KALW Almanac 6/24/2015

KALW | By Joe Burke

Published June 24, 2015 at 5:37 AM PDT

175^th Day of 2015 190 Remaining
Autumn Begins in 91 Days
Sunrise:5:48
Sunset:8:35
14 Hours 47 Minutes
Moon Rise:1:35pm
Moon Set:1:02am
Phase: First Quarter
Full Moon July 1 @ 7:22pm and July 31 @ 3:45pm
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 often called the Full Thunder Moon, for the reason that thunderstorms are most frequent during this time. Another name for this month’s Moon was the Full Hay Moon.
Tides
High:4:57am/6:05pm
Low:11:13am
Holidays
Celebration Of The Senses Day
Museum Comes To Life Day
National Pralines Day
Swim A Lap Day
International Fairy Day
Countryman’s Day-Peru
Discovery Day-Canada
Manila Day-Philippines
Festa De Sao Joao-Brazil
On This Day
1314 --- Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce won over Edward II of England at the Battle of Bannockburn in Scotland.
1374 --- An outbreak of Dancing Mania (sometimes known as 'St. John’s 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.
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.
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, but he had already produced hundreds of paintings.
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.
1948 --- One of the most dramatic standoffs in the history of the Cold War begins as the Soviet Union blocks all road and rail traffic to and from West Berlin.
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 Lyndon B. Johnson the following September, the act created the nation’s first mandatory federal safety standards for motor vehicles
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.
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.
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.
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.)
Birthdays
Pete Hamill
Ambrose Bierce
Michele Lee
Georg Sanford Brown
Jeff Beck
Gustavus Swift
Jack Dempsey