Today is Wednesday, the 4th of April of 2018. It is the 94th day of the year.
There are 271 days remaining until the end of the year.
78 days until summer begins...
216 days until mid-term elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018
(7 months and 2 days from today)
944 days until Tuesday November 3, 2020
(2 years 6 months and 30 days from today)
The sun rises at 6:49 am
and sunset will be at 7:37 pm.
Today we will have 12 hours and 48 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 1:13 pm.
The first high tide will be at 2:28 am
and the next high tide at 3:55 pm.
The first low tide will be at 8:58 am
and the next low tide at 8:54 pm.
The Moon is currently --% visible; a Waning Gibbous
Moon Direction:↑ 186.36° S
Moon Altitude: 35.29°
Moon Distance: 245982 mi
Next New Moon: Sunday April 15, 2018 at 6:57 pm
Next Full Moon: Sunday April 29, 2018 at 5:58 pm
Next Moonset: Today at 9:40 am
Today is…
International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action
Paraprofessional Appreciation Day
Victims of Violence Wholly Day
Children's Day in Hong Kong and Taiwan
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Senegal from France (1960).
International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action
Peace Day in Angola
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
1640 – Gaspar Sanz, Spanish guitarist, composer, and priest (d. 1710)
1802 – Dorothea Dix, American nurse and activist (d. 1887)
1895 – Arthur Murray, American dancer and educator (d. 1991)
1913 – Muddy Waters, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1983)
1914 – Marguerite Duras, French novelist, screenwriter, and director (d. 1996)
1922 – Elmer Bernstein, American composer and conductor (d. 2004)
1928 – Maya Angelou, American memoirist and poet (d. 2014)
1932 – Clive Davis, American record producer, founded Arista Records and J Records
1939 – Hugh Masekela, South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, and singer (d. 2018)
1942 – Kitty Kelley, American journalist and biographer
1951 – Hun Sen, Cambodian soldier and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Cambodia
1963 – Graham Norton, Irish actor and talk show host
1965 – Robert Downey Jr., American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1979 – Heath Ledger, Australian actor (d. 2008)
…and on this day in history…
1147 – First historical record of Moscow
1581 – Francis Drake is knighted for completing a circumnavigation of the world.
1812 – United States President James Madison enacts a ninety-day embargo on trade with the United Kingdom.
1841 – William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia, becoming the first President of the United States to die in office, and setting the record for the briefest administration. Vice President John Tyler succeeds Harrison as President.
1850 – Los Angeles is incorporated as a city.
1873 – The Kennel Club is founded, the oldest and first official registry of purebred dogs in the world.
1887 – Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
1958 – The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London.
1964 – The Beatles occupy the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart.
1967 – Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech in New York City's Riverside Church.
1968 – Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
1969 – Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
1973 – The World Trade Center in