- 175th Day of 2014 / 190 Remaining
- Autumn Begins in 90 Days
- Sunrise:5:49
- Sunset:8:35
- 14 Hours 46 Minutes of Daylight
- Moon Rise:3:57am
- Moon Set:6:21pm
- Moon’s Phase: 6 %
- The Next Full Moon
- July 12 @ 4:26 am
- Full Buck Moon
- 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 named for the thunderstorms that are most common during this time. And in some areas it was called the Full Hay Moon.
- Tides
- High:10:39am/9:28pm
- Low:3:56am/3:22pm
- Holidays
- Celebration Of The Senses Day
- National Creamy Pralines Day
- Countryman’s Day-Peru
- Discovery Day (Newfoundland and Labrador)-Canada
- Manila Day-Philippines
- Midsummer’s Day-Estonia/Latvia
- On This Day In …
- 1314 --- Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce won over Edward II of England at the Battle of Bannockburn in Scotland.
- 1347 --- An outbreak of Dancing Mania (sometimes known as 'St. John’s or St Vitus’ Dance') occurred in Aix-la-Chapelle, France. People were overcome with bouts of uncontrollable, manic dancing. Frothing at the mouth, screaming, and sexual frenzy were other symptoms. Ergot (fungus) poisoning (from grain) is now believed to have been the ultimate cause.
- 1497 --- Italian explorer John Cabot, sailing in the service of England, landed in North America on what is now Newfoundland.
- 1509 --- Henry VIII was crowned king of England.
- 1532 --- Robert Dudley, the earl of Leicester, was born. Dudley was Queen Elizabeth I’s first court favorite. She called him her 'puppy.' He is the dog who laughs in the nursery rhyme 'Hey diddle diddle,' when the dish runs away with the spoon, i.e., when Lady Elizabeth Throckmorton, one of the Queen’s ladies in waiting, ran away with the Queen’s taster, the Earl of Hereford, since he did not favor the tight reign Elizabeth kept on her court. He was also the step-father of her second lover, the Earl of Essex.
- 1793 --- The first republican constitution in France was adopted.
- 1812 --- Following the rejection of his Continental System by Czar Alexander I, French Emperor Napoleon orders his Grande Armee, the largest European military force ever assembled to that date, into Russia. The enormous army, featuring some 500,000 soldiers and staff, included troops from all the European countries under the sway of the French Empire.
- 1869 --- Mary Ellen "Mammy" Pleasant officially became the Vodoo Queen in San Francisco.
- 1896 --- Booker T. Washington became the first African American to receive an honorary MA degree from Howard University.
- 1901 --- The first major exhibition of Pablo Picasso's artwork opens at a gallery on Paris' rue Lafitte, a street known for its prestigious art galleries. The precocious 19-year-old Spaniard was at the time a relative unknown outside Barcelona. The 75 works displayed at Picasso's first Paris exhibition offered moody, representational paintings by a young artist with obvious talent.
- 1916 --- The most lucrative movie contract to the time was signed by actress Mary Pickford. She inked the first seven-figure Hollywood deal. Pickford would get $250,000 per film with a guaranteed minimum of $10,000 a week against half of the profits, including bonuses and the right of approval of all creative aspects of her films. It cost $1,040,000 and two years of movie making for Adolph Zukor at Paramount Pictures.Mary Pickford was the subject of many Hollywood firsts other than this million-dollar deal. She was Hollywood’s first bankable name, commanding a star-status salary of $275 a week as early as 1911, and $500 a week in 1913 when producer B.P. Schulberg named her America’s sweetheart.
- 1922 --- The American Professional Football Association took on a new name. They decidedto name themselves the National Football League.
- 1945 --- Soviet troops parade past Red Square in celebration of their victory over Germany. As drums rolled, 200 soldiers performed a familiar ritual: They threw 200 German military banners at the foot of the Lenin Mausoleum. A little over 130 years earlier, victorious Russian troops threw Napoleon's banners at the feet of Czar Alexander I.
- 1948 --- Berlin, Germany was completely isolated from the outside world. Joseph Stalin, premier of Soviet Russia, who had already cut rail and road access to the city three months earlier, now blocked all ground and water access and cut electricity to the Western sector. Within a few days, the great Berlin Airlift began. U.S. planes dropped up to 13,000 tons of goods per day - for the next 10 months -- until Stalin lifted the blockade on May 23, 1949.
- 1949 --- The movie features of Hopalong Cassidy premiered on TV. The films were edited to thirty and sixty-minute versions starring William Boyd as Hopalong and Edgar Buchanan as his sidekick, Red Connors. Eventually, all 66 original films were shown on TV, so Boyd produced more Hopalong Cassidy episodes just for TV.
- 1964 --- The Federal Trade Commission announced that starting in 1965, cigarette manufactures would be required to include warnings on their packaging about the harmful effects of smoking.
- 1965 --- John Lennon's second book, "A Spaniard in the Works" was published.
- 1966 --- The Senate votes 76-0 for the passage of what will become the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act. Signed into law by President Johnson the following September, the act created the nation's first mandatory federal safety standards for motor vehicles.
- 1972 --- I Am Woman, by Helen Reddy, was released by Capitol Records. The number one tune (December 9, 1972) became an anthem for the feminist movement.
- 1973 --- Eamon de Valera, the world's oldest statesman, resigns as president of Ireland at the age of 90. The most dominant Irish political figure of the 20th century, Eamon de Valera was born in New York City in 1882, the son of a Spanish father and Irish mother. When his father died two years later, he was sent to live with his mother's family in County Limerick, Ireland. He attended the Royal University in Dublin and became an important figure in the Irish-language revival movement.
- 1975 --- An Eastern Airlines jet crashes near John F Kennedy International Airport in New York City, killing 115 people on this day in 1975. The Boeing 727 was brought down by wind shear, a sudden change in wind speed or direction.
- 1982 --- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that no president could be sued for damages connected with actions taken while serving as President of the United States.
- 1995 --- South Africa defeats New Zealand in the finals of the Rugby World Cup at Ellis Park in Johannesburg while a special guest looks on: Nelson Mandela, who had become the first president of South Africa to be elected in a fully representational democratic election the previous year. Mandela wore the jersey of Francois Penaar, South Africa’s team captain.
- 1997 --- The Air Force released a report on the so-called "Roswell Incident," suggesting the alien bodies witnesses reported seeing in 1947 were actually life-sized dummies.
- 1997 --- The Walt Disney Corporation orders one of its subsidiary record labels to recall 100,000 already shipped copies of an album by a recently signed artist—Insane Clown Posse—on the day of its planned release. The issue at hand: the graphic nature of the Detroit "horror-core" rap duo's lyrics.
- 2002 --- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that juries, not judges, must make the decision to give a convicted killer the death penalty.
- 2002 --- A painting from Monet's Waterlilies series sold for $20.2 million.
- 2004 --- Federal investigators questioned President George W. Bush for more than an hour in connection with the news leak of a CIA operative's name.
- 2009 --- After going AWOL for seven days, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admitted that he had secretly flown to Argentina to visit his mistress.
- 2010 --- John Isner of the U.S. defeated Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon in the longest-ever professional match: 11 hours, 5 minutes over three days. (Isner won the fifth set 70-68.)
- 2011 --- New York State legalized same-sex marriage.
- Birthdays
- Arthur Brown
- Jeff Beck
- Gustavus Franklin Swift
- Jack Dempsey
- Michele Lee
- Georg Sanford Brown
- Mick Fleetwood
- Juli Inkster
