- 72nd Day of 2015 293 Remaining
- Spring Begins in 7 Days
- Sunrise:7:22
- Sunset:7:15
- 11 Hours 53 Minutes
- Moon Rise:1:55am
- Moon Set:12:19pm
- Phase:Laste Quarter
- Full Moon April 4 @ 5:07am
The name Full Pink Moon came from the herb moss pink, or wild ground phlox, which is one of the earliest widespread flowers of the spring. Other names for this month’s celestial body include the Full Sprouting Grass Moon, the Egg Moon, and among coastal tribes the Full Fish Moon, because this was the time that the shad swam upstream to spawn.
- Tides
- High:4:29am/6:46pm
- Low:11:36am/11:30
- Rainfall:
- This Year to Date:17.04
- Last Year:8.68
- Avg YTD:19.78
- Annual Avg:23.80
- Holidays
- Donald Duck Day
- Earmuff Day
- Good Samaritan Involvement Day
- K-9 Veterans Day
- National Cocoanut Torte Day
- Open An Umbrella Indoors Day
- Ken Day
- Digital Learning Day
- Triskaidekaphobia Day
- On This Day
- 1781 --- German-born English astronomer William Hershel discovers Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. Herschel’s discovery of a new planet was the first to be made in modern times, and also the first to be made by use of a telescope, which allowed Herschel to distinguish Uranus as a planet, not a star, as previous astronomers believed.
- 1852 --- The first illustration of 'Uncle Sam' was published in a political cartoon by satirist Frank Bellew in the ‘New York Lantern’.
- 1861 --- Jefferson Davis signed a bill authorizing slaves to be used as soldiers for the Confederacy.
- 1868 --- For the first time in U.S. history, the impeachment trial of an American president gets underway in the U.S. Senate. President Andrew Johnson, reviled by the Republican-dominated Congress for his views on Reconstruction, stood accused of having violated the controversial Tenure of Office Act, passed by Congress over his veto in 1867.
- 1881 --- Czar Alexander II, the ruler of Russia since 1855, is killed in the streets of St. Petersburg by a bomb thrown by a member of the revolutionary “People’s Will” group. The People’s Will, organized in 1879, employed terrorism and assassination in their attempt to overthrow Russia’s czarist autocracy.
- 1884 --- Standard time is established in the U.S.
- 1942 --- Quartermaster Corps (QMC) of the United States Army begins training dogs for the newly established War Dog Program, or “K-9 Corps.”
- 1944 --- Britain announces that all travel between Ireland and the United Kingdom is suspended, the result of the Irish government’s refusal to expel Axis-power diplomats within its borders.
- 1947 --- The musical "Brigadoon" opened at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City.
- 1951 --- The comic strip "Dennis the Menace" appeared for the first time in newspapers across the country.
- 1954 --- A force of 40,000 Viet Minh with heavy artillery surround 15,000 French troops at Dien Bien Phu. French General Henri Navarre had positioned these forces 200 miles behind enemy lines in a remote area adjacent to the Laotian border.
- 1961 --- President John F. Kennedy proposes a 10-year, multibillion-dollar aid program for Latin America. The program came to be known as the Alliance for Progress and was designed to improve U.S. relations with Latin America, which had been severely damaged in recent years.
- 1964 --- Kitty Genovese, 28, was stabbed to death near her Queens, New York, home. The case came to be a symbol of urban apathy, though initial reports that 38 neighbors ignored Genovese's calls for help have been disputed.
- 1965 --- In and of itself, one man leaving one band in the middle of the 1960s might warrant little more than a historical footnote. But what makes the departure of Eric Clapton from the Yardbirds more significant is the long and complicated game of musical chairs it set off within the world of British blues rock. When Clapton walked out on the Yardbirds, he did more than just change the course of his own career. He also set in motion a chain of events that would see not just one, but two more guitar giants pass through the Yardbirds on their way toward significant futures of their own. And through the various groups they would later form, influence, join and quit, these three guitar heroes—Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page—would shape more than a decade’s worth of rock and roll.
l-r Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton - 1969 --- “The Love Bug,” a Walt Disney movie about the adventures of a Volkswagen Beetle named Herbie, opens in theaters across the United States.
- 1975 --- Ban Me Thuot, capital of Darlac Province in the Central Highlands, falls to North Vietnamese troops. In late January 1975, just two years after the cease-fire established by the Paris Peace Accords, the North Vietnamese launched Campaign 275.
- 1992 --- A 6.8-magnitude earthquake near Erzincan, Turkey, and an unusually powerful aftershock two days later kill at least 500 people and leave 50,000 people homeless. Erzincan was a provincial capital city of 90,000 people 600 miles east of Istanbul in Central Turkey.
- 1996 --- At Dunblane, a 13th-century village on the edge of the Scottish Highlands, 43-year-old Thomas Hamilton bursts into the gymnasium of the Dunblane Primary School with four guns and opens fire on a kindergarten class. Sixteen children and their teacher, Gwenne Mayor, were fatally shot before Hamilton turned the gun on himself. Twelve other children in the class, along with one other adult, were injured.
- 2002 --- Fox aired "Celebrity Boxing." Tonya Harding beat Paula Jones, Danny Banaduce beat Barry Williams and Todd Bridges defeated Vanilla Ice
- 2003 --- A report in the journal "Nature" reported that scientists had found 350,000-year-old human footprints in Italy. The 56 prints were made by three early, upright-walking humans that were descending the side of a volcano.
- 2012 --- After 244 years of publication, Encyclopedia Britannica announced it would discontinue its print edition.
- Birthdays
- Charles ‘Earl’ Grey
- Percival Lowell
- Janet Flanner
- L Ron Hubbard
- Neil Sedaka
- William H Macy
- Adam Clayton
- Natalie Albino
- Nicole Albino
