- 78th Day of 2015 287 Remaining
- Spring Begins Tomorrow
- Sunrise:7:13
- Sunset:7:21
- 12 Hours 8 Minutes
- Moon Rise:6:42am
- Moon Set:6:55pm
- Phase:1%
- 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:10:43am/11:25pm
- Low:4:33am/4:56pm
- Rainfall:
- This Year to Date:17.04
- Last Year:8.68
- Avg YTD:20.40
- Annual Avg:23.80
- Holidays
- Absolutely Incredible Kid Day
- Client’s Day
- Companies That Care Day
- National Chocolate Caramel Day
- National Poultry Day
- Deskfast Day
- On This Day
- 1822 --- The city of Boston was incorporated.
- 1831 --- The first bank robbery in America was reported. The City Bank of New York City lost $245,000 in the robbery.
- 1842 --- French writer Honore de Balzac’s play Les Ressources de Quinola opens to an empty house thanks to a failed publicity stunt. Hoping to create a buzz for the play, the writer circulated a rumor that tickets were sold out. Unfortunately, most of his fans stayed home.
- 1859 --- The opera Faust by Charles Gounod premiered in Paris.
- 1887 --- Construction began on the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, California. At the time, the 399 room hotel was the largest resort hotel in the world.
- 1895 --- The Los Angeles Railway was established to provide streetcar service.
- 1917 --- The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Adamson Act that made the eight-hour workday for railroads constitutional.
- 1918 --- The Standard Time Act of 1918 was passed, authorizing Daylight Saving Time in the U.S. It became effective on March 31, 1918.
- 1931 --- In an attempt to lift the state out of the hard times of the Great Depression, the Nevada state legislature votes to legalize gambling. Located in the Great Basin desert, few settlers chose to live in Nevada after the United States acquired the territory at the end of the Mexican War in 1848. In 1859, the discovery of the “Comstock Lode” of gold and silver spurred the first substantial number of settlers into Nevada to exploit the territory’s mining opportunities. Five years later, during the Civil War, Nevada was hastily made the 36th state in order to strengthen the Union. At the beginning of the Depression, Nevada’s mines were in decline, and its economy was in shambles. In March 1931, Nevada’s state legislature responded to population flight by taking the drastic measure of legalizing gambling and, later in the year, divorce. Established in 1905, Las Vegas, Nevada, has since become the gambling and entertainment capital of the world, famous for its casinos, nightclubs, and sporting events.
- 1949 --- In a precursor to the establishment of a separate, Soviet-dominated East Germany, the People’s Council of the Soviet Zone of Occupation approves a new constitution. This action, together with the U.S. policy of pursuing an independent pathway in regards to West Germany, contributed to the permanent division of Germany.
- 1953 --- For the first time, audiences are able to sit in their living rooms and watch as the movie world’s most prestigious honors, the Academy Awards, are given out at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood.
- 1953 --- Cecil B. DeMille wins the only Academy Award of his career when The Greatest Show on Earth takes home an Oscar for Best Picture. The film, a big-budget extravaganza about circus life, starred Charlton Heston, Betty Hutton, and Cornel Wilde.
- 1957 --- Elvis Presley bought the mansion he called Graceland.
- 1962 --- Bob Dylan's self-titled debut album was released by Columbia Records.
- 1963 --- In Costa Rica, U.S. President John F. Kennedy and six Latin American presidents pledged to fight Communism.
- 1970 --- The National Assembly grants “full power” to Premier Lon Nol, declares a state of emergency, and suspends four articles of the constitution, permitting arbitrary arrest and banning public assembly. Lon Nol and First Deputy Premier Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak had conducted a bloodless coup against Prince Norodom Sihanouk the day before and proclaimed the establishment of the Khmer Republic.
- 1971 --- An earthquake sets off a series of calamities—a landslide, flood and avalanche–that results in the destruction of the town of Chungar, Peru, and the death of 600 of its inhabitants.
- 1977 --- The last episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" aired.
- 1982 --- Randy Rhoads died at the age of 25 in a plane crash. The plane was buzzing Ozzy Osbourne's tour bus when it crashed. The pilot and another female passenger were also killed.
- 1987 --- Televangelist Jim Bakker resigned as chairman of his PTL ministry organization amid a sex-and-money scandal involving a former church secretary, Jessica Hahn.
- 2000 --- Vector Data Systems conducted a simulation of the 1993 Branch Davidian siege in Waco, TX. The simulation showed that the government had not fired first.
- 2003 --- Just after explosions began to rock Baghdad, Iraq’s capital, U.S. President George W. Bush announced in a televised address, “At this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.” President Bush and his advisors built much of their case for war on the idea that Iraq, under dictator Saddam Hussein, possessed or was in the process of building weapons of mass destruction.
- 2008 --- In Alamosa, Colorado state health officials warned residents to stop drinking and cooking with tap water after samples had tested positive for salmonella contamination. The ban was lifted on April 11, 2008 after the city flushed its 51 miles of water lines with a heavy dose of chlorine. The salmonella outbreak linked to the city's tap water sickened nearly 400 people before being declared safe to drink on April 11, 2008.
- 2012 --- Israel passed the ‘Photoshop Law’, which bans the showing of overly thin models in local advertising in an attempt to fight the spread of eating disorders.
- Birthdays
- Glenn Close
- Elisa Hicks
- David Livingstone
- Wyatt Earp
- John Sirica
- Edith Nourse Rogers
- Jackie “Moms” Mabley
- Irving Wallace
- Chief Justice Earl Warren
- Ornette Coleman
- Philip Roth
- Phyllis Newman
- Ruth Pointer
- Terry Hall
- Bruce Willis
Thursday March 19, 2015
