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Almanac - Wednesday 3/14/18

Pumpkin Pi Happy Pi day! Pumpkin pie from my great great grandmother's recipe, taken by flickr user effika

73rd day of the year

There are 292 days remaining until the end of the year.

6 days until spring begins...

237 days until mid-term elections Tuesday November 6, 2018

 

(7 months and 23 days from today)

and 965 days until presidential elections Tuesday November 3, 2020

 

(2 years 7 months and 20 days from today)

The sun will rise in San Francisco at 7:21 am 

and sunset will be at 7:18 pm.

We will have 11 hours and 57 minutes of daylight.

Solar noon will be at 1:19 pm.

The first low tide was at 4:21 am

and the next low tide at 4:47 pm.

The first high tide will be at 10:14 am 

and the next high tide at 11:40 pm.

The Moon is 9.0% visible; a waning crescent

 

New Moon

17th of March of 2018 at 6:12 am

in 3 days

Full Moon

31th of March of 2018 at 5:37 am

in 17 days

Celebrate Scientists Day

Crowdfunding Day

Genius Day

International Ask a Question Day

Learn About Butterflies Day

Legal Assistance Day

Moth-er Day

National Children's Craft Day

National Potato Chip Day

National Save a Spider Day

National Write Your Story Day

Pi Day

Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Day

Science Education Day

 

It’s also…

Constitution Day in Andorra

Heroes' Day in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Mother Tongue Day in Estonia

Nanakshahi New Year, first day of the month of Chet  in  Sikhism

Spring Day in Albania

White Day, complementary day of Valentine's Day when men give gifts to women (Japan and Korea)

Thousands of students and teachers are planning to walk out of their classrooms on Wednesday, March 14 as part of the the #Enough! National School Walkout to raise awareness about issues of school safety and the impact of gun violence. The #Enough! National School Walkout will take place on Wednesday, March 14 at 10 a.m. local time. The walkout will last 17 minutes — one minute for each person killed in the Florida school shooting.

on this day in Women’s History…

March 14, 1997 – Simone Biles is born. She becomes the most decorated American gymnast, winning four gold medals at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

March 14, 1833 (d.1910) – Lucy Hobbs Taylor, first American woman to graduate from dental school (Ohio College of Dental Surgery in 1866)

March 14, 1887 (d.1962) – Sylvia Beach, American-born bookseller and publisher who lived most of her life in Paris, where she was one of the leading expatriate figures between World War I and II, known for her Paris bookstore, Shakespeare and Company

March 14, 1902 (d.1994) – Margaret Hickey, president of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women (1944-46), represented the BPW at the United Nations Conference in San Francisco (1945), chaired the Women’s Advisory Committee (1942) and served on and/or chaired many government groups which never had policy making opportunity

March 14, 1921 (d.2013) – Ada Louise Huxtable, architecture critic and writer on architecture, was awarded the first ever Pulitzer Prize for Criticism (1970)

1923 – Diane Arbus, American photographer (d. 1971)

Also on this day in history…

1900 – The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.

1910 – Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vents to atmosphere.

1936 – The first all-sound film version of Show Boat opens at Radio City Music Hall.

1942 – Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.

1994 – Timeline of Linux developmentLinux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.

1995 – Space exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.

If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You!  You share this day with…

1681 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer and theorist (d. 1767)

1804 – Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1849)

1863 – Casey Jones, American engineer (d. 1900)

1879 – Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, engineer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)

1887 – Sylvia Beach, American-French publisher, founded Shakespeare and Company (d. 1962)

1914 – Lee Hays, American singer-songwriter (d. 1981)

1920 – Hank Ketcham, American author and cartoonist, created Dennis the Menace (d. 2001)

1923 – Diane Arbus, American photographer (d. 1971)

1933 – Quincy Jones, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and producer

1948 – Billy Crystal, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

1951 – Jerry Greenfield, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Ben & Jerry's