Today is Thursday, the 21st of March of 2019. It is the 80th day of the year.
There are 285 days remaining until the end of the year.
593 days until presidential elections Tuesday November 3, 2020
(1 year 7 months and 13 days from today)
The sun rises this morning at 7:11 am
and the sun sets at 7:24 pm.
Today we will have 12 hours and 13 minutes of daylight. Solar noon will be at 1:17 pm.
The first high tide was at 12:37 am
and the next high tide at 12:36 pm.
The first low tide will be at 6:14 am
and the final low tide at 6:34 pm.
The Moon is 99.6% visible; now a waning gibbous moon.
Last Quarter Moon in 6 days on Wednesday, the 27th of March of 2019 at 9:10 pm
New Moon in 15 days on a Friday, the 5th of April of 2019 at 1:50 am
First Quarter Moon in 22 days, also a Friday, the 12th of April of 2019 at 12:06 pm
and the next Full Moon in 28 days, Friday19th of April of 2019 at 4:12 am
Today is …
Absolutely Incredible Kid Day®
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
National California Strawberry Day
National Day of Action on Syringe Exchange
Today is also….
Birth of Benito Juárez, a Fiestas Patrias in Mexico
Human Rights Day in South Africa
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Namibia from South African mandate in 1990
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Mother's Day in most of the Arab world
National Tree Planting Day in Lesotho
Newroz in Iran, Kurdistan, Mesopotamia
Truant's Day in Poland, Faroe Islands
On this day in Women’s Herstory:
March 21, 1986 – Debi Thomas becomes the first African-American woman to win the World Figure Skating Championship.
Born on this Day in 1897: Martha Foley, created magazine “Story” in 1932 with her husband Whit Burnett, edited the annual “The Best American Short Stories” (1941-77) including entries by Eudora Welty, Joyce Carol Oates, and John Updike She died in 1977.
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
1685 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German Baroque composer and musician (d. 1750)
1806 – Benito Juárez, Mexican lawyer and politician, 25th President of Mexico (d. 1872)
1839 – Modest Mussorgsky, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1881)
1902 – Son House, American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1988)
1906 – John D. Rockefeller III, American philanthropist (d. 1978)
1910 – Julio Gallo, American businessman, co-founded E & J Gallo Winery (d. 1993)
1916 – Bismillah Khan, Indian shehnai player (d. 2006)
1922 – Russ Meyer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1930 – James Coco, American actor (d. 1987)
1930 – Otis Spann, American blues pianist, singer and composer (d. 1970)
1936 – Ed Broadbent, Canadian pilot and politician
1940 – Solomon Burke, American singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
1944 – David Lindley, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1949 – Eddie Money, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1949 – Slavoj Žižek, Slovenian sociologist, philosopher, and academic
1958 – Gary Oldman, English actor, filmmaker, musician and author
1962 – Matthew Broderick, American actor
1962 – Rosie O'Donnell, American actress, producer, and talk show host
1970 – Cenk Uygur, Turkish-American political activist
…and on this day in history…
1844 – The Bahá'í calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Bahá'í calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Bahá'í Faith as the Bahá'í New Year or Náw-Rúz.
1871 – Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
1925 – The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.
1928 – Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
1935 – Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran.
1946 – The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the American football since 1933.
1952 – Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
1960 – Apartheid: Sharpeville massacre, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
1963 – Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary (in California) closes.
1965 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama
1970 – The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco.
1980 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet–Afghan War.
1986 – Debi Thomas became the first African American to win the World Figure Skating Championships
1990 – Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
1994 – The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change enters into force.
1999 – Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
2006 – The social media site Twitter is founded.
2009 – Four police officers are shot and killed and a fifth is wounded in two shootings at Oakland, California.