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Almanac - Tuesday April 1, 2025

Tarot card, "The Fool," produced in 1916
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Tarot card, "The Fool," produced in 1916

Today is Tuesday, the 1st of April of 2025

April 1 is the 91st day of the year

274 days remain until the end of the year.

80 days until summer begins

The sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:54:00 am

and sunset will be at 7:33:59 pm.

We will have 12 hours and 39 minutes of daylight

The solar transit will be at 1:13:59 pm.

Water temperature in Aquatic Park today is 57°F.

The first high tide will be at 12:55 am at 6.53 feet

The first low tide will be at 7:49 am at -0.95 feet

The next high tide at 2:40 pm at 4.68 feet

and the final low tide at Ocean Beach will be the evening at 7:32 pm at 2.33 feet

The Moon is currently 13.4% visible

It’s a Waxing Crescent moon

We’ll have the First Quarter Moon in 3 days Friday the 4th of April of 2025 at 7:15 pm

Today is….

April Fools' Day

Edible Book Day

Fossil Fools Day

International Edible Book Festival

International Fun at Work Day

National Soylent Green Day

National Tom Foolerys Day

St. Stupid's Day

Assyrian New Year

Boomer Bonus Day

International Tatting Day

Lupus Alert Day

National Atheist's Day

National Jump in Muddy Puddles Day

National Love for our Children Day

National One Cent Day

National Sourdough Bread Day

National Trombone Players Day

Poetry and the Creative Mind Day

Reading is Funny Day

SAAM Day of Action, or Sexual Assault Awareness Month Day of Action

Sorry Charlie Day

US Air Force Academy Day

Today is also….

Odisha Day in Odisha, India

Arbor Day in Tanzania

Civil Service Day in Thailand

Cyprus National Day in Cyprus

Kha b-Nisan, the Assyrian New Year for the Assyrian people

If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your special day with…

1815Otto von Bismarck, German lawyer and politician, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (d. 1898)

1873Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1943)

1883Lon Chaney, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1930)

1885Wallace Beery, American actor (d. 1949)

1885 – Clementine Churchill, English wife of Winston Churchill (d. 1977)

1895Alberta Hunter, African-American singer-songwriter and nurse (d. 1984)

1901Whittaker Chambers, American journalist and spy (d. 1961)

1920Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (d. 1997)

1926Anne McCaffrey, American-Irish author (d. 2011)

1927 – Amos Milburn, American R&B singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1980)

1929 – Milan Kundera, Czech-French novelist, poet, and playwright (d. 2023)

1932Debbie Reynolds, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2016)

1934Vladimir Posner, French-American journalist and radio host

1939Ali MacGraw, American model and actress

1940Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)

1942Samuel R. Delany, American author and critic

1942 – Richard D. Wolff, American economist and academic

1949 – Gil Scott-Heron, American singer-songwriter and author (d. 2011)

1950Samuel Alito, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

1961Susan Boyle, Scottish singer

1965Jane Adams, American film, television, and stage actress

1973 – Rachel Maddow, American journalist and author

1982Taran Killam, American actor, voice artist, comedian, and writer

….and on this day in the history….

1970 – President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law.

1976Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Computer, Inc.

1997Comet Hale–Bopp is seen passing at perihelion.

1999Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.

2001 – Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.

2004Google launches its Email service Gmail.

Kevin Vance created a program of folk music for KALW, A Patchwork Quilt, in October 1991. He grew up in Berkeley during the 1960s and '70s and spent his years learning in public schools, community colleges, bookstores, libraries, and non-commercial radio stations, as well as from the people around him. When he's not on the radio, then he's selling books, taking care of his family, listening to music, entering stuff into a computer, or taking a class.