Thursday July 24, 2014

• 205^th Day of the Year / 160 Remaining
• Autumn Begins in 60 Days

• Sunrise:6:07
• Sunset:8:25
• 14 Hours 18 Minutes

• Moon Rise:4:19am
• Moon Set:6:45pm
• Moon’s Phase 4%
• Full Moon August 10 @ 11:10am
• Full Sturgeon Moon

The fishing tribes are given credit for the naming of this Moon, since sturgeon, a large fish of the Great Lakes and other major bodies of water, were most readily caught during this month. A few tribes knew it as the Full Red Moon because, as the Moon rises, it appears reddish through any sultry haze. It was also called the Green Corn Moon or Grain Moon.

• Tides
• High Tide:11:10am/9:49pm
• Low Tide:4:20am/3:57pm

• Holidays
• Anne Hutchinson Memorial Day
• Cousin’s Day
• National Drive-Thru Day
• National Tell An Old Joke Day
• Parent’s Day
• National Tequila Day
• Pioneer Day-Utah

• Children’s Day-Vanuatu
• Fiesta de Santiago
• Jose Barbosa Day-Puerto Rico
• Simon Bolivar Day-Ecuador

• On This Day
• 1847 --- After 17 months and many miles of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Utah's Valley of the Great Salt

  

   Lake. Gazing over the parched earth of the remote location, Young declared, "This is the place," and the pioneers began preparations for the thousands of Mormon migrants who would follow.

• 1910 --- The first publication of the Paul Bunyan stories of oral folklore, by James MacGillivray in the Detroit News-Tribune. A

  

  mythical hero of giant proportions who had an appetite to match his size. His camp stove had a griddle that was greased by men with sides of bacon strapped to their feet.

• 1911 --- American archeologist Hiram Bingham gets his first look at Machu Picchu. Tucked away in the rocky countryside northwest of Cuzco, Machu Picchu is believed to have been a summer retreat for Inca leaders, whose civilization was virtually wiped out by Spanish invaders in the 16th century. Traveling on foot and by mule, Bingham and his team made their way from Cuzco into the Urubamba Valley, where a local farmer told them of some ruins located at the top of a nearby mountain. The farmer called the mountain Machu Picchu, which meant "Old Peak" in the native Quechua language. The next day--July 24--after a tough climb to the mountain's ridge in cold and drizzly weather, Bingham met a small group of peasants who showed him the rest of the way. Led by an 11-year-old boy, Bingham got his first glimpse of the intricate network of stone terraces marking the entrance to Machu Picchu. The excited Bingham spread the word about his discovery in a best-selling book, sending hordes of eager tourists flocking to Peru to follow in his footsteps up the Inca trail. The site itself stretches an impressive five miles, with over 3,000 stone steps linking its many different levels.

• 1938 --- Artie Shaw recorded "Begin the Beguine." 

• 1956 --- After a decade together as the country’s most popular comedy team, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis called it quits this night. They did their last show at the Copacabana nightclub in New York City. The duo ended their relationship exactly 10 years after they had started it.

  

• 1959 --- During the grand opening ceremony of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev engage in a heated debate about capitalism and communism in the middle of a model kitchen set up for the fair. The so-called "kitchen debate" became one of the most famous episodes of the Cold War.

  

• 1969 --- Apollo 11, the first manned mission to the moon, splashed down safely in the Pacific.

  

• 1969 --- Hoyt Wilhelm, pitching for the Chicago White Sox, set a major-league baseball record by pitching in game number 907 of his career. Wilhelm went on to lead all major-league hurlers (number of games pitched) with 1,070 in his career (1952-1972).

• 1974 --- The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor. 

  

• 1978 --- Billy Martin was fired for the first of three times as the manager of the New York Yankees baseball team. 

  

• 1978 --- One of the worst movies ever made, "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," starring Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees, opened in New York City, NY.

  

      
• 1983 --- Kansas City Royals slugger George Brett slammed a two-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning to give the Royals a 5-4 lead over New York. Or did he? Seconds after Brett crossed home plate, New York Yankees Manager Billy Martin came out of the dugout to protest that the pine tar on Brett’s bat was more than 18 inches up the bat handle. The umpires measured Brett’s bat and came to the conclusion that Martin was correct – and called Brett 

  

  out -- erasing the Royals lead. The president of the American League, Lee McPhail, later reversed the umpires’ decision on the pine tar and ruled that the game was suspended -- with the Royals leading, 5-4. The game was completed 3 1/2 weeks later, on August 18, 1983, in Yankee Stadium. The outcome of the game? It only took 12 minutes to play the remainder of the contest with the Royals tarring the Yankees 5-4.

• 1987 --- Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Hulda became the oldest person to climb Japan’s highest peak.

  

• 1990 --- A wrongful death trial involving Judas Priest opened in Reno, NV. Parents had charged in a lawsuit that the band's "Stained Class" album contained subliminal messages that drove two teen-agers to attempt suicide. The judge cleared the group. 

• Birthdays
• Bella Abzug
• Amelia Earhart
• Chief Dan George
• Alexander Dumas
• Simon Bolivar
• Jennifer Lopez
• Kristen Chenoweth
• Ruth Buzzi
• Gallagher
• Lynda Carter
• Barry Bonds
• Summer Glau