Today is Thursday, the 4th of July of 2019...It is the 185th day of the year, 180 days remain until the end of the year, 81 days until autumn begins,488 days until presidential elections Tuesday November 3, 2020...
(1 year 3 months and 30 days from today)
The Aphelion, the point in the year when the Earth is farthest from the Sun, occurs around this date
The sun rises at 5:53 am
and the sun sets at 8:35 pm.
We will have 14 hours and 42 minutes of daylight.
The first high tide will be at 12:30 am
The first low tide will be at 7:22 am
Solar noon will be at 1:14 pm.
the next high tide at 2:44 pm.
and the final low tide at 7:15 pm.
The Moon is 4.0% visible; a Waxing Crescent
Moon Direction:29.09° NNE↑
Moon Altitude:-26.99°
Moon Distance:226230 mi
Next Moonrise:Today7:54 am
First Quarter Moon in 5 days Tuesday the 9th of July of 2019 at 3:55 am
Full Moon in 12 days on Tuesday the 16th of July of 2019 at 2:38 pm
and a Partial Lunar Eclipse
Last Quarter Moon in 20 days on Wednesday the 24th of July of 2019 at 6:18 pm
New Moon in 27 days Wednesday the 31st of July of 2019 at 8:12 pm
Today is…
National Barbecued Spareribs Day
Today is also…
Birthday of Queen Sonja in Norway
The first evening of Dree Festival, celebrated until July 7 for the Apatani people, Arunachal Pradesh, India
Independence Day, celebrates the Declaration of Independence of the United States from Great Britain in 1776.
Liberation Day in the Northern Mariana Islands
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you! You share this special day with
1826 – Stephen Foster, American songwriter and composer (d. 1864)
1872 – Calvin Coolidge, American lawyer and politician, 30th President of the United States (d. 1933)
1883 – Rube Goldberg, American sculptor, cartoonist, and engineer (d. 1970)
1902 – Meyer Lansky, American gangster (d. 1983)
1902 – George Murphy, American actor and politician (d. 1992)
1911 – Mitch Miller, American singer and producer (d. 2010)
1916 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, American typist and broadcaster (d. 2006)
1920 – Leona Helmsley, American businesswoman (d. 2007)
1927 – Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress and photographer
1927 – Neil Simon, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 2018)
1930 – George Steinbrenner, American businessman (d. 2010)
1937 – Queen Sonja of Norway
1938 – Bill Withers, American singer-songwriter and producer
1941 – Sam Farr, American politician
1941 – Brian Willson, American soldier, lawyer, and activist
1942 – Peter Rowan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1943 – Geraldo Rivera, American lawyer, journalist, and author
1946 – Ron Kovic, American author and activist
1946 – Michael Milken, American businessman and philanthropist
…and on this day in history…
1774 – Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts
1776 – American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
1817 – In Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins.
1827 – Slavery is abolished in the State of New York.
1845 – Henry David Thoreau moves into a small cabin on Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau's account of his two years there, Walden, will become a touchstone of the environmental movement.
1855 – The first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, Leaves of Grass, is published In Brooklyn.
1862 – Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels.
1881 – In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
1939 – Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, informs a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth", then announces his retirement from major league baseball.
1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year.
1997 – NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.