- 177th Day of 2015 188 Remaining
- Autumn Begins in 89 Days
- Sunrise:5:49
- Sunset:8:35
- 14 Hours 46 Minutes
- Moon Rise:3;26pm
- Moon Set:2:04am
- Phase:72%
- 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:7:44am/7:26pm
- Low:1:47am/12:57pm
- Holidays
- Beauticians Day
- National Canoe Day
- National Chocolate Pudding Day
- Take Your Dog To Work Day
- Independence Day-Madagascar
- International Day Against Drug Abuse & Trafficking
- National Flag Day-Romania
- International Day Of Support of Victims Of Torture
- On This Day
- 1284 --- The earliest date in legend for when the Pied Piper led all the children of Hamelin away.
- 1797 --- Charles Newbold patented the first cast-iron plow. Farmers had doubts about the effect of the iron on the soil.
- 1804 --- The Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the mouth of the Kansas River after completing a westward trek of nearly 400 river miles.
- 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.
- 1894 --- The American Railway Union, led by Eugene Debs, called a general strike in sympathy with Pullman workers.
- 1917 --- 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.
- 1927 --- The Coney Island Cyclone roller coaster opened in New York.
- 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 Dwight D. Eisenhower 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 --- The Beatles album "A Hard Day’s Night" was released in the U.S.
- 1971 --- The U.S. Justice Department issued a warrant for Daniel Ellsberg, accusing him of giving away the Pentagon Papers.
- 1985 --- During a minor league baseball game in Clearwater, Florida, organ player Wilbur Snapp was ejected from the game for playing 'Three Blind Mice' in response to a bad call by the umpire.
- 1993 --- In retaliation for an Iraqi plot to assassinate former U.S. President George Bush during his April visit to Kuwait, President Bill Clinton orders U.S. warships to fire Tomahawk cruise missiles at Iraqi intelligence headquarters in downtown Baghdad.
- 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
- Pearl Buck
- Peter Lorre
- Abner Doubleday
- Eleanor Parker
- Mick Jones
- Chris Isaak
KALW Almanac 6/26/2015
