- 191st Day of 2015 174 Remaining
- Autumn Begins in 75 Days
- Sunrise:5:56
- Sunset:8:33
- 14Hours 37 Minutes
- Moon Rise:1:47am
- Moon Set:3:33pm
- Phase:29%
- 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:7:19am/7:03pm
- Low:1:07am/12:30pm
- Rainfall:
- This Year to Date:0.07
- Last Year:0.00
- Avg YTD:0.00
- Annual Avg:23.80
- Holidays
- Collector Car Appreciation Day
- Cow Appreciation Day
- Don’t Step On A Bee Day
- National Clerihew Day
- National Pina Colada Day
- Teddy Bear Picnic Day
- Independence Day-Bahamas
- On This Day
- 1776 --- The statue of King George III was pulled down in New York City.
- 1777 --- Colonel William Barton of the Rhode Island Patriot militia captures British General Richard Prescott, from his bed, during the early morning hours. Prescott was the only British general to suffer the ignominy of being captured twice by Patriot forces during the War for Independence.
- 1866 --- The indelible pencil was patented by Edson P. Clark of Northhampton, Massachusetts. This was the equivalent of the ball point pen of the time. It was non-erasable, and you didn’t need an ink well. Used for bills, prices, etc., you could also place a damp sheet of tissue paper over the writing to get a mirror image.
- 1890 --- Wyoming became the 44th state.
- 1900 --- ‘His Master’s Voice’, was registered with the U.S. Patent Office. The logo of the Victor Recording Company, and later, RCA Victor, shows the dog, Nipper, looking into the horn of a gramophone machine.
- 1925 --- In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called “Monkey Trial” begins with John Thomas Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law. The law, which had been passed in March, made it a misdemeanor punishable by fine to “teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.” With local businessman George Rappalyea, Scopes had conspired to get charged with this violation, and after his arrest the pair enlisted the aid of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to organize a defense. Hearing of this coordinated attack on Christian fundamentalism, William Jennings Bryan, the three-time Democratic presidential candidate and a fundamentalist hero, volunteered to assist the prosecution. Soon after, the great attorney Clarence Darrow agreed to join the ACLU in the defense, and the stage was set for one of the most famous trials in U.S. history.
- 1940 --- The 114-day Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces began attacking southern England by air. By late October, Britain managed to repel the Luftwaffe, which suffered heavy losses.
- 1943 --- Allies begin their invasion of Axis-controlled Europe with landings on the island of Sicily, off mainland Italy. Encountering little resistance from the demoralized Sicilian troops, the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery came ashore on the southeast of the island, while the U.S. 7th Army under General George S. Patton landed on Sicily’s south coast. Within three days, 150,000 Allied troops were ashore.
- 1962 --- The Telstar communications satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
- 1962 --- The United States Patent Office issues the Swedish engineer Nils Bohlin a patent for his three-point automobile safety belt “for use in vehicles, especially road vehicles”.
- 1973 --- The Bahamas became independent after three centuries of British colonial rule.
- 1979 --- Chuck Berry was sentenced to four months in prison for income tax evasion.
- 1984 --- Dwight ‘Doc’ Gooden, of the New York Mets, became the youngest player to appear in an All-Star Game as a pitcher. He was 19 years, 7 months, and 24 days old.
- 1985 --- Coca-Cola announced it was bringing back the old formula 'Coke' as Coca-Cola Classic, but would continue to sell the 'New Coke.'
- 1985 --- In Auckland harbor in New Zealand, Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior sinks after French agents in diving gear plant a bomb on the hull of the vessel. One person, Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira, was killed. The Rainbow Warrior, the flagship of international conservation group Greenpeace, had been preparing for a protest voyage to a French nuclear test site in the South Pacific. Two days after the incident, French authorities denied responsibility in the bombing and continued to do so even after New Zealand police arrested two French secret service agents in Auckland. Under pressure from New Zealand authorities, the French government formed an inquiry to investigate the incident and after several weeks concluded that the French agents were merely spying on Greenpeace. Later in the year, however, a British newspaper uncovered evidence of French President Francois Mitterrand’s authorization of the bombing plan, leading to several top-level resignations in Mitterrand’s cabinet and an admission by French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius that the agents had sunk the vessel under orders.
- 1986 --- Jerry Garcia lapsed into a diabetic coma. He was released from the hospital a couple of weeks later.
- 1990 --- In a vindication of his sweeping economic and political reforms, Mikhail Gorbachev withstands severe criticisms from his opponents and is re-elected head of the Soviet Communist Party by an overwhelming margin. Gorbachev’s victory was short-lived, however, as the Soviet Union collapsed in late 1991.
- 1991 --- Boris Yeltsin took the oath of office as the first elected president of the Russian republic.
- 1992 --- The Alaska court of appeals overturns the conviction of Joseph Hazelwood, the former captain of the oil tanker Exxon Valdez. Hazelwood, who was found guilty of negligence for his role in the massive oil spill in Prince William Sound in 1989, successfully argued that he was entitled to immunity from prosecution because he had reported the oil spill to authorities 20 minutes after the ship ran aground.
- 1999 --- The U.S. women’s soccer team defeats China to win their second Women’s World Cup. The game ended in a 5-4 shootout after 120 scoreless minutes: 90 tightly played minutes of regulation dictated by the United States and 30 tense minutes of overtime largely controlled by the Chinese. The title game was played at the Rose Bowl in southern California in front of 90,185 fans, the largest crowd ever to attend a women’s sporting event.
- 2002 --- Peter Paul Rubens' painting "The Massacre of the Innocents" sold for $76.2 million at Sotheby's.
- 2010 --- Queen Elizabeth II addressed the United Nations for the first time since 1957. It was her first visit to New York in more than 30 years.
- Birthdays
- Alice Munro
- Arthur Ashe
- Arlo Guthrie
- Adolphus Busch
- Marcel Proust
- John Calvin
- Camille Pissarro
- Nikola Tesla
- Kurt Adler
- James Whistler
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver
- David Dinkins
- Mavis Staples
- Ron Glass
- Virginia Wade
- Hal McRae
- Ronnie James Dio
- Bela Fleck
Teddy Bear Picnic Day - KALW Almanac - July 10, 2015
