Today’s Words are
Yang
Yin
Yin-Yang
From moonlitpriestess.com
Male, day, light, hot, spirals outward, God, summer; equal and opposite of Yin.
Female, night, dark, cold, spirals inward, Goddess, winter; equal and opposite of Yang.
Tag: Daily Witch Correspondences
July 12 Astronomy Picture of the Day
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2022 July 12
Noctilucent Clouds over Paris
Credit & Copyright: Bertrand Kulik
Explanation: It’s northern noctilucent cloud season. Composed of small ice crystals forming only during specific conditions in the upper atmosphere, noctilucent clouds may become visible at sunset during late summer when illuminated by sunlight from below. Noctilucent clouds are the highest clouds known and now established to be polar mesospheric clouds observed from the ground. Although observed with NASA’s AIM satellite since 2007, much about noctilucent clouds remains unknown and so a topic of active research. The featured image shows expansive and rippled noctilucent clouds wafting over Paris, France. This year, several northern locations are already reporting especially vivid displays of noctilucent clouds.
July 12 Today in History
Today’s Important Historical Events
1679 Britain’s King Charles II ratifies Habeas Corpus Act allowing prisoners right to be imprisoned to be examined by a court
1690 Battle of Boyne: in Ireland, Protestant King William III defeats English Catholic King James II
1790 French Revolution: The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is adopted, putting the Catholic Church in France under the control of the state
1804 Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot in a pistol duel the previous day by Vice President Aaron Burr
1863 In New Zealand, British forces invade Waikato, home of the Maori King Movement, beginning a new phase of the wars between Maori and Colonial British
1913 150,000 Ulstermen gather and resolve to resist Irish Home Rule by force of arms; since the British Liberals have promised the Irish nationalists Home Rule, civil war appears imminent
1943 World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka – Russians defeat German forces in one of the largest ever tank battles
1957 US Surgeon General Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer
Today’s Historical Events
526 St Felix IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
927 King Aethelstan is the first southern English king to gain control of much of the north of Britain when various local kings accept his overlordship at Eamont, Cumbria
1109 Crusaders capture Syria’s harbor city of Tripoli
1191 English King Richard I the Lionheart and Crusaders defeat Saracens in Palestine
1442 King Alfonso V of Aragon becomes King of Naples
1537 Battle of Albancay: Diego de Almagro defeated by army led by Alonso de Alvarado on behalf of Francisco Pizarro
1542 French troops under Maarten van Rossem occupy Flanders
1549 Kett’s uprising occupies Norwich, England
Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV
1928 1st televised tennis match
1953 KTVB TV channel 7 in Boise, ID (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1959 NBC uses cameras to show catchers signals during Yankee-Red Sox game
1960 XEWT TV channel 12 in Tijuana-San Diego, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1976 1st “Family Feud” game show debuts on ABC hosted by Richard Dawson
1993 Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s musical “Sunset Boulevard”, based on Billy Wilder‘s 1950 film, starring Patti Lupone and Daniel Benzali, opens at the Adelphi Theatre, London
2002 Hindi film “Devdas” premieres directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and starring Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai and Madhuri Dixit (Best Film Filmfare Awards)
2012 45th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
Today’s Historical Events in Music
1946 Benjamin Britten‘s “Rape of Lucretia” premieres at Glyndebourne Opera Festival
1958 “Li’l Abner” closes at St James Theater, NYC, after 693 performances
1962 Rolling Stones 1st performance (Marquee Club, London)
1976 Ian Dury & Kilburns disband
1985 “Singin’ in the Rain”, musical adaptation of the 1952 film, opens at Gershwin Theater, NYC; runs for 367 performances
1990 “Les Miserables,” opens at National Theatre, Washington, DC
1992 Axl Rose arrested on riot charges in St Louis stemming from a concert on Jul 2
Today’s Historical Events in Sports
1817 Karl Drais von Sauerbronn demonstrates bicycle course
1901 Cy Young wins his 300th game
1921 Babe Ruth sets record of 137 career home runs
1921 Indians (9) & Yankees (7) combine for an AL record 16 doubles
1926 Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:26.2)
1927 Yankees slugger Babe Ruth half way to his MLB record of 60 home runs; smacks #30 of Joe Shaute in 9th inning in New York’s 7-0 win over Cleveland Indians at Dunn Field
1928 1st televised tennis match
1930 US Open Men’s Golf, Interlachen CC: Defending champion Bobby Jones wins record-tying 4th US Open title by 2 strokes from Macdonald Smith; third consecutive major title
July 11 Astronomy Picture of the Day
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2022 July 11
Andromeda over the Sahara Desert
Credit & Copyright: Jordi Coy
Explanation: What is the oldest thing you can see? At 2.5 million light years distant, the answer for the unaided eye is the Andromeda galaxy, because its photons are 2.5 million years old when they reach you. Most other apparent denizens of the night sky — stars, clusters, and nebulae — appear as they were only a few hundred to a few thousand years ago, as they lie well within our own Milky Way Galaxy. Given its distance, light from Andromeda is likely also the farthest object that you can see. Also known as M31, the Andromeda Galaxy dominates the center of the featured zoomed image, taken from the Sahara Desert in Morocco last month. The featured image is a combination of three background and one foreground exposure — all taken with the same camera and from the same location and on the same calendar day — with the foreground image taken during the evening blue hour. M110, a satellite galaxy of Andromenda is visible just above and to the left of M31’s core. As cool as it may be to see this neighboring galaxy to our Milky Way with your own eyes, long duration camera exposures can pick up many faint and breathtaking details. Recent data indicates that our Milky Way Galaxy will collide and combine with the similarly-sized Andromeda galaxy in a few billion years.
