Today Wednesday, the 21st of March of 2018, is the 80th day of the year. There are 285 days remaining until the end of the year. 92 days until summer begins... 230 days until mid-term elections Tuesday November 6, 2018 (7 months and 16 days from today) 958 days until presidential election Tuesday November 3, 2020 ( 2 years 7 months and 13 days from today) The sun rises at 7:10 am and sunset will be at 7:24 pm. We will have 12 hours and 14 minutes of daylight. Solar noon will be at 1:17 pm. The first high was at 2:37 am and the next high tide at 3:39 pm. The first low tide will be at 8:51 am and the next low tide at 8:48 pm. The Moon is 17.3% visible; a Waxing Crescent Moon Direction: ↑ 4.23° N Moon Altitude: -40.12° Moon Distance: 233690 mi Next Full Moon:Saturday March 31, 2018 at 5:36 am Next New Moon:Sunday April 15, 2018 at 6:57 pm Next Moonrise: Today at 9:57 am Today is… International Day for the Elimination of Racial DiscriminationInternational Day of ForestsKick Butts DayMemory DayNational California Strawberry DayNational Common Courtesy DayNational Day of Action on Syringe ExchangeNational Flower DayNational Fragrance DayNational French Bread DayNational Single Parent's DayNational Teenager DayWorld Down Syndrome DayWorld Poetry DayWorld Puppetry DayIt’s also… Emancipation Day or Día de la Abolición de la Esclavitud in Puerto Rico 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 Mother's Day in most of the Arab world National Tree Planting Day in Lesotho Truant's Day in Poland, Faroe Islands On this day in Women’s History… 1638 – Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent. 1872 – Illinois becomes the first state to require gender equality in employment. 1972 – In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives. 1986 – Debi Thomas becomes the first African-American woman to win the World Figure Skating Championship. 1997 – Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and 9 months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion. Born on this day… 1519 – Catherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk, English noblewoman (d. 1580) 1615 – Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh, British scientist (d. 1691) 1855 – Dorothy Tennant, British painter (d. 1926)
1884 – Lyda Borelli, Italian actress (d. 1959) 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. (d.1977) 1899 – Ruth Page, American ballerina and choreographer (d. 1991) 1901 – Greta Kempton, Austrian-American painter (d. 1991) 1902 – Madeleine Milhaud, French actress and composer (d. 2008)
1909 – Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author and educator (d. 1983) 1912 – Agnes Martin, Canadian-American painter and educator (d. 2004) 1917 – Virginia Grey, American actress (d. 2004) 1920 – Fanny Waterman, English pianist and educator, founded the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition 1928 – Carrie Donovan, American journalist (d. 2001) 1934 – May Britt, Swedish actress 1934 – Sheila Cameron, English lawyer and judg 1946 – Rivka Golani, Israeli viola player and composer 1949 – Fanny Ardant, French actress, director, and screenwriter 1955 – Lena Olin, Swedish actress 1957 – Stephanie Mills, American actress and singer 1963 – Deborah Bull, English ballerina 1963 – Susan Ann Sulley, English pop singer (The Human League) Also On this date: On March 21, 1965, more than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began their march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. On March 21, 1867, Florenz Ziegfeld, the theater producer who became known for glorifying American women, was born. In 1925, Tennessee Gov. Austin Peay (pee) signed the Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of the Theory of Evolution in public schools. (Tennessee repealed the law in 1967.) In 1935, Persia officially changed its name to Iran. In 1946, the recently created United Nations Security Council set up temporary headquarters at Hunter College in the Bronx, New York. In 1952, the Moondog Coronation Ball, considered the first rock and roll concert, took place at Cleveland Arena. In 1963, the Alcatraz federal prison island in San Francisco Bay was emptied of its last inmates and closed at the order of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. In 1972, the Supreme Court, in Dunn v. Blumstein, ruled that states may not require at least a year's residency for voting eligibility. In 1981, Michael Donald, a black teenager in Mobile, Alabama, was abducted, tortured and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan. (A lawsuit brought by Donald's mother, Beulah Mae Donald, later resulted in a landmark judgment that bankrupted one Klan organization.) In 1990, Namibia became an independent nation as the former colony marked the end of 75 years of South African rule. In 2006, the social media website Twitter was established with the sending of the first "tweet" by co-founder Jack Dorsey, who wrote: "just setting up my twttr." Ten years ago: Officials admitted that at least four State Department workers had pried into the supposedly secure passport files of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain, prompting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to personally apologize to the presidential contenders. Five years ago: On his second day in the Middle East, President Barack Obama insisted "peace is possible" as he prodded both Israelis and Palestinians to return to long-stalled negotiations with few, if any, pre-conditions, softening his earlier demands that Israel stop building settlements in disputed territory. One year ago: U.S. and British officials announced they were barring laptops and tablets from the cabins of some international flights because of longstanding concerns about terrorists targeting jetliners.
Historic Birthdays
Actress Kathleen Widdoes is 79. Songwriter Chip Taylor ("Wild Thing") is 78. Folk-pop singer-musician Keith Potger (The Seekers) is 77. Actress Marie-Christine Barrault is 74. Singer-musician Rose Stone (Sly and the Family Stone) is 73. Actor Timothy Dalton is 72. Singer Ray Dorset (Mungo Jerry) is 72. Singer Eddie Money is 69. Rock singer-musician Roger Hodgson (Supertramp) is 68. Rock musician Conrad Lozano (Los Lobos) is 67. Rhythm-and-blues singer Russell Thompkins Jr. is 67. Comedy writer-performer Brad Hall is 60. Actress Sabrina LeBeauf is 60. Actor Gary Oldman is 60. Actress Kassie Depaiva is 57. Actor Matthew Broderick is 56. Comedian-actress Rosie O'Donnell is 56. Rock musician Jonas "Joker" Berggren (Ace of Base) is 51. Rock MC Maxim (Prodigy) is 51. Rock musician Andrew Copeland (Sister Hazel) is 50. Hip-hop DJ Premier (Gang Starr) is 49. Actress Laura Allen is 44. Rapper-TV personality Kevin Federline is 40. Actress Sonequa Martin-Green (TV: "The Walking Dead") is 33. Actor Scott Eastwood is 32. Actor Forrest Wheeler is 14. |
Almanac - Wednesday 3/21/18
