of the White House Office of Homeland Security. Later in the month, the Department of Homeland Security was established as a federal agency.
- 2004 --- Martha Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison and five months of home confinement by a federal judge for lying about a stock sale.
- Birthdays
- Ginger Rogers
- Oroville Redenbacher
- Roald Amundsen
- Barbara Stanwick
- Ida Bell Wells
- Barnard Hughes
- Cal Tjader
- Desmond Dekker
- Ruben Blades
- Pinchas Zucherman
- Stewart Copeland
- Phoebe Cates
- Will Ferrell
- Barry Sanders
National Fresh Spinach Day-KALW Almanac-July 16, 2015