Pagan and Magickal Terms and Definitions
Today’s Word is
Natural Magick
From moonlitpriestess.com
Another term for Earth Magick, magick that is drawn from the energies of the Earth, natural objects, the Elements, etc.
July 11 Today in History
Today’s Important Historical Events
1405 Chinese fleet commander Zheng He sets sail on his first major expedition, to the Spice Islands, leading 208 vessels, including 62 treasure ships with 27,800 sailors
1533 Pope Clement VII excommunicates England’s King Henry VIII
1818 English poet John Keats writes “In the Cottage Where Burns is Born”, “Lines Written in the Highlands”, and “Gadfly”
1877 Kate Edger becomes New Zealand’s first woman graduate and first woman in the British Empire to earn a Bachelor of Arts
1944 Franklin Roosevelt announces that he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States
1995 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men are massacred when Bosnian Serbs overrun the UN ‘safe haven’ of Srebrenica
Today’s Historical Events
138 Antoninus Pius succeeds Hadrian as Emperor of Rome
911 Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy
1156 Siege of Shirakawa-den in Japan
1244 Khwarezmian Tatars sack Jerusalem, decimating the city’s Christian population and driving out Jews
1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch) near Kortrijk, Belgium. Flemish coalition defeat French army
1346 Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
1347 Heir to the Bohemian throne elected German anti-king Charles IV
1405 Chinese fleet commander Zheng He sets sail on his first major expedition, to the Spice Islands, leading 208 vessels, including 62 treasure ships with 27,800 sailors
Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV
1895 Auguste and Louis Lumière show film for scientists
1922 The Hollywood Bowl opens.
1967 “The Newlywed Game” premieres in the US on ABC TV
1983 Lorraine Elizabeth Downes, 19, of NZ, crowned 32nd Miss Universe
2007 “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”, the 5th film based on the books by J. K. Rowling is released
2013 “Orange Is the New Black” premieres on Netflix starring Taylor Schilling, first series to be nominated for comedy and drama Emmy awards
Today’s Historical Events in Music
1967 Kenny Rogers forms 1st Edition
1969 David Bowie releases the single “Space Oddity” 9 days before Apollo 11 lands on the moon
1969 Rolling Stones release “Honky Tonk Woman”
1982 “7 Brides for 7 Brothers” closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 5 performances
1984 Britain’s MusicBox begins satellite transmission to Europe
1987 Heart’s “Alone” single goes #1 for 3 weeks
1995 Shaggy releases his third studio album “Bombastic” (Grammy Award Best Reggae Album)
- 2021 Billionaire Richard Branson flies to the edge of space on his Virgin Galactic rocket plane in space tourism test
Today’s Historical Events in Sports
1900 Charlotte Cooper beats Hélène Prévost to become the 1st female Olympic tennis champion and the 1st individual female Olympic champion in any sport
1912 There are 6 medallists in the Stockholm Olympic pole vault; American Harry Babcock takes gold (3.95m); countrymen Frank Nelson and Marc Wright dead-heat for silver; 3-man dead-heat for bronze
1914 Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth makes his MLB debut as a pitcher for Boston Red Sox; earns 4-3 win against the Cleveland Naps at Fenway Park
1923 Harry Frazee, sells Red Sox to Ohio businessmen for $1M
1930 21 year old Australian cricket super-batsman Don Bradman is 105 at lunch, 220 at tea, and 309 at stumps on the first day in 3rd Test vs England at Leeds; goes on to 334
1931 NY Giants beat Phillies 23-8
1939 7th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Yankee Stadium, New York NY Yankee/AL maanager Joe McCarthy starts 6 Yankees
1944 12th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh
July 10 Astronomy Picture of the Day
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2022 July 10
In the Center of the Cat’s Eye Nebula
Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, HLA; Reprocessing & Copyright: Raul Villaverde
Explanation: Three thousand light-years away, a dying star throws off shells of glowing gas. This image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals the Cat’s Eye Nebula (NGC 6543), to be one of the most complex planetary nebulae known. Spanning half a light-year, the features seen in the Cat’s Eye are so complex that astronomers suspect the bright central object may actually be a binary star system. The term planetary nebula, used to describe this general class of objects, is misleading. Although these objects may appear round and planet-like in small telescopes, high resolution images with large telescopes reveal them to be stars surrounded by cocoons of gas blown off in the late stages of stellar evolution. Gazing into this Cat’s Eye, astronomers may well be seeing more than detailed structure, they may be seeing the fate of our Sun, destined to enter its own planetary nebula phase of evolution … in about 5 billion years.
