Today is Wednesday, the 11th of March of 2026
March 11 is the 70th day of the year
295 days remain until the end of the year.
9 days until spring begins
Sunrise in San Francisco at 7:26:11 am
and sunset will be at 7:14:16 pm
We will have 11 hours and 48 minutes of daylight
Water temperature in San Francisco Bay today is 58.8°F
The solar transit will be at 1:20:13 pm
The first high tide was at 4:23 am at 5.13 feet
The rist low tide will be at 12:21 pm at 0.69 feet
The next high tide at 8:25 pm at 4.01
and the final low tide in the next 24 hours will be early tomorrow morning at 12:17 am at 3.5 feet
The Moon is currently 49% visible
It was the Third Quarter moon earlier this morning
It's now a Waning Crescent moon
We'll have a New Moon in 7 days next Wednesday the 18th of March of 2026 at 6:23 pm
Today is....
Funeral Director And Morticiain Recognition Day
Debunking Day
Dream Day
Johnny Appleseed Day
National "Eat Your Noodles" Day
National 311 Day
National Promposal Day
No Smoking Day (UK)
Oatmeal Nut Waffles Day
Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Day
World Day of Muslim Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Film
World Plumbing Day
Worship of Tools Day
Today is also...
Day of Restoration of Independence from the Soviet Union in 1990 in Lithuania
Moshoeshoe Day in Lesotho
Saudi Flag Day in Saudi Arabia
On this day in women's herstory....
2006 – Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as the first female president of Chile.
1708 – Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your special day with these figures in Women's Herstory....
1903 – Dorothy Schiff, first female newspaper publisher in New York (tabloid New York Post), supported FDR, credited with Nelson Rockefeller’s victory as New York Governor, sold the Post for estimated $30 million to Rupert Murdock in 1976 who soon turned it into aggressive conservatism (d. 1989)
1904 – Hilde Bruch, escaped from Nazi Germany in 1933 to England and then America, her pioneer work made her the leading expert in eating disorders, especially anorexia nervosa (d. 1984)
1921 – Charlotte Friend, as a microbiologist in the 1950s at Sloan-Kettering Institute discovered a link between defective maturation and tumor growth in mice, discoveries that were critical in establishing the role of viruses in some cancers (d. 1987)
1278 – Mary of Woodstock, daughter of Edward I of England (died c. 1332)
1815 – Anna Bochkoltz, German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer (died 1879)
1893 – Wanda Gág, American author and illustrator (died 1946)
1898 – Dorothy Gish, American actress (died 1968)
1907 – Jessie Matthews, English actress, singer, and dancer (died 1981)
1923 – Louise Brough, American tennis player (died 2014)
1925 – Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, American biochemist and academic (died 1983)
1927 – Freda Meissner-Blau, Austrian activist and politician (died 2015)
1941 – Shelly Zegart, quilt historian (died 2025)
1950 – Katia Labèque, French concert pianist, chiefly as a duo with her younger sister, Marielle, born in Bayonne, France
1951 – Katie Kissoon [Farthing], Trinidadian-British pop singer ("Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep"), and session and touring backing vocalist (Van Morrison; Eric Clapton; Roger Water; Mark Knopfler), born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
1951 – Dominique Sanda, French model and actress
1954 – Gale Norton, American politician, 48th United States Secretary of the Interior
1955 – Leslie Cliff, Canadian swimmer
1955 – Catharina "Nina" Hagen, German punk rock singer, and actress (The Go-Blue Girl), born in East Berlin, East Germany
1956 – Helen Rollason, English sports journalist and sportscaster (died 1999)
1957 – Cheryl Lynn, American disco and R&B singer-songwriter ("Got To Be Real"; "Every Time I Try to Say Goodbye"), born in Los Angeles, California
1958 – Anissa Jones, American child actress (died 1976)[119]
1959 – Nina Hartley, American pornographic actress/director, sex educator, sex-positive feminist, and author
1964 – Julia Gomelskaya, Ukrainian composer, born in Sartov, USSR (d. 2016)
1965 – Jenny Packham, English fashion designer
1968 – Lisa Loeb, American Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter ("Stay (I Missed You)"), born in Bethesda, Maryland
1969 – Soraya [Lamilla], Colombian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, arranger and record producer ("Amor En Tus Ojos / Love In Your Eyes"'; "Casi"), born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey (d. 2006)
1977 – Becky Hammon, American-Russian basketball player and coach
1981 – LeToya Luckett, American R&B and pop singer (Destiny's Child, 1997-2000 - "Bills, Bills, Bills"), and actress, born in Houston, Texas
1981 – LeToya Luckett, American R&B and pop singer (Destiny's Child, 1997-2000 - "Bills, Bills, Bills"), and actress, born in Houston, Texas
1985 – Cassandra Fairbanks, American journalist and activist
1990 – Ayumi Morita, Japanese tennis player
1993 – Jodie Comer, English actress
