Today is Monday, the 2nd of April of 2018.
It is the 92nd day of the year.
There are 273 days remaining until the end of the year.
80 days until summer begins
218 days until mid-term elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018
(7 months and 4 days from today)
946 days until presidential elections Tuesday November 3, 2020
(2 years 7 months and 1 day from today)
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:52 am
and sunset will be at 7:35 pm.
Today we will have 12 hours and 43 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 1:13 pm.
The first high tide was at 1:23 am
and the next high tide will be at 2:05 pm.
The first low tide will be at 7:29 am
and the next low tide at 7:30 pm.
The Moon is currently 95.3% visible; now a Waning Gibbous
Moon Direction: ↑ 222.11° SW
Moon Altitude: 32.16°
Moon Distance: 240542 mi
Next New Moon: Thursday April 15, 2018 at 6:57 pm
Next Full Moon: Thursday April 29, 2018 at 5:58 pm
Next Moonset: Today 8:28 am
Today is…
Dyngus Day
Also known as Wet Easter Monday
International Fact-Checking Day
National Ferret Day
National Fun Day
National Love your Produce Manager Day
National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day
Reconciliation Day
Sweet Potato Day
White House Easter Egg Roll
It’s also…
International Children's Book Day
Thai Heritage Conservation Day in Thailand
Unity of Peoples of Russia and Belarus Day in Belarus
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you! You share this day with…
742 – Charlemagne, Frankish king (d. 814)
1805 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish novelist, short story writer, and poet (d. 1875)
1840 – Émile Zola, French novelist, playwright, journalist (d. 1902)
1875 – Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler (d. 1940)
1891 – Max Ernst, German painter, sculptor, and poet (d. 1976)
1908 – Buddy Ebsen, American actor and dancer (d. 2003)
1914 – Alec Guinness, English actor (d. 2000)
1920 – Jack Webb, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1982)
1928 – Serge Gainsbourg, French singer-songwriter, actor, and director (d. 1991)
1934 – Carl Kasell, American journalist and game show host
1939 – Marvin Gaye, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)
1941 – Dr. Demento, American radio host
1942 – Leon Russell, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2016)
1942 – Roshan Seth, Indian-English actor
1943 – Larry Coryell, American jazz guitarist (d. 2017)
1945 – Anne Waldman, American poet
1947 – Emmylou Harris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1947 – Camille Paglia, American author and critic
1965 – Rodney King, American victim of police brutality (d. 2012)
…and on this day in history…
1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León first sights land in what is now the United States state of Florida.
1800 – Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna.
1902 – "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
1930 – After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.
1956 – As the World Turns and The Edge of Night premiere on CBS. The two soaps become the first daytime dramas to debut in the 30-minute format.
1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scarein the early 1950s.
1973 – Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.