July 9 Astronomy Picture of the Day
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2022 July 9
Saturn and the ISS
Image Credit & Copyright: Tom Glenn
Explanation: Soaring high in skies around planet Earth, bright planet Saturn was a star of June’s morning planet parade. But very briefly on June 24 it posed with a bright object in low Earth orbit, the International Space Station. On that date from a school parking lot in Temecula, California the ringed-planet and International Space Station were both caught in this single high-speed video frame. Though Saturn was shining at +0.5 stellar magnitude the space station was an even brighter -3 on the magnitude scale. That difference in brightness is faithfully represented in the video capture frame. In the challenging image, the orbiting ISS was at a range of 602 kilometers. Saturn was about 1.4 billion kilometers from the school parking lot.
July 8 Astronomy Picture of the Day
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2022 July 8
Roots on a Rotating Planet
Image Credit & Copyright: Marcella Giulia Pace
Explanation: With roots on a rotating planet, an old tree is centered in this sequence of 137 exposures each 20 seconds long, recorded one night from northern Sicily. Digital camera and fisheye lens were fixed to a tripod to capture the dramatic timelapse, so the stars trailed through the region’s dark sky. Of course that makes it easy to spot the planet’s north celestial pole. The extension of Earth’s axis of rotation into space is toward the upper left, at the center of the concentric star trail arcs. The Milky Way is there too. The plane of our galaxy stretches across the wide field of view from north to east (left to right) creating a broader luminous band of diffuse starlight.
Some of the Witchcraft/Magickal Correspondence Digest for Friday
From AncientPathway.com
| Magickal Intentions: Love, Romance, Marriage, Sexual Matters, Physical Beauty, Friendship and Partnerships, Strangers, Heart |
Incense: Strawberry Sandalwood Rose Saffron Vanilla |
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| Planet: Venus |
Sign: Libra Taurus |
Angel: |
| Colors: Green Pink Aqua |
Herbs/Plants: Pink Rose Ivy Birch Heather Clematis Sage Violet Water Lilly |
Stones: Rose Quartz Moonstone Pink Tourmaline Peridot Emerald Jade |
Pagan and Magickal Terms and Definitions
Today’s Word is
Banishing
From moonlitpriestess.com
Removing, pushing away, or expelling something or someone magickally; generally for removing negativity or unwanted spirits.
