- 262nd Day of 2013 / 103 Remaining
- 3 Days Until The First Day of Autumn
- Sunrise:6:55
- Sunset:7:10
- 12 Hours 15 Minutes of Daylight
- Moon Rise:7:14am
- Moon Set:7:11pm
- Full Moon @ 4:12am
- Full Corn Moon
- Full Barley Moon
This full Moon corresponds with the time of harvesting corn. It is also called the Barley Moon, because it is the time to harvest and thresh the ripened barley. The Harvest Moon is the full Moon nearest the autumnal equinox, which can occur in September or October and is bright enough to allow finishing all the harvest chores.
- Tides
- High:11:26am/11:47pm
- Low:5:01am/5:30pm
- Rainfall (measured July 1 – June 30)
- Normal To Date:0.11
- This Year:0.05
- Last Year:0.02
- Annual Seasonal Average:23.80
- Holidays
- National Woman Road Warrior Day
- National Butterscotch Pudding Day
- International Talk Like a Pirate Day
- International Women's Ecommerce Day
- Respect For the Aged Day-Japan
- Armed Forces Day-Chile
- Moscow Day-Russia
- On This Day In …
- 1783 --- The Montgolfier brothers successfully sent up some live
animals in a hot air balloon, including a sheep and a rooster.
- 1819 --- It was such a beautiful fall day that poet John Keats was inspired to take out pen and pad. He inked one of the best-loved English poems, Ode to Autumn.
- 1876 --- Melville Bissell patented the carpet sweeper.
- 1881 --- President James A. Garfield died of wounds inflicted by an assassin more than two months earlier.
- 1891 --- "The Merchant of Venice" was performed for the first time at Manchester.
- 1955 --- After a decade of rule, Argentine President Juan Domingo Peron is deposed in a military coup. Peron, a demagogue who came to power in 1946 with the backing of the working classes, became increasingly authoritarian as Argentina's economy declined in the early 1950s. His greatest political resource was his
charismatic wife, Eva "Evita" Peron, but she died in 1952, signaling the collapse of the national coalition that had backed him. Having antagonized the church, students, and others, he was forced into exile by the military in September 1955. He settled in Spain, where he served as leader-in-exile to the "Peronists"--a powerful faction of Argentines who remained loyal to him and his system.
- 1957 --- The United States detonates a 1.7 kiloton nuclear weapon in an underground tunnel at the Nevada Test Site (NTS), a 1,375 square mile research center located 65 miles north of Las Vegas. The test, known as Rainier, was the first fully contained underground detonation and produced no radioactive fallout. A modified W-25 warhead weighing 218 pounds and measuring 25.7 inches in diameter and 17.4 inches in length was used for the test. Rainier was part of a series of 29 nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons safety tests known as Operation Plumbbob that were conducted at the NTS between May 28, 1957, and October 7, 1957.
- 1959 --- The leader of the U.S.S.R., Nikita Khruschev, was a little upset. In fact, he got quite angry. And who could blame him. He wasn’t allowed to ride down the Matterhorn, see Tinkerbell or Mickey or anything else at Disneyland. Security - or lack thereof - prevented him from visiting the Southern California amusement park.
- 1970 --- The Mary Tyler Moore Show was seen for the first time on
CBS-TV. It became one of the most successful television shows of the 1970s. The last, original episode aired on September 3, 1977.
- 1973 --- Musician Gram Parsons dies of "multiple drug use" (morphine and tequila) in a California motel room. His death inspired one of the more bizarre automobile-related crimes on record: Two of his friends stashed his body in a borrowed hearse and drove it into the middle of the Joshua Tree National Park, where they doused it with gasoline and set it on fire.
- 1981 --- For their first concert in years, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunited for a free concert to benefit New York City parks.
The concert attracted a crowd of 500,000 people in Central Park and was broadcast to a TV audience in the millions.
- 1985 --- In Mexico City, this day will forever be remembered.
The first of two killer earthquakes hit the city. This one, 8.1 on the Richter scale, followed the next day by a 7.5er, crumbled buildings (damages were estimated at more than one billion dollars) and killed almost 10,000 people.
- 1988 --- U.S. diver Greg Louganis struck and injured his head on the board in a preliminary round of springboard diving at the Summer
Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Days later, however, Louganis won the gold medal in springboard diving.
- 1991 --- Ötzi, the Iceman, was found by a German tourist, Helmut Simon, on the Similaun Glacier in the Tirolean Ötztal Alps, on the Italian-Austrian border. The body is that of a man aged 25 to 35 who had been about 5 feet 2 inches (1.6 meters) tall and had weighed
about 50 kg (110 pounds), is the oldest mummified human body ever found intact -- some 5000 years old. And his few remaining scalp hairs provided the earliest archaeological evidence of haircutting. And, if that’s not enough, Ötzi was found to have a number of ‘points’ tattooed on his body, 80% of which are considered valid modern acupucture points and dates acupuncture back to at least 3300 B.C.
- 1995 --- The Washington Post publishes a 35,000-word manifesto written by the Unabomber, who since the late 1970s had eluded authorities while carrying out a series of bombings across the
United States that killed 3 people and injured another 23. After reading the manifesto, David Kaczynski realized the writing style was similar to that of his brother, Theodore Kaczynski, and notified the F.B.I. On April 3, 1996, Ted Kaczynski was arrested at his isolated cabin near Lincoln, Montana, where investigators found evidence linking him to the Unabomber crimes.
- 2008 --- Struggling to stave off financial catastrophe, the Bush administration asked Congress for $700 billion to buy up troubled mortgage-related assets from U.S. financial institutions.
- Birthdays
- Mama Cass Elliot
- Lesley Hornby / 'Twiggy'
- Frances Farmer
- Adam West
- Brian Epstein
- Freda Payne
- James Lipton
- Roger Angell
- Jimmy Fallon
- Joe Morgan
- Bill Medley
- David Bromberg
- Randolph Mantooth
- Jeremy Irons
- Cheri Oteri
- Soledad O’Brien
- Leon Jaworski
- Justice Lewis F Powell
- Elizabeth Stern