Today is Monday, the 10th of July of 2023,
July 10 is the 191st day of the year
174 days remain until the end of the year.
The sun rose this morning at 5:56:37 am
and sunset will be at 8:33:33 pm.
We will have 14 hours and 36 minutes of daylight
The solar transit will be at 1:15:05 pm.
Water temperature in San Francisco Bay today is 63.7°F.
The first high tide was at 5:24 am at 4.19 feet
The first low tide will be at 11:10 am at 1.26 feet
The next high tide at 5:55 pm at 6.19 feet
and the final low tide in the next 24 hours will be early tomorrow morning at 12:59 am at 0.87 feet
The Moon is currently 44.6% visible
It’s the Last Quarter Moon as of last night at 6:48 pm
It will become a waning crescent moon
We’ll have a New Moon in 7 days on Monday the 17th of July of 2023 at 11:32 am
Today is…
Today is also….
Armed Forces Day in Mauritania
Independence Day on The Bahamas, celebrates the independence of the Bahamas from the United Kingdom in 1973.
1509 – John Calvin, French pastor and theologian (d. 1564)
1839 – Adolphus Busch, German brewer, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (d. 1913)
1856 – Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engineer (d. 1943)
1871 – Marcel Proust, French novelist, critic, and essayist (d. 1922)
1875 – Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist (d. 1955)
1882 – Ima Hogg, American society leader, philanthropist, patron and collector of the arts (d. 1975)
1895 – Carl Orff, German composer and educator (d. 1982)
1902 – Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1902 – Nicolás Guillén, Cuban poet, journalist, and activist (d. 1989)
1907 – Blind Boy Fuller, American singer and guitarist (d. 1941)
1911 – Terry-Thomas, English comedian and character actor (d. 1990)
1911 – Cootie Williams, American trumpeter and bandleader (d. 1985)
1914 – Joe Shuster, Canadian-American illustrator, co-created Superman (d. 1992)
1920 – David Brinkley, American journalist (d. 2003)
1921 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist, co-founded the Special Olympics (d. 2009)
1926 – Fred Gwynne, American actor (d. 1993)
1927 – David Dinkins, American soldier and politician, 106th Mayor of New York City (d. 2020)
1931 – Alice Munro, Canadian short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1938 – Lee Morgan, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1972)
1939 – Mavis Staples, American singer
1942 – Sixto Rodriguez, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1943 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player and journalist (d. 1993)
1947 – Arlo Guthrie, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1949 – Greg Kihn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1951 – Cheryl Wheeler, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1958 – Béla Fleck, American banjo player and songwriter
1972 – Sofía Vergara, Colombian-American actress and producer
1977 – Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor
1980 – Jessica Simpson, American singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer
…and on this day in history…
1553 – Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
1832 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
1877 – The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
1938 – Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
1962 – Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
1966 – The Chicago Freedom Movement, co-founded by Martin Luther King Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in
Chicago. As many as 60,000 people attend.
1973 – The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1985 – The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents,
killing Fernando Pereira.
1991 – The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of
1991 – Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
1992 – In Miami, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and
racketeering violations.
1997 – In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
1999 – In women's association football, the United States defeated China in a penalty shoot-out at the Rose Bowl near Los Angeles to win the final match of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. The final was watched by 90,185 spectators, which set a new world record for attendance at a women's sporting event.
2000 – Bashar al-Assad succeeds his father Hafez al-Assad as President of Syria.
2002 – At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens's painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5 million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.
2012 – The Episcopal Church USA allows same-sex marriage.
2019 – The last Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla, Mexico. The last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum.