July 8 Today in History
Today’s Important Historical Events
1099 First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on
1497 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama departs on his first voyage, will become the 1st European to reach India by sea
1777 Independent Vermont introduces a new constitution, prohibiting slavery
1800 Dr Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination in the US to his son to prevent smallpox
1853 Commodore Matthew C. Perry sails his frigate Susquehanna into Tokyo Bay, opening Japan to Western influence and trade
1948 500th anniversary of the Russian Orthodox Church celebrated in Moscow
1949 South Africa’s Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act commences, prohibiting marriage or a sexual relationship between White people and people of other races [1]
Today’s Historical Events
939 The Major Occultation, or Ghaybat el-Kubra of Muhammad al-Mahdi
1099 First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on
1283 War of the Sicilian Vespers: Battle of Malta
1497 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama departs on his first voyage, will become the 1st European to reach India by sea
1579 Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, was discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan
1663 King Charles II of England grants a charter to Rhode Island
1672 William III is appointed stadholder by the States General in the Netherlands
1680 The first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts
Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV
1954 KMOX (now KMOV) TV channel 4 in Saint Louis, MO (CBS) 1st broadcast
1982 15th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Hotel San Diego
2005 Marvel superhero film “The Fantastic Four” starring Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis premieres
2010 “Inception”, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, premieres in London
Today’s Historical Events in Music
1946 “Tidbits of 1946” opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 8 performances
1949 Monte Irvin & Hank Thompson, 1st black players for New York Giants, 4-3 loss to Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field
1982 “7 Brides for 7 Brothers” opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 5 performances
1988 Rockers Jonathan “Chico” & Robert DeBarge indicted on drug trafficking
1988 Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992; he does not follow through
1996 British girls group the Spice Girls release their debut single “Wannabe” in the UK
Today’s Historical Events in Sports
1889 John L. Sullivan successfully defends last officially sanctioned, bare-knuckle world heavyweight prizefighting championship; Jake Kilrain’s trainer throws in towel after 75 x 1-minute rounds near Hattiesburg, Mississippi
1889 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: William Renshaw wins his 7th Wimbledon singles title; beats twin brother Ernest Renshaw 6-4, 6-1, 3-6, 6-0
1898 Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Red Donahue no-hits Boston Beaneaters, 5-0 at the Baker Bowl
1902 Baltimore manager John McGraw is accused by AL President Ban Johnson of trying to wreck the Orioles & Washington Senators; negotiates his release from the Orioles, having already signed with NY Giants
1905 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: May Sutton becomes first American player to win the singles title at Wimbledon; beats Dorothea Chambers 6-3, 6-4
1905 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Home town favourite Laurence Doherty wins his 4th consecutive Wimbledon singles title; beats Norman Brookes of Australia 8-6 6-2 6-4
1909 1st pro baseball game (minor league) played under lights
1911 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Anthony Wilding of New Zealand wins 2nd of 4 consecutive Wimbledon singles titles beating Herbert Roper-Barrett 6-4, 4-6, 2-6, 6-2 ret
July 7 Astronomy Picture of the Day
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2022 July 7
The NGC 6914 Complex
Image Credit & Copyright: Giorgio Ferrari
Explanation: A study in contrasts, this colorful skyscape features stars, dust, and glowing gas in the vicinity of NGC 6914. The interstellar complex of nebulae lies some 6,000 light-years away, toward the high-flying northern constellation Cygnus and the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. Obscuring interstellar dust clouds appear in silhouette while reddish hydrogen emission nebulae, along with the dusty blue reflection nebulae, fill the cosmic canvas. Ultraviolet radiation from the massive, hot, young stars of the extensive Cygnus OB2 association ionize the region’s atomic hydrogen gas, producing the characteristic red glow as protons and electrons recombine. Embedded Cygnus OB2 stars also provide the blue starlight strongly reflected by the dust clouds. The over 1 degree wide telescopic field of view spans about 100 light-years at the estimated distance of NGC 6914.
Pagan and Magickal Terms and Definitions
Today’s Words are
Astral Plane
and
Astral Projection
From moonlitpriestess.com
Realm believed to be beyond space and time; considered by some as an alternative dimension running alongside the physical realm we currently inhabit where beings (including ourselves) can travel and interact in spirit or astrally; sometimes visited to perform magick that can affect change on the physical plane.
AND
Also called astral traveling; the art of “leaving one’s body” while in a trance state to visit other locations or realms astrally, or “in spirit.” Traveling into the astral plane, generally understood as a parallel world unseen in our world of form. Studies have shown an individual successfully astral projecting can be seen and heard by a non-projecting individual on this plane, giving credit to this ability.
