Today is Monday, the 15th of July of 2024,
July 15 is the 197th day of the year
169 days remain until the end of the year.
69 days until autumn begins
The sun rose this morning at 6:00:32 am
and sunset will be at 8:30:48 pm.
We will have 14 hours and 30 minutes of daylight
The solar transit will be at 1:15:40 pm.
Ocean temperature today is about 61°F.
the first low tide will be at 1:16 am at 1.24 feet
The first high tide will be at 7:41 am at 3.56 feet
The next low tide at 12:00 pm at 2.79 feet
and the final high tide at Ocean Beach tonight at 6:32 pm at 5.81 feet
The Moon is currently 65%
It’s a Waxing Crescent
We’ll have a Full Moon in 6 days next Sunday the 21st of July of 2024 at 3:17 am
Today is….
National Get Out of the Doghouse Day
National Give Something Away Day
Today is also….
Bon Festival in the Kantō region of Japan
Festival of Santa Rosalia in Palermo, Sicily
Sultan's Birthday in Brunei Darussalam
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this special day with….
1606 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter and etcher (d. 1669)
1892 – Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and critic (d. 1940)
1905 – Dorothy Fields, American songwriter (d. 1974)
1919 – Iris Murdoch, Anglo-Irish British novelist and philosopher (d. 1999)[21]
1925 – D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (d. 2019)
1929 – Francis Bebey, Cameroonian-French guitarist (d. 2001)
1930 – Jacques Derrida, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (d. 2004)
1931 – Clive Cussler, American archaeologist and author (d. 2020)
1933 – Guido Crepax, Italian author and illustrator (d. 2003)
1944 – Millie Jackson, American singer-songwriter
1946 – Linda Ronstadt, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1950 – Arianna Huffington, Greek-American journalist and publisher
1951 – Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican-English singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
1951 – Jesse Ventura, American wrestler, actor, and politician, 38th Governor of Minnesota
1953 – Alicia Bridges, American singer-songwriter
1956 – Joe Satriani, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1961 – Forest Whitaker, American actor
1963 – Brigitte Nielsen, Danish-Italian actress
1972 – Scott Foley, American actor
1976 – Gabriel Iglesias, Mexican-American comedian and voice actor
….and on this day in history….
1799 – The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.[4]
1834 – The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years.
1838 – Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.
1910 – In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
1916 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
2003 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
2006 – Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched.
2012 – South Korean rapper Psy releases his hit single Gangnam Style.
