Today is Thursday, the 5th of April of 2018. It is the 95th day of the year.
There are 270 days remaining until the end of the year.
77 days until summer begins...
215 days until Tuesday November 6, 2018
(7 months and 2 days from today)
943 days until Tuesday November 3, 2020
(2 years 6 months and 30 days from today)
The sun rises this morning at 6:48 am
and the sun will set at 7:38 pm.
We will have 12 hours and 50 minutes of daylight today.
Solar noon will be at 1:13 pm.
The first high tide was at 3:04 am
The first low tide will be at 9:47 am
The next high tide at 5:00 pm.
and the final low tide at the Golden Gate arrives tonight at 9:48 pm.
Today is…
Accelerate ACL Awareness Among Young Women Day
National Alcohol Screening Day
National Raisin and Spice Bar Day
It’s also…
Cold Food Festival in China
Children's Day in the Palestinian territories
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
1588 – Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (d. 1679)
1856 – Booker T. Washington, African-American educator, essayist and historian (d. 1915)
1882 – Natalia Sedova, 2nd wife of Leon Trotsky (d. 1962)
1900 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (d. 1967)
1902 – Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Russian-American rabbi (d. 1994)
1908 – Bette Davis, American actress (d. 1989)
1908 – Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor and manager (d. 1989)
1916 – Gregory Peck, American actor, political activist, and producer (d. 2003)
1923 – Ernest Mandel, Marxist economist and a Trotskyist activist and theorist (d. 1995)
1923 – Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, Vietnamese general and politician, 5th President of South Vietnam (d. 2001)
1933 – Frank Gorshin, American actor (d. 2005)
1934 – Stanley Turrentine, American saxophonist and composer (d. 2000)
1937 – Colin Powell, American general and politician, 65th United States Secretary of State
1939 – Ronald White, American singer-songwriter (d. 1995)
1941 – Dave Swarbrick, English singer-songwriter and fiddler (d. 2016)
1948 – Dave Holland, English drummer (d. 2018)
1949 – Judith Resnik, Ukrainian-American engineer and astronaut (d. 1986)
1954 – Peter Case, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1973 – Pharrell Williams, American singer-songwriter, rapper, producer, and fashion designer
…and on this day in history…
823 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I.
1242 – During the Battle on the Ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.
1792 – United States President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
1922 – The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
1933 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens.
1969 – Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.