Today is Tuesday, the 20th of March of 2018.
It is the First Day of spring
Spring Equinox 2018 in Northern Hemisphere will be at 9:15 AM Pacific Time today...
There are 286 days remaining until the end of the year.
231 days until mid-term elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018
(7 months and 17 days from today)
959 days until presidential elections Tuesday November 3, 2020
(2 years 7 months and 14 days from today)
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 7:12 am
and sunset will be at 7:23 pm.
Today we will have 12 hours and 11 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 1:17 pm.
The first high tide was at 2:02 am
and the next high tide will be at 2:39 pm.
The first low tide will be at 8:02 am
and the next low tide at 8:05 pm.
The Moon is currently 9.9% visible; a Waxing Crescent moon
Moon Direction:↑ 23.85° NNE
Moon Altitude:-41.21°
Moon Distance:235312 mi
Next Full Moon: Mar 31, 20185:36 am
Next New Moon: Apr 15, 20186:57 pm
Next Moonrise: Today at 9:19 am
First Quarter Moon in 4 days on Saturday the 24th of March of 2018 at 8:35 am
Full Moon on Saturday the 31th of March of 2018 at 5:37 am
Last Quarter Moon in 19 days Sunday the 8th of April of 2018 at 12:18 am
New Moon in 26 days Sunday the 15th of April of 2018 at 6:57 pm
Today is…
Atheist Pride Day
Bibliomania Day
French language day
Great American Meat-out Day
International Astrology Day
International Day of Happiness
International Earth Day
National Agriculture Day
National Bock Beer Day
National Jump Out! Day
National Kiss Your Fiancé Day
National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
National Ravioli Day
Proposal Day!
Snowman Burning Day
Won't You Be My Neighbor Day
(Mister Fred Rogers born on this day)
World Day of Theater for Children and Young People
World Social Work Day
World Sparrow Day
World Storytelling Day
It’s also…
Bahá'í Naw-Rúz, started at sunset on March 20. The end of the 19-day sunrise-to-sunset fast. (Bahá'í Faith)
Nowruz (Persian, Gilaki, Kurdish, Zoroastrians, and other Iranian people and countries with an Iranian influence)
Ostara in the northern hemisphere, Mabon in the southern hemisphere. (Neo-Druidic Wheel of the Year)
Vernal Equinox Day/Kōreisai (Japan)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Tunisia from France in 1956.
On this day in Women’s History…
March 20, 1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published and becomes the best-selling book of the 19th century
1985 – Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
born on this day…
1900 – Amelia Chopitea Villa, Bolivia's first female physician (d. 1942
1915 – Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1973)
1918 – Marian McPartland, English-American pianist and composer (d. 2013)
March 20, 1920 (d. 1997) – Pamela Harriman, devoted herself to Democratic Party politics and fund raising after death of husband Averell, first woman to be named Ambassador to France (1993) where she used her social skills to be a facilitator and build good relationships with the media and local power structure
March 20, 1925 (d. 2018) – Romana Acosta Bañuelos, the thirty-fourth Treasurer of the United States, where she served from 1971 to 1974 as the first Hispanic in that role, owner of a multimillion-dollar business, Ramona’s Mexican Food Products, Inc.
1944 – Camille Cosby, American author, producer, and philanthropist
1949 – Marcia Ball, American blues singer-songwriter and pianist
1937 – Lois Lowry, American author
1958 – Holly Hunter, American actress and producer
1959 – Mary Roach, American author
1961 – Sara Wheeler, English author and journalist
1963 – Kathy Ireland, American model, actress, and furniture designer
1963 – Yelena Romanova, Russian runner (d. 2007)
1964 – Natacha Atlas, Belgian singer-songwriter
it’s also the birthday of…
Births[edit]
43 BC – Ovid, Roman poet (d. 17)
1469 – Cecily of York (d. 1507)
1612 – Anne Bradstreet, Puritan American poet (d. 1672)
1828 – Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian poet, playwright, and director (d. 1906)
1888 – Amanda Clement, American baseball player, umpire, and educator (d. 1971)
1894 – Amalie Sara Colquhoun, Australian landscape and portrait painter (d. 1974)
1904 – B. F. Skinner, American psychologist and author (d. 1990)
1906 – Ozzie Nelson, American actor and bandleader (d. 1975)
1908 – Michael Redgrave, English actor and director (d. 1985)
1915 – Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist and composer (d. 1997)
1917 – Vera Lynn, English singer
1920 – Rosemary Timperley, English author and screenwriter (d. 1988)
1922 – Ray Goulding, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1990)
1922 – Carl Reiner, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1923 – Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani journalist, author, and activist (d. 2006)
1925 – John Ehrlichman, American lawyer, 12th White House Counsel (d. 1999)
1928 – Fred Rogers, American television host and producer (d. 2003)
1931 – Hal Linden, American actor, singer, and director
1934 – Willie Brown, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 41st Mayor of San Francisco
1934 – David Malouf, Australian author and playwright
1935 – Ted Bessell, American actor and director (d. 1996)
1935 – Bettye Washington Greene, American chemist (d. 1995)
1936 – Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican singer, songwriter, music producer, and inventor
1937 – Lois Lowry, American author
1937 – Jerry Reed, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 2008)
1939 – Brian Mulroney, Canadian lawyer and politician 18th Prime Minister of Canada
1955 – Nina Kiriki Hoffman, American author
1956 – Catherine Ashton, English politician, Vice-President of the European Commission
1956 – Anne Donahue, American lawyer and politician
1957 – Vanessa Bell Calloway, American actress
1957 – Spike Lee, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1957 – Theresa Russell, American actress
1957 – Chris Wedge, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor
1965 – William Dalrymple, Scottish historian and author
1969 – Yvette Cooper, English economist and politician, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
1970 – Michael Rapaport, American actor, podcast host, and director
1972 – Cristel Vahtra, Estonian skier
1973 – Natalya Khrushcheleva, Russian runner
also on this day in history…
235 – Maximinus Thrax is proclaimed emperor.
1602 – The Dutch East India Company is established.
1616 – Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
1760 – The Great Boston Fire of 1760 destroys 349 buildings.
1815 – After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
1848 – German revolutions of 1848–49: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.
1854 – The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
1888 – The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
1915 – Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
1923 – The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States.
1942 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".
1948 – With a Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini, are given on CBS and NBC.
1985 – Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
1987 – The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.
1990 – Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.
1995 – The Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo carries out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, killing 12 and wounding over 1,300 people.
1999 – Legoland California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California.
2000 – Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after murdering Georgia sheriff's deputy Ricky Kinchen and critically wounding Deputy Aldranon English.
2003 – Invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries (the UK, Australia and Poland) begin military operations in Iraq