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KALW Almanac - Monday July 25, 2016

Today Monday, 25th of July of 2016 is the 207th day of the year. 

There are 159 days remaining until the end of the year. 

The sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:09 am 

and sunset will be at 8:24 pm. 

Today we will have 14 hours and 15 minutes of sun. 

The solar transit will be at 1:16 pm.

The first high tide was at 4:02 am 

and the next high tide will be at 5:01 pm. 

The first low tide will be at 10:00 am 

and the next low tide at 11:07 pm.

It's a perfect two-thirds Moon: It's 66.6% illuminated, a Waning Gibbous moon

Moonset Today: 12:18 PM↑ 275° West

Today is… 

Culinarians Day

Feast of Saint James

Health and Happiness with Hypnosis Day

International Red Shoe Day

National Hot Fudge Sundae Day

 

National Wine and Cheese Day

 

Thread the Needle Day

 

National Merry-Go-Round Day 

It's also…

Guanacaste Day in Costa Rica

National Day of Galicia in Spain

National Baha'i Day in Jamaica

Puerto Rico Constitution Day

Republic Day in Tunisia

Revolution Day in Egypt

If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you!  You share your special day with...

1847Paul Langerhans, German pathologist, physiologist and biologist (d. 1888)

1848Arthur Balfour, Scottish-English lieutenant and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1930)

 

1870Maxfield Parrish, American painter and illustrator (d. 1966)

1894Walter Brennan, American actor and singer (d. 1974)

1894Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (d. 1918)

1905Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss novelist, playwright, and memoirist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)

1906 Johnny Hodges, American jazz saxophonist and clarinet player; soloist in Duke Ellington's orchestra (d. 1970)

1924Frank Church, American lawyer and politician (d. 1984)

1930Annie Ross, Scottish-American singer and actress (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)

1935Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi Arabian businessman

 

1946Rita Marley, Cuban-Jamaican singer (Bob Marley and the Wailers and I Threes)

On this day in history…

1853Joaquin Murrieta, the famous Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.

1925Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.

1943King Victor Emmanuel announced to Italy that he had accepted the “resignations” of Premier Benito Mussolini and his entire cabinet, leading to the end of Italy’s alliance with Nazi Germany in World War II.

1965Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.

1975The musical "A Chorus Line" opened on Broadway

 

1994Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein signed a declaration at the White House ending their countries' 46-year state of war.

2008California became the first state to ban trans fats from restaurant food.
2010 – WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.