Today is Thursday July 3 is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 181 days remaining until the end of the year.
Sunrise Today: 5:53 AM
the Meridian will be at 1:14 PM
Sunset Today: 8:35 PM
Daylight Hours: 14 hours, 42 minutes (-38s)
Moonrise Today: 11:50 AM
Moon 31.2 %
Waxing Crescent
Low tide will be at 9:56 am at 0.7
High tide again at 5:10 pm at 5.1
Low tide again at 11:09 pm at 2.3
Today is Stay Out Of The Sun Day and Compliment Your Mirror Day
Emancipation Day (United States Virgin Islands)
Independence Day, celebrates the liberation of Minsk from Nazi occupation by Soviet troops in 1944. (Belarus)
The start of the Dog Days according to The Old Farmer's Almanac but not according to established meaning in most European cultures.
Women's Day (Myanmar)
On this day in History:
1035 – William the Conqueror becomes the Duke of Normandy, reigns until 1087.
1890Idaho became the 43rd state.
1988: US warship shoots down Iranian airliner
An American naval warship patrolling in the Persian Gulf shoots down an Iranian passenger jet after apparently mistaking it for a fighter plane.
1971: Doors' singer Jim Morrison found dead
The lead singer of American rock group The Doors dies of heart failure in Paris, aged 27.
1987: Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie gets life
The former chief of Gestapo in Lyon, Klaus Barbie, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a Lyon court.
If today is your birthday, you share it with:
M. F. K. Fisher 7/3/1908 - 6/22/1992 American food essayist and novelist
Franz Kafka 7/3/1883 - 6/3/1924 Czech-born German author
1854 – Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (d. 1928)
1937Tom Stoppard, Playwright, turns 77
1962 – Tom Cruise, American actor and producer
1956Montel Williams, Talk show host, turns 58
1980Olivia Munn, Actress ("The Newsroom"), turns 34
Daily Almanac Thursday July 3, 2014
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