Today is Monday, the 26th of March of 2018. It is the 85th day of the year.
There are 280 days remaining until the end of the year.
87 days until summer begins...
225 days until mid-term elections Tuesday November 6 2018
(7 months and 11 days from today)
953 days until presidential elections Tuesday November 3, 2020
(2 years 7 months and 8 days from today)
The sun rises at 7:03 am
and sunset will be at 7:29 pm.
Today we will have 12 hours and 26 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 1:16 pm.
The first low tide was at 1:36 am
and the next low tide will be at 2:26 pm.
The first high tide will be at 7:32 am
and the next high tide at 9:42 pm.
The Moon is 70.7% visible; a Waxing Gibbous
Moon Direction: ↑ 302.09° WNW
Moon Altitude:-9.48°
Moon Distance: 229362 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 2:26 pm
Today is…
National Make Up Your Own Holiday Day
Also known as International Epilepsy Day
Today is also…
Independence Day and National Day (Bangladesh), celebrates the declaration of independence from Pakistan in 1971.
Martyr's Day or Day of Democracy in Mali
Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel in Eastern Christianity
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
1633 – Mary Beale, British artist (d. 1699)
1687 – Sophia Dorothea of Hanover (d. 1757)
1859 – A. E. Housman, English poet and scholar (d. 1936)
1873 – Dorothea Bleek, South African-German anthropologist and philologist (d. 1948)
1874 – Robert Frost, American poet and playwright (d. 1963)
1881 – Guccio Gucci, Italian fashion designer, founded Gucci (d. 1953)
1900 – Angela Maria Autsch, German nun, died in Auschwitz helping Jewish prisoners (d. 1941)
1904 – Joseph Campbell, American mythologist and author (d. 1987)
1905 – Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (d. 1997)
1911 – Tennessee Williams, American playwright, and poet (d. 1983)
1914 – William Westmoreland, American general (d. 2005)
1916 – Sterling Hayden, American actor and author (d. 1986)
1917 – Rufus Thomas, American R&B singer-songwriter (d. 2001)
1923 – Bob Elliott, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (d. 2016)
1925 – Pierre Boulez, French pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2016)
1929 – Edward Sorel, American illustrator and caricaturist
1930 – Sandra Day O'Connor, American lawyer and jurist
1930 – Gregory Corso, American poet (d. 2001)
1931 – Leonard Nimoy, American actor (d. 2015)
1934 – Alan Arkin, American actor
1935 – Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian politician, 2nd President of the State of Palestine
1937 – Barbara Jones, American sprinter
1940 – James Caan, American actor and singer
1940 – Nancy Pelosi, American lawyer and politician, 60th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
1941 – Richard Dawkins, Kenyan-English ethologist, biologist, and academic
1942 – Erica Jong, American novelist and poet
1943 – Bob Woodward, American journalist and author
1944 – Diana Ross, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1948 – Steven Tyler, American singer-songwriter and actor
1949 – Vicki Lawrence, American actress, comedian, talk show host, and singer
1950 – Teddy Pendergrass, American singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
1953 – Elaine Chao, Taiwanese-American banker and politician, 24th United States Secretary of Labor
1953 – Tatyana Providokhina, Russian runner
1954 – Curtis Sliwa, American talk show host and activist, founded Guardian Angels
1954 – Dorothy Porter, Australian poet and playwright (d. 2008)
1957 – Fiona Bruce, Scottish lawyer and politician
1957 – Leeza Gibbons, American talk show host and television personality
1960 – Jennifer Grey, American actress and dancer
1964 – Maria Miller, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
1965 – Violeta Szekely, Romanian runner
1966 – Lilian Greenwood, English politician]
1972 – Leslie Mann, American actress
1974 – Irina Spîrlea, Romanian tennis player
1976 – Amy Smart, American actress and former model
1984 – Sara Jean Underwood, American model, television host, and actress
1985 – Keira Knightley, English actress
1986 – Emma Laine, Finnish tennis player
2003 – Danielle Bregoli, American rapper and social media personality
2005 – Ella Anderson, American actress
On this day in history…
1812 – A political cartoon in the Boston Gazette coins the term "gerrymander" to describe oddly shaped electoraldistrictsdesigned to help incumbents win reelection
1945 – World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is officially secured by American forces.
1967 – Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City.
1971 – East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Liberation War begins.
1979 – Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C.