- 176th Day of 2014 / 189 Remaining
- Summer Begins in 5 Days
- Sunrise:5:47
- Sunset:8:33
- 14 Hours 46 Minutes of Daylight
- Moon Rise:11:33pm
- Moon Set:9:54am
- Moon’s Phase: 82 %
- 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:1:13am/3:05pm
- Low:8:03am/8:25pm
- Holidays
- National Fudge Day
- National Nursing Assistants Day
- Recess at Work Day
- Youth Day-South Africa
- Blooms Day-Ireland
- On This Day In …
- 0455 --- Rome was sacked by the Vandal army.
- 1567 --- Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle in Scotland.
- 1794 --- The first stone was laid for the world’s largest grain windmill in Holland. Known as ‘De Walvisch’ (the whale), it is still in existence.
- 1858 --- Newly nominated senatorial candidate Abraham Lincoln speaks to the Illinois Republican Convention in Springfield and warns that the nation faces a crisis that could destroy the Union. Speaking to more than 1,000 delegates in an ominous tone, Lincoln paraphrased a passage from the New Testament: "a house divided against itself cannot stand." The issue dividing the nation was slavery's place in the growing western territories and the extent of federal power over individual states' rights.
- 1883 --- The New York Giants baseball team admitted all ladies for free to the ballpark. It was the first Ladies Day.
- 1884 --- The first roller coaster in America opens at Coney Island, in Brooklyn. Known as a switchback railway, it was the brainchild of LaMarcus Thompson, traveled approximately six miles per hour and cost a nickel to ride. The new entertainment was an instant success and by the turn of the century there were hundreds of roller coasters around the country.
- 1893 --- R.W. Rueckheim invents ‘Cracker Jack’, a popcorn, peanut and molasses confection. It was introduced at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. R.W.'s brother Louis perfected the secret formula in 1896, which prevents the molasses coated popcorn from sticking together. The prize in each box was introduced in 1912.
- 1903 --- A one year old company registered its trade name, Pepsi-Cola. It's original name was ‘Brad's Drink’ after Caleb Bradham, the pharmacist who developed the formula. He developed the formula at his drugstore in New Bern, North Carolina.
- 1904 --- The novel "Ulysses" by James Joyce took place. The main character of the book was Leopold Bloom.
- 1911 --- The forerunner of IBM was incorporated in New York State as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co.
- 1933 --- President Roosevelt opened his New Deal recovery program, signing bank, rail, and industry bills and initiating farm aid.
- 1946 --- Lloyd Mangrum won the U.S. Open golf title after a strange twist of events. Tourney leader Byron Nelson was assessed a penalty stroke when his caddie accidentally kicked his ball ... costing the golfing legend the Open title.
- 1952 --- Gale Storm (Margie Albright) and Charles Farrell (Vernon Albright) starred in My Little Margie which debuted on CBS-TV. Fans of the popular comedy will remember that My Little Margie was based at the Carlton Arms Hotel, Apartment 10-A. Vern Albright was a very eligible widower who worked for the investment firm of Honeywell and Todd. Margie Albright, his 21-year-old daughter, was continually scheming to help dad and continually causing big trouble while helping.
- 1955 --- Argentine naval officers launched an attack on President Juan Peron's headquarters. The revolt was suppressed by the army.
- 1960 --- Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller 'Psycho' premiered.
- 1961 --- Rudolf Nureyev, the young star of the Soviet Union's Kirov Opera Ballet Company, defects during a stopover in Paris. The high-profile defection was a blow to Soviet prestige and generated international interest. Nureyev became a star of Russian ballet in 1958 when, at barely 20 years old, he was made one of the Kirov Opera Ballet's featured soloists. The Kirov and the Bolshoi ballet companies were two of the jewels of Soviet cultural diplomacy, and their performances earned worldwide accolades and respect for the arts in the USSR. In June 1961, the Kirov Company finished a run in Paris. On June 16, just as the company was preparing to board a flight home, Nureyev broke from the group and insisted that he was staying in France. According to eyewitnesses, other members of the troupe pleaded with Nureyev to rejoin them and return to the Soviet Union. The dancer refused and threw himself into the arms of airport security people, screaming, "Protect me!" The security officials took Nureyev into custody, whereupon he asked for political asylum. The Kirov Company fretted over the loss of its star and Soviet security guards fumed over Nureyev's defection. Eventually, the troupe flew back to Russia without the dancer.
- 1963 --- Aboard Vostok 6, Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman to travel into space. After 48 orbits and 71 hours, she returned to earth, having spent more time in space than all U.S. astronauts combined to that date.
- 1967 --- The Monterey International Pop Festival got underway at the Monterey Fairgrounds in Northern California. Fifty thousand spectators flocked to the first major rock festival in U.S. history. Ticket prices ranged from $3.50 to $6.50 to see more than two dozen rock acts, including Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, The Mamas and the Papas, The Who and The Grateful Dead. The festival was immortalized in D.A. Pennebaker’s 1969 documentary Monterrey Pop.
- 1968 --- Lee Trevino wins the U.S. Open at the Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York. Trevino became the first golfer in 68 years to play all four rounds of the U.S. Open golf tournament with sub-par totals of 69, 68, 69 and 67, respectively. His score of 275 for 72 holes tied a U.S. Open record.
- 1970 --- Woodstock Ventures, the sponsors of the original Woodstock, announced that they lost more than $1.2 million on the festival.
- 1976 --- In Soweto, thousands of school children demonstrated against the South African government's plan to enforce Afrikaans as the language for instruction in black schools.
- 1977 --- Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party since 1964, is elected president of the Supreme Soviet, thereby becoming both head of party and head of state. A member of the Soviet Communist Party since 1931, Brezhnev was Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's protege and deputy in the early 1960s.
- 1978 --- President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos exchanged the instruments of ratification for the Panama Canal treaties.
- 1980 --- The movie The Blues Brothers opened in Chicago, IL. John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd, formerly of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, starred. The pair played Jake and Elwood Blues. James Brown, Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin performed. Cab Calloway also appeared with a rendition of his classic Minnie the Moocher.
- 1987 --- A jury in New York acquitted Bernhard Goetz of attempted murder in the subway shooting of four young blacks he said were going to rob him; he was convicted of illegal weapons possession.
- 1992 --- Sister Souljah called future U.S. President Bill Clinton a "draft dodging, pot smoking womanizer." Clinton had criticized Sister Souljah on June 13, 1992.
- 1993 --- The U.S. Postal Service released a set of seven stamps that featured Bill Haley, Buddy Holly, Clyde McPhatter, Otis Redding, Ritchie Valens, Dinah Washington and Elvis Presley.
- 1996 --- Russians voted in the country's first independent presidential election; the result was a runoff between President Boris Yeltsin, the eventual winner, and a Communist challenger.
- 2008 --- California began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
- 2011 --- Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., announced his resignation from Congress, bowing to the furor caused by his sexually charged online dalliances with a former porn actress and other women.
- Birthdays
- Geronimo
- Mary Catherine Goddard
- Stan Laurel
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Billy “Crash” Craddock
- Joan Van Ark
- Roberto Duran
- Laurie Metcalf
- Jean Peugeot
- Lamont Dozier
- Tupac Shakur
