Today is Tuesday, the 30th of March, 2021
March 30 is the 89th day of the year
276 days remain until the end of the year.
The sun rises at 6:56 am
and sunset will be at 7:33 pm.
Today we will have 12 hours and 37 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 1:14 pm.
The first high tide was at 1:12 am
The first low tide will be at 7:16 am
The next high tide at 1:54 pm.
and the final low tide at Ocean Beach will be at 7:18 pm.
The Moon will be 95.4% visible
Last Quarter Moon in 5 days on Sunday the 4th of April of 2021 at 3:02 am
Today is…
Grass is Always Browner on the Other Side of the Fence Day
Today is also…
Spiritual Baptist/Shouter Liberation Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
School Day of Non-violence and Peace (Spain)
MARCH 30: TODAY'S INSPIRING WOMEN
MARY ELIZABETH BOWSER
Mary Elizabeth Bowser was born today in 1839. A former slave, Bowser served as a undercover agent for Ulysses S. Grant by working as a servant in the home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. With the racial prejudice of the day, the assumption that slaves were illiterate and not intelligent, and the way slave servants were trained to seem invisible, Mary was able to glean considerable military intelligence by simply doing her job.
March 30, 1855 (d.1937) – Charlotte Johnson Baker, the first woman physician to practice medicine in San Diego, California, practiced obstetrics and gynecology at St. Joseph’s Hospital
1964 – Tracy Chapman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Also on this day in history…
1842 – Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.
1959 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.; three others are wounded in the same incident.
and if today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this special day with…
1135 – Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (April 6 also proposed, d. 1204)
1746 – Francisco Goya, Spanish-French painter and sculptor (d. 1828)
1820 – Anna Sewell, English author (d. 1878)
1853 – Vincent van Gogh, Dutch-French painter and illustrator (d. 1890)
1863 – Mary Calkins, American philosopher and psychologist (d. 1930)
1864 – Franz Oppenheimer, German-American sociologist and economist (d. 1943)
1880 – Seán O'Casey, Irish dramatist, playwright, and memoirist (d. 1964)
1882 – Melanie Klein, Jewish Austrian-English psychologist and author (d. 1960)
1913 – Richard Helms, American soldier and diplomat, 8th Director of Central Intelligence (d. 2002)
1913 – Frankie Laine, American singer-songwriter (d. 2007)
1914 – Sonny Boy Williamson I, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (d. 1948)
1919 – McGeorge Bundy, American intelligence officer and diplomat, 6th United States National Security Advisor (d. 1996)
1930 – John Astin, American actor
1930 – Rolf Harris, Australian singer-songwriter
1937 – Warren Beatty, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1945 – Eric Clapton, English guitarist and singer-songwriter
1949 – Dana Gillespie, English singer-songwriter and actress
1949 – Naomi Sims, American model and author (d. 2009)
1950 – Janet Browne, English-American historian and academic
1950 – Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor
1957 – Marie-Christine Koundja, Chadian author and diplomat
1959 – Martina Cole, English television host and author
1960 – Laurie Graham, Canadian skier
1962 – MC Hammer, American rapper and actor
1964 – Tracy Chapman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1965 – Piers Morgan, English journalist and talk show host
1968 – Celine Dion, Canadian singer-songwriter