Today is Wednesday, the 28th of March of 2018.
It is the 87th day of the year.
There are 278 days remaining until the end of the year.
85 days until summer begins...
223 days until mid-term elections Tuesday November 6, 2018
(7 months and 9 days from today)
951 days until presidential elections Tuesday November 3, 2020
(2 years 7 months and 6 days from today)
The sun rises at 7:00 am
and sunset will be at 7:30 pm.
Today we will have 12 hours and 30 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 1:15 pm.
The first low tide was at 3:40 am
and the next low tide will be at 4:09 pm.
The first high tide will be at 9:44 am
and the next high tide at 11:05 pm.
The Moon is 88.7% visible; a Waxing Gibbous
Moon Direction: ↑ 278.52° W
Moon Altitude: 9.90°
Moon Distance: 230079 mi
Next Full Moon: Saturday March 31, 2018 at 5:36 am
Next New Moon: Sunday April 15, 2018 at 6:57 pm
Next Moonset: Today at 5:32 am
A full Worm Moon:
At the time of this spring Moon, the ground begins to soften and earthworm casts reappear, inviting the return of robins. This is also known as the Sap Moon, as it marks the time when maple sap begins to flow and the annual tapping of maple trees begins.
Today is…
National Black Forest Cake Day
National Something On a Stick Day
It’s also…
Commemoration of Sen no Rikyū (Schools of Japanese tea ceremony)
Serfs Emancipation Day in Tibet
Teachers' Day in Czech Republic and Slovakia
In Women’s history…
March 28, 1982 – First NCAA women’s college basketball national championship game: Louisiana Tech vs. Cheyney 76-62. (Before it was the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women.)
Born on this day March 28, 1886 (d. 1982) – Clara Lemlich, Jewish immigrant from the Ukraine, labor activist, suffragist, and consumer advocate, a leader of the Uprising of 20,000, a labor strike of shirtwaist workers in New York’s garment industry in 1909.
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
1868 – Maxim Gorky, Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright (d. 1936)
1890 – Paul Whiteman, American violinist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1967)
1905 – Marlin Perkins, American zoologist and television host (d. 1986)
1909 – Nelson Algren, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1981)
1914 – Edmund Muskie, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 58th United States Secretary of State (d. 1996)
1928 – Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-American political activist and analyst; 10th United States National Security Advisor (d. 2017)
1936 – Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian novelist, playwright, and essayist Nobel Prize laureate
1941 – Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, American author and academic
1955 – Reba McEntire, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1959 – Laura Chinchilla, Costa Rican politician, President of Costa Rica
1968 – Iris Chang, Chinese-American journalist and author (d. 2004)
1986 – Lady Gaga, American singer-songwriter, dancer, producer, and actress
also on this day in history…
1797 -- Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patented a washing machine. | |
1834 -- The U.S. Senate voted to censure President Andrew Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States. | |
1854 -- Britain and France declared war on Russia during the Crimean War. 1910 – Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France. | |
1930 -- The names of the Turkish cities of Constantinople and Angora were changed to Istanbul and Ankara, respectively. | |
1939 -- The Spanish Civil War ended as Madrid fell to the forces of Francisco Franco. | |
1941 -- Novelist and critic Virginia Woolf drowned herself near her home in England at age 59. | |
1963 -- The Alfred Hitchcock film "The Birds" premiered in New York. | |
1979 – A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown 1990 – United States President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal. | |
2001 -- President George W. Bush publicly rejected the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate, a pact never ratified by the Senate. |