Good morning. This website is a demonstration of smart content rendering. The content updates continuously without the help of Internet monkeys. All the information was current at the time you arrived here. Today is Friday, the 10th day of July and the 190th day of 2026. Most of the United States is under Daylight Saving Time (DST) at the moment. It will end on November 1st at 2:00 AM when clocks "fall back" one hour. While many countries observe DST, the beginning and ending times vary, as with the Sun as we see it, of course.
On the Jewish calendar, today is the 25th day of Tammuz in the year 5786.
We are under a waning crescent moon. At the time you accessed this page, its exact age was 25 days, 16 hours, and 9 minutes. We will be under a new moon again on Tuesday, July 14th at 8:27 AM. The next full moon will occur on Wednesday, July 29th at 2:49 AM. For now, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter are visible in the night sky. Mercury can be seen in the eastern sky just before dawn. Looking into the night sky, far beyond our Lunar and Solar System neighbors, we see that we are under the constellation of Cancer.
For today, our sunrise and sunset times (at -96.852/32.847) are
6:22 AM
and
8:26 PM,
giving us 14 hours and 4 minutes of daylight.
On this day in 1938, Howard Hughes set a new record by completing a 91-hour airplane flight around the world.
Today we celebrate the birthdays of John Calvin (1509), Camille Pissarro (1830), James A. McNeill Whistler (1834), Nikola Tesla (1856), Marcel Proust (1871), Mary McLeod Bethune (1875), Ima Hogg (1882), David Brinkley (1920), Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921), Jake LaMotta (1921), Fred Gwynne (1926), William Smithers (1927), Arthur Ashe (1943), Ron Glass (1945), Arlo Guthrie (1947), Jessica Simpson (1980), and Ian Nicholas (1980).
Today in History: Happy Birthday, Miss Ima
Houston Symphony founder Ima Hogg was born on this day in 1882 in Mineola, Texas. Ima moved with her family to Austin in 1886 when her father was elected Attorney General and then Governor (1891-1895). After the relatively early deaths of her parents, Ima and her siblings were left with substantial wealth, primarily from the many oil wells on the vast acreage owned by the Hogg family. Ima spent her entire life working with numerous philanthropic entities.
At the time of her death at 93, Ms. Hogg had employed her personal maid, Gertrude Vaughn, for 56 years, and her butler-chauffeur, Lucious Broadnas, for over 40 years. Hogg's work lives on through the Ima Hogg Foundation, which she founded in 1964 and which was the major beneficiary of her will. Hogg never married; her biographer Virginia Bernhard reports that she told a friend she had gotten over 30 proposals of marriage but "wouldn't have any of them."
In 1963, former Governor of Texas Allan Shivers--when presenting Hogg with the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the University of Texas Ex-Students Association (the first woman so honored)--said of Miss Ima: Some persons create history; Some record it; Others restore and conserve it; She has done all three.
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter--for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.
Nikola Tesla, born on this day in
1856 in Smiljan, Austrian Empire
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