[ greyweed ] -- and the bored shall inherit the earth...

JULY 6
187th day of the year (188th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar,
with 178 days remaining.

For those in a hurry to get old, I suggest you reanalyze your lives and slow things down, while you can still afford the luxury to do so. And to those who are enjoying their age -and acting like little kids- I envy you.

I turn a year older na naman.
YEeeCh! I miss those days when turning a year old was exciting and you can't wait for your birthday. Now it seems, I dread the arrival of July.

ANG TANDA KO NA!

OTHER BIRTHDAYS

• 1907 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
• 1946 - George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
• 1946 - Sylvester Stallone, American actor
• 1951 - Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor
• 1975 - 50 Cent, American rapper

EVENTS

• 1785 - The dollar is unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States.
• 1957 - John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles meet for the first time at the Woolton Parish Church Garden Fete, Liverpool.
• 1964 - "A Hard Day's Night", the first Beatles film, premieres.
• 1977 - Pink Floyd's Roger Waters spits on a fan during the In The Flesh tour in Montreal.
• 2005 - Bob Geldof and Bono meet with the G8 in Gleneagles to discuss increasing aid to Africa. Afterwards, both make appearances at the Edinburgh 50,000 concert, a last concert in the Live 8 series.

• The Vulcan Eclipse (JULY 6, 1982)- The Earth's shadow begins to leave the moon, as sunlight creeps slowly back on to one limb at the lower left after the end of totality during the lunar eclipse of July 6, 1982.
  Although no direct sunlight hits the moon during the total phase of a total lunar eclipse, the moon is visible from sunlight refracted through the Earth's atmosphere during the eclipse. The moon gets its burnt orange color from scattering of blue light from the sun's spectrum in the atmosphere, the same reason the sun appears red at sunset, and the sky is blue. This particular total lunar eclipse was called the "Vulcan Eclipse" because of the tremendous amount of material in the Earth's atmosphere from the El Chichon volcano which had erupted in Mexico a couple of months earlier. Because of this volcanic material in the atmosphere, the bulk of which was in the stratosphere some 16 miles high, the amount of sunlight refracted during totality was diminished, and observers recorded this eclipse as one of the darkest on record.