Today Tuesday, the 3rd of April of 2018 is the 93rd day of the year
There are 272 days remaining until the end of the year.
79 days until summer begins...
217 days until Mid-Term elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018
(7 months and 3 days from today)
945 days until presidential elections Tuesday November 3,2020
(2 years 6 months and 31 days from today)
The sun rises this morning at 6:51 am
and sunset will be at 7:36 pm.
We will have 12 hours and 45 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 1:13 pm.
The first high tide was early this morning at 1:55 am
The first low tide will be at 8:13 am
The next high tide at 2:57 pm this afternoon,
and the final low tide at the Golden Gate will arrive tonight at 8:10 pm.
The Moon is currently 90.0% visible; a Waning Gibbous
Moon Direction: ↑ 214.23° SW
Moon Altitude: 31.55°
Moon Distance: 243428 mi
Next New Moon: Apr 15, 2018 6:57 pm
Next Full Moon: Apr 29, 2018 5:58 pm
Next Moonset:Today 9:02 am
Today is…
American Circus Day
Armenian Appreciation Day
Find a Rainbow Day
Fish Fingers and Custard Day
National Chocolate Mousse Day
National Don't Go to Work Unless It's Fun Day
National Film Score Day
Pony Express Day
SAAM Day of Action
Tweed Day
Weed Out Hate: Sow The Seeds of Greatness Day
World Party Day
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
1783 – Washington Irving, American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian (d. 1859)
1823 – William M. Tweed, “Boss Tweed”, American politician (d. 1878)
1885 – Bud Fisher, American cartoonist of “Mutt And Jeff”
(d. 1954)
1886 – Dooley Wilson, American actor and singer (d. 1953)
1895 – Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian-American composer and educator (d. 1968)
1895 – Zez Confrey, American pianist and composer (d. 1971)
1898 – George Jessel, American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1981)
1898 – Henry Luce, American publisher, co-founded Time Magazine (d. 1967)
1916 – Herb Caen, American journalist and author (d. 1997)
1922 – Doris Day, American singer and actress
1924 – Marlon Brando, American actor and director (d. 2004)
1926 – Gus Grissom, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1967)
1930 – Helmut Kohl, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (d. 2017)
1934 – Jane Goodall, English primatologist and anthropologist
1942 – Wayne Newton, American singer
1943 – Richard Manuel, Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1986)
1944 – Tony Orlando, American singer
1948 – Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Mexican economist and politician, 53rd President of Mexico
1949 – Richard Thompson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1951 – Mitch Woods, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1958 – Alec Baldwin, American actor, comedian, producer and television host
1961 – Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian
1986 – Amanda Bynes, American actress
…and on this day in history…
686 – Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul.
1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins.
1895 – The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
1955 – The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.
1968 – Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.
1969 – Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
1973 – Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
1981 – The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
1996 – Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his Montana cabin in the United States.
2000 – United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
2007 – Conventional-Train World Speed Record: A French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.
2010 – Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer.
2016 – The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies.