- 177th Day of 2014 / 189Remaining
- Autumn Begins in 88 Days
- Sunrise:5:49
- Sunset:8:35
- 14 Hours 46 Minutes of Daylight
- Moon Rise:5:31am
- Moon Set:8:03pm
- Moon’s Phase: 0 %
- 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:1:11pm/11:49pm
- Low:6:12am/5:52pm
- Holidays
- Descendents Day
- Log Cabin Day
- National Chocolate Pudding Day
- International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
- International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
- Independence Day-Madagascar
- National Flag Day-Romania
- On This Day In …
- 1284 --- The Pied Piper exacted his revenge upon the German town of Hamelin this day. The townspeople had promised to pay the piper a large fee if he could rid their town the nasty rats running all over the place. He had played his trusty pipe and the rats had followed him out of town and into the River Weser. But once the rodents were eliminated, the local folks decided not to pay after all. The piper was not pleased and repaid the townspeople by playing his pipe for the children of Hamelin, just like he had done for the rats. And just like the rats, the children followed him out of town. The Pied Piper of Hamelin led the kiddies into a hole in a hillside. They were never seen again.
- 1483 --- Richard III usurped himself to the English throne.
- 1797 --- Charles Newbold patented the first cast-iron plow. Farmers had doubts about the effect of the iron on the soil.
- 1807 --- Lightning hits a gunpowder factory in the small European country of Luxembourg, killing more than 300 people. Lightning kills approximately 73 people every year in the United States alone, but victims are almost always killed one at a time. The Luxembourg disaster may have been the most deadly lightning strike in history.
- 1819 --- The bicycle was patented by W.K. Clarkson, Jr.
- 1870 --- The original wooden boardwalk in Atlantic City was built. It was taken up during the winter months, and was replaced with a larger boardwalk in 1880, which was destroyed in a hurricane in 1889. It was rebuilt again, and in 1898 rebuilt with steel.
- 1870 --- Christmas was declared a federal holiday in the United States.
- 1894 --- The American Railway Union, led by Eugene Debs, called a general strike in sympathy with Pullman workers.
- 1897 --- Thomas Lynch and John Heydler were umpires in a baseball doubleheader in Washington, D.C. Each of these umpires went on to become a president of the National League.
- 1907 --- Russia's nobility demanded drastic measures to be taken against revolutionaries.
- 1917 --- During World War I, the first 14,000 U.S. infantry troops land in France at the port of Saint Nazaire. The landing site had been kept secret because of the menace of German submarines, but by the time the Americans had lined up to take their first salute on French soil, an enthusiastic crowd had gathered to welcome them.
- 1919 --- The New York Daily News was first published.
- 1925 --- Charlie Chaplin's comedy "The Gold Rush" premiered in Hollywood.
- 1945 --- In the Herbst Theater auditorium in San Francisco, delegates from 50 nations sign the United Nations Charter, establishing the world body as a means of saving "succeeding generations from the scourge of war." The Charter was ratified on October 24, and the first U.N. General Assembly met in London on January 10, 1946.
- 1948 --- The Berlin Airlift began in earnest as the United States, Britain and France began ferrying supplies to the isolated western sector of Berlin after the Soviet Union cut off land and water routes.
- 1956 --- Congress approves the Federal Highway Act, which allocates more than $30 billion for the construction of some 41,000 miles of interstate highways; it will be the largest public construction project in U.S. history to that date.
- 1959 --- In a ceremony presided over by U.S. President Eisenshower and Queen Elizabeth II, the St. Lawrence Seaway is officially opened, creating a navigational channel from the Atlantic Ocean to all the Great Lakes.
- 1963 --- President John F. Kennedy said 'I am a jelly donut' (Ich bin ein Berliner) in a speech to the citizens of Berlin. He meant to say 'I am a Berliner' (Ich bin Berliner). 'Ein Berliner' means jelly donut.
- 1964 --- A Hard Day’s Night was released by United Artists Records. The album featured all original material by The Beatles and became the top album in the country a few weeks later.
- 1971 --- The U.S. Justice Department issued a warrant for Daniel Ellsberg, accusing him of giving away the Pentagon Papers.
- 1973 --- Former White House counsel John W. Dean told the Senate Watergate Committee about an "enemies list" kept by the Nixon White House.
- 1974 --- A package of Wrigley’s chewing gum with a bar code printed on it was the 1st product logged on the new Universal Product Code system (UPC).
- 1975 --- Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency due to "deep and widespread conspiracy."
- 1977 --- Elvis Presley's final concert took place at Market Square Arena, Indianapolis.
- 1985 --- You’ve heard of players, managers and owners being ejected from baseball games, right? But have you ever heard of an organist being given the heave-ho? It happened at Jack Russell Stadium in Clearwater, Florida (the home of the Philadelphia Phillies during spring training; a Class A League team uses the stadium the rest of the season). Wilbur Snapp playedThree Blind Mice following a call by umpire Keith O’Connor. The umpire was not amused and saw to it that Mr. Snapp was sent to the showers.
- 1990 --- President George H.W. Bush, who had campaigned for office on a pledge of "no new taxes," conceded that tax increases would have to be included in any deficit-reduction package.
- 1993 --- In retaliation for an Iraqi plot to assassinate former U.S. President George Bush during his April visit to Kuwait, President Clinton orders U.S. warships to fire Tomahawk cruise missiles at Iraqi intelligence headquarters in downtown Baghdad.
- 1998 --- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers are always potentially liable for supervisor's sexual misconduct toward an employee.
- 2002 --- The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court in San Francisco ruled that the “under God” phrase(inserted by Congress in 1954) in the Pledge of Allegiance is an endorsement of religion andviolates the U.S. Constitution.
- 2008 --- The Supreme Court struck down a handgun ban in the District of Columbia as it affirmed, 5-4, an individual right to gun ownership.
- 2013 --- The Supreme Court ruled that married same-sex couples were entitled to federal benefits and that same-sex marriages were allowed in California in a pair of major victories for the gay rights movement.
- Birthdays
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias
- Abner Doubleday
- Derek Jeter
- Brenda Holloway
- Mick Jones
- Chris Isaac
- Patty Smyth
- Gretchen Wilson
- Pearl Buck
- Peter Lorre
- Col. Tom Parker
- Hack Wilson
