- 83rd Day of 2015 282 Remaining
- Summer Begins in 89 Days
- Sunrise:7:05
- Sunset:7:25
- 12 Hours 20 Minutes
- Moon Rise:10:14am
- Moon Set:12:33am(Wenesday)
- Phase:25%
- 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:8:50am/8:52pm
- Low:2:08am/3:32pm
- Rainfall:
- This Year to Date:17.13
- Last Year:8.68
- Avg YTD:20.85
- Annual Avg:23.80
- Holidays
- American Diabetes Association Alert Day
- National Agriculture Day
- National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day
- International Tuberculosis Day
- Covenant Day-Northern Marianas
- Tree Planting Day-Uganda
- On This Day
- 1765 --- The British Parliament passed the Quartering Act, which required American colonists to provide temporary quarters, food, drink, etