Today is Wednesday, the 9th of March of 2022
March 9 is the 68th day of the year
297 days remain until the end of the year.
10 days until spring begins
The sun rose in San Francisco at 6:29:12 am
and sunset will be at 6:12:20 pm.
We will have 11 hours and 43 minutes of daylight today
Solar noon will be at 12:20:46 pm.
The first high tide will be at 2:37 am at 5.30 feet
The first low tide will be at 10:10 am at 0.81 feet
The next high tide at 5:40 pm at 3.83 feet
and the final low tide tonight at Ocean Beach will be at 9:44 pm at 3.23 feet
The Moon is currently --% visible
It’s a Waxing Crescent moon
We’ll have the First Quarter Moon tomorrow Thursday the 10th of March of 2022 at 2:45 am
Today is…
Discover What Your Name Means Day
Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Day
Today is also…
Teachers' Day or Eid Al Moalim in Lebanon
On this day in Women’s Herstory…
March 9, 1959 – The first Barbie doll debuts. The fashion toy has become a symbol of both female empowerment and unrealistic beauty standards.
Women’s Herstory birthdays today include… Sue Lee, a labor organizer in San Francisco, was born today in 1910. She led the 15-week strike against National Dollar Stores garment factory for better wages and working conditions.
Graciela Olivárez, Chicana activist, was born today in 1928. She was the first woman and first Latina graduate from Notre Dame Law School, and one of first two women on the board of Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
1892 – Vita Sackville-West, English author, poet, and gardener (d. 1962)
1911 – Clara Rockmore, American classical violin prodigy and theremin player, (d. 1998)
1934 – Joyce Van Patten, American actress
1946 – Alexandra Bastedo, English actress (d. 2014)
1947 – Keri Hulme, New Zealand author and poet
1948 – Emma Bonino, Italian politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1951 – Helen Zille, South African journalist, politician and Premier of the Western Cape
1958 – Linda Fiorentino, American actress
1964 – Juliette Binoche, French actress
1969 – Kimberly Guilfoyle, American lawyer and journalist
1982 – Mirjana Lučić-Baroni, Croatian tennis player
1984 – Julia Mancuso, American skier
1986 – Brittany Snow, American actress and producer
1989 – Taeyeon, South Korean artist
Also on this day in history…
1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg
1776 – The Wealth of Nations by Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith is published.
1796 – Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
1815 – Francis Ronalds describes the first battery-operated clock in the Philosophical Magazine.
1841 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.
1842 – Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera composers.
1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
1954 – McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
1997 – Comet Hale–Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day.
Also born on this day…
1451 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian cartographer and explorer (d. 1512)
1814 – Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet and playwright (d. 1861)
1824 – Amasa Leland Stanford, American businessman and politician, founded Stanford University (d. 1893)
1890 – Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician and diplomat, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1986)
1891 – José P. Laurel, Filipino lawyer, politician and President of the Philippines (d. 1959)
1902 – Will Geer, American actor (d. 1978)
1910 – Samuel Barber, American pianist and composer (d. 1981)
1918 – Mickey Spillane, American crime novelist (d. 2006)
1926 – Joe Franklin, American radio and television host (d. 2015)
1930 – Ornette Coleman, American saxophonist, violinist, trumpet player, and composer (d. 2015)
1934 – Yuri Gagarin, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1968)
1936 – Mickey Gilley, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1940 – Raul Julia, Puerto Rican-American actor (d. 1994)
1942 – John Cale, Welsh musician, composer, singer, songwriter and record producer
1943 – Bobby Fischer, American chess player and author (d. 2008)
1945 – Robin Trower, English rock guitarist and vocalist
1948 – Jeffrey Osborne, American singer and drummer
1954 – Bobby Sands, PIRA volunteer; Irish republican politician (d. 1981)
1979 – Oscar Isaac, Guatemalan-American actor