• Canada Day.

    Canada Day (French: Fête du Canada) is the national day of Canada. A federal statutory holiday, it celebrates the anniversary of July 1, 1867, the effective date of the Constitution Act, 1867 (then called the British North America Act, […]

  • Independence Day (USA)

    Independence Day is a U.S. federal holiday commemorating the Declaration of Independence of the United States, on July 4, 1776.

  • Earth at Aphelion

    Earth will be at the farthest point in its orbit around the Sun on this date

  • Mercury 3.2°S of Moon

    Mercury will appear close to the crescent Moon in the west-northwestern sky before sunset.

  • Thomas Kuhn born 1922

    Thomas Samuel Kuhn (1922–1996) is one of the most influential philosophers of science of the twentieth century,

  • J. G. Mendel born 1822

    Gregor Johann Mendel (1822– 1884) was a biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brünn (Brno), Margraviate of Moravia.

  • St. Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Jesuits.

    Ignatius of Loyola (Basque: Ignazio Loiolakoa; Spanish: Ignacio de Loyola; Latin: Ignatius de Loyola; c.  23 October 1491 – 31 July 1556) was a Spanish Basque Catholic priest and theologian, who co-founded the religious order called the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and became its first Superior General at […]