July 7 Today in History
Today’s Important Historical Events
1520 Battle of Otumba, Mexico: Hernán Cortés and the Tlaxcalans defeat a numerically superior Aztec force
1937 Japanese and Chinese troops clash at the Marco Polo Bridge, beginning the Second Sino-Japanese War
1947 Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident
2005 Coordinated terrorist bomb blasts strike London’s public transport system during the morning rush hour killing 52 and injuring 700
2005 Influenced by global Live 8 concerts, G8 leaders pledge to double 2004 levels of aid to Africa from US$25 to US$50 billion by the year 2010
Today’s Historical Events
1124 Tyrus surrenders to Crusaders
1438 King Charles VII issues the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges stating that a General Church Council with superior power to the Pope must be held every 10 years
1456 A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death
1495 King Ferdinand II returns to Naples
1498 Emperor Maximilian I establishes choir of Imperial Chapel
1520 Battle of Otumba, Mexico: Hernán Cortés and the Tlaxcalans defeat a numerically superior Aztec force
1534 European colonization of the Americas: first known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick
1543 French troops invade Luxembourg
Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV
1936 RCA shows 1st real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives, Bonwit Teller fashion show and monologue from Tobacco Road & comedy)
1939 “The Rules of the Game”, French film directed by Jean Renoir, starring Nora Gregor and Paulette Dubost, premieres in Paris
1949 “Dragnet” premieres on NBC radio; also a TV series in 1951 & 1967
1956 “Hancock’s Half Hour” premieres as a TV show starring Tony Hancock and Sid James, written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson
1975 TV soap opera “Ryan’s Hope” premieres
1977 “The Spy Who Loved Me”, 10th James Bond film starring Roger Moore and Barbara Bach, premieres in London
1980 Shawn Weatherly, of USA, crowned 29th Miss Universe
1980 Jineane Ford of Arizona replaces Shawn Weatherly (Miss Universe) as the 29th Miss USA
Today’s Historical Events in Music
1949 “Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)” opens at Broadway NYC for 76 performances
1956 Douglas Moore/John Latouche’ opera “Ballad of Baby Doe,” premieres
1965 Otis Redding records “Respect”
1967 Beatles’ “All You Need is Love” is released
1967 Doors’ “Light My Fire” hits #1
1968 Rock group “Yardbirds” disband
1986 It is reported that Boy George is being treated for heroin addiction
1988 Hungarian state funeral for composer Béla Bartók in Budapest, 42 years after his death with his remains relocated from New York
Today’s Historical Events in Sports
1868 Surrey wicket-keeper Ted Pooley completes a then-1st class cricket record 12 dismissals (8 caught, 4 stumped) in a County match against Sussex at The Oval
1887 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: 3-time runner-up Herbert Lawford wins his only Wimbledon title beating Ernest Renshaw 1-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4
1890 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Irishman Willoughby Hamilton wins his only Wimbledon title beating 7-time champion William Renshaw 6-8, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1, 6-1
1892 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Lottie Dod beats Blanche Bingley-Hillyard for a 4th time in a Wimbledon final 6-1, 6-1
1900 Boston Beaneaters pitcher Kid Nichols notches his 300th career MLB victory with an 11-4 win over Chicago Orphans
1911 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Dorothea Chambers becomes first player not to concede a game in a final beating Dora Boothby 6-0, 6-0
1912 American athlete Jim Thorpe wins 4 of 5 events to win the Pentathlon gold medal at the Stockholm Olympics, medal stripped 1913 (played pro baseball), reinstated 1982
1914 Baltimore Orioles owner Jack Dunn offers future baseball legend Babe Ruth, Ernie Shore & Ben Egan for $10k to Connie Mack (Philadelphia A’s); refuses pleading lack of finance
Pagan and Magickal Terms and Definitions
Today’s Word is
Aromatherapy
From moonlitpriestess.com
Form of alternative healing using essential oils, believed to contain the power of plants and that the medicinal properties of those plants can work through the olfactory system (sense of smell) as smell is shown to affect the conscious mind; may be used in a multitude of ways, such as candles, and incorporated into other modalities such as massage.
July 6 Astronomy Picture of the Day
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2022 July 6
Milky Way Motion in 3D from Gaia
Credit & License: ESA, Gaia, DPAC; Text: Ata Sarajedini (Florida Atlantic U., Astronomy Minute podcast)
Explanation: Our sky is alive with the streams of stars. The motions of 26 million Milky Way stars are evident in the featured map constructed from recent data taken by ESA‘s Gaia satellite. Stars colored blue are moving toward us, while red indicates away. Lines depict the motion of the stars across the sky. The large blue on the left and red areas on the map’s right give the overall impression that stars in the Milky Way are rotating around the center. However, there is a region near the middle — caused by our own Sun’s motion relative to a rigidly-rotating central Galactic bar — that seems to reverse it. Understanding details about the motion of stars is helping humanity to better understand the complex history of our Milky Way galaxy and the origin of our Sun.
