Today Thursday, the 15th of March of 2018 is the 74th day of the year.
There are 291 days remaining until the end of the year.
236 days until mid-term elections Tuesday November 6, 2018
(7 months and 22 days from today)
964 days until presidential elections Tuesday November 3, 2020
(2 years 7 months and 19 days from today)
The sun will rise at 7:20 am
and sunset will be at 7:18 pm.
We will have 11 hours and 58 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 1:19 pm.
the first low tide will be at 4:57 am
and the next low tide at 5:19 pm.
The only high tide of the day will be at 10:56 am.
New Moon 17th of March of 2018 at 6:12 am in 2 days
First Quarter Moon 24th of March of 2018 at 8:35 am in 9 days
Full Moon 31th of March of 2018 at 5:37 am in 16 days
Last Quarter Moon 8th of April of 2018 at 12:18 am in 23 days
Today is…
Absolutely Incredible Kid Day®
Companies That Care Day
Dumbstruck Day
Everything You Think is Wrong Day
Ides of March
International Day Against Police Brutality
International Eat an Animal for PETA Day
National Brutus Day
National Peanut Lovers Day
National Pears Helene Day
Oranges and Lemons Day
True Confessions Day
World Consumer Rights Day
It’s also…
International Day Against Police Brutality
J. J. Roberts' Birthday in Liberia
National Day, celebrating the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 in Hungary
World Day of Muslim Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Film
On this day in Women’s History…
March 15, 1933 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg is born. She is the second female U.S. Supreme Court Justice and spent her legal career advocating for women’s rights before taking the bench.
March 15, 1825 (1900) – Harriet E. Wilson, one of the first female African-American novelist, her novel Our Nig, or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black was published anonymously in 1859 in Boston, and was not widely known until it was discovered in 1982 by the scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
March 15, 1896 (1989) – Marion Cuthbert, helped found the National Association of College Women to fight discrimination in higher education (1932), wrote pathbreaking dissertation, “Education and Marginality: A Study of the Negro Woman College Graduate” (1942), secretary of the National Board of YWCA and member of NAACP and numerous peace and human rights boards.
1927 – The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis (the River Thames) in Oxford.
also on this day in history…
44 BC – Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
1819 – French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel wins a contest at the Académie des Sciences in Paris by proving that light behaves like a wave. The Fresnel integrals, still used to calculate wave patterns, silence skeptics who had backed the particle theory of Isaac Newton.
1820 – Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
1877 – First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia.
1906 – Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
1916 – United States President Woodrow Wilson sends 4,800 United States troops over the U.S.–Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
1917 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty.
1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act.
1985 – The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.
2011 – Beginning of the Syrian Civil War.
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you! You also share this day with…
1275 – Margaret of England, Duchess of Brabant (d. 1333)
1493 – Anne de Montmorency, French captain and diplomat (d. 1567)
1767 – Andrew Jackson, American general, judge, and politician, 7th President of the United States (d. 1845)
1852 – Augusta, Lady Gregory, Anglo-Irish landowner, playwright, and translator (d. 1932)
1874 – Harold L. Ickes, American journalist and politician, 32nd United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1952)
1907 – Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (d. 1981)
1911 – Lightnin' Hopkins, American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1982)
1916 – Harry James, American trumpet player, bandleader, and actor (d. 1983)
1921 – Madelyn Pugh, American television writer and producer (d. 2011)
1924 – Irina Nikolaevna Levchenko, Russian tank commander (d. 1973)
1933 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, American lawyer and judge
1935 – Judd Hirsch, American actor
1935 – Jimmy Swaggart, American pastor and television host
1943 – Lynda La Plante, English actress, screenwriter, and author
1943 – Sly Stone, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer
1946 – Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and coach (d. 2003)
1948 – Kate Bornstein, American author and activist
1953 – Heather Graham Pozzessere, American author
1955 – Dee Snider, American singer-songwriter and actor
1958 – Anne Davies, English television presenter and newsreader
1959 – Lisa Holton, American journalist and author
1962 – Terence Trent D'Arby, American singer-songwriter
1965 – Robyn Malcolm, New Zealand actress
1968 – Sabrina Salerno, Italian singer-songwriter
1969 – Rona Ambrose, Canadian journalist and politician, 8th Canadian Minister of Health
1969 – Kim Raver, American actress
1970 – Christine Anu, Australian singer
1971 – Penny Lancaster, English model and photographer
1971 – Joanne Wise, English long jumper
1975 – will.i.am, American rapper, producer, and actor
1975 – Eva Longoria, American actress and producer
1976 – Katherine Brooks, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1981 – Veronica Maggio, Swedish singer-songwriter
1982 – Emily Dunn, American actress and dancer
1990 – Siobhan Magnus, American singer-songwriter
1993 – Alyssa Reid, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
2000 – Kristian Kostov, Russian/Bulgarian singer-songwriter