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Almanac - Monday 8/6/18

Wiggle Toes! Someone's waking up! Taken by flickr user Carol VanHook

Today Monday, 6th of August of 2018 is the 218th day of the year

There are 147 days remaining until the end of the year.

47 days until autumn begins ...

92 days until mid-term elections Tuesday November 6, 2018

(2 months and 31 days from today)

820 days until presidential elections Tuesday November 3, 2020

(2 years 2 months and 28 days from today)

The sun rises at 6:18 am 

and the sun sets at 8:12 pm.

Today we will have 13 hours and 54 minutes of daylight.

Solar noon will be at 1:15 pm.

The first low tide was at 1:41 am

and the next low tide will be at 1:07 pm.

The first high tide will be at 8:37 am 

and the next high tide at 7:39 pm.

A pretty even low-to-medium pollen count this week, topping no higher than 4.6

The Moon is currently 31.2% visible; a Waning Crescent

Moon Direction: ↑ 103.89° ESE

Moon Altitude: 43.40°

Moon Distance: 231133 mi

Next New Moon: Saturday August 11, 2018 at 2:57 am

Next Full Moon: Sunday August 26, 2018 at 4:56 am

Next Moonset: Today at 3:52 pm

Today is…

Assistance Dog Day

Corporate Baby Name Day

National Fresh Breath Day

National Gossip Day

National Root Beer Float Day

Wiggle Your Toes Day

It’s also…

H.H. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Accession Day. (United Arab Emirates)

Independence Day (Bolivia), celebrates the independence of Bolivia from Spain in 1825.

Independence Day (Jamaica), celebrates the independence of Jamaica from the United Kingdom in 1962.

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony (HiroshimaJapan)

Russian Railway Troops Day (Russia)

If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You!  You share this day with…

1809 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)

1911 – Lucille Ball, American actress, television producer and businesswoman (d. 1989)

1916 – Richard Hofstadter, American historian and academic (d. 1970)

1928 – Andy Warhol, American painter and photographer (d. 1987)

1930 – Abbey Lincoln, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2010)

1937 – Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist and composer (d. 2000)

1937 – Charlie Haden, American bassist and composer (d. 2014)

…and on this day in history…

1912 – The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.

1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

1926 – In New York City, the Warner Bros.Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.

1944 – The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Kraków are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising, the Kraków Uprising, that was planned but never carried out.

1945 – World War IIHiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.

1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arenaseries.

1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.

1986 – A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.

1991 – Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.

1996 – The Ramones played their farewell concert at The Palace, Los Angeles, CA.

1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

2012 – NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.