July 6 Today in History
Today’s Important Historical Events
1348 Papal bull of Pope Clement VI issued during the Black Death stating Jews not to blame and urging their protection
1785 US Congress unanimously resolves the name of US currency to the “dollar” and adopts decimal coinage
1885 Louis Pasteur successfully give an anti-rabies vaccine to 9-year-old Joseph Meister, saving his life
1923 The Central Executive Committee accepts the Treaty of Union, signed in Moscow in December 1922, and the Russian Empire becomes the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
1967 Nigerian Civil War erupts as Nigerian forces invade the secessionist state of Biafra
1970 California passes 1st “no fault” divorce law
Today’s Historical Events
1016 Battle of Pontlevoy: one of largest battles of early Medieval France won by Fulk the Black and Hebert I of Maine again Odo II of Blois in the Loire Valley
1044 The Battle of Ménfő takes place in Hungary, won by a German force led by Peter Orseolo over Hungarians
1189 Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England, upon the death of King Henry II
1253 Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania
1348 Papal bull of Pope Clement VI issued during the Black Death stating Jews not to blame and urging their protection
1415 Bohemian religious reformer Jan Hus is burned at the stake in Constance, Germany
1483 Richard III is crowned King of England after deposing Edward V
1484 Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River
Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV
1933 “Nertsery Rhymes” short film starring Ted Healy and His Stooges premieres, one of the first film appearance of The Three Stooges
1945 Abbott and Costello‘s film “The Naughty Nineties” released; features longest version of their “Who’s on First?” routine
1954 KMOS TV channel 6 in Sedalia-Warrensburg, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 WENH TV channel 11 in Durham, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 Filming begins on “Ned Kelly” starring Mick Jagger
1990 “Jetsons the Movie” by Hanna-Barbera with Tiffany Darwish, premieres
1994 “Forrest Gump”, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, and Gary Sinise, is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1995)
Today’s Historical Events in Music
1946 “St Louis Woman” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 113 performances
1957 John Lennon (16) & Paul McCartney (15) meet for 1st time as Lennon’s rock group Quarrymen perform at St. Peter’s, Woolton’s Parish Church in Liverpool
1964 The Beatles’ film “Hard Day’s Night” premieres in London
1965 Rock group “Jefferson Airplane” forms
1975 Dmitri Shostakovich completes Sonate for alto opus 147
1997 “Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical” closes at Royale NYC after 109 performances
2005 Live 8 concert at Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, Scotland; performers include Wet Wet Wet, Annie Lennox, James Brown, the Corrs, and The Proclaimers
2010 Brandon Boyd announces the release of his debut solo album, “The Wild Trapeze”
Today’s Historical Events in Sports
1887 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Lottie Dod becomes youngest ever Wimbledon champion (15 years, 285 days); defending champion beats Blanche Bingley 6-2, 6-0
1889 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Blanche Bingley-Hillyard beats Lena Rice 4-6, 8-6, 6-4
1907 Tom Reece takes 5 weeks to compile the highest recorded billiards break in a match (499,135) in London, his ‘cradle’ cannon method is soon banned
1912 V Summer (Modern) Olympic Games officially open Stockholm, Sweden; events conducted prior to the ceremony dating back to 5 May
1920 New York Yankees score MLB record 14 runs in 5th inning of a 17-0 rout of Washington Senators
1923 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen of France beats Kitty McKane 6-2, 6-2 for her 5th straight Wimbledon singles title
1928 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: In an all-French final René Lacoste beats defending champion Henri Cochet 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2
1929 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Henri Cochet beats fellow Frenchman Jean Borotra 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 for his 2nd Wimbledon singles crown
July 5 Astronomy Picture of the Day
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2022 July 5
A Molten Galaxy Einstein Ring
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, S. Jha; Processing: Jonathan Lodge
Explanation: It is difficult to hide a galaxy behind a cluster of galaxies. The closer cluster’s gravity will act like a huge lens, pulling images of the distant galaxy around the sides and greatly distorting them. This is just the case observed in the featured image recently re-processed image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The cluster GAL-CLUS-022058c is composed of many galaxies and is lensing the image of a yellow-red background galaxy into arcs seen around the image center. Dubbed a molten Einstein ring for its unusual shape, four images of the same background galaxy have been identified. Typically, a foreground galaxy cluster can only create such smooth arcs if most of its mass is smoothly distributed — and therefore not concentrated in the cluster galaxies visible. Analyzing the positions of these gravitational arcs gives astronomers a method to estimate the dark matter distribution in galaxy clusters, as well as infer when the stars in these early galaxies began to form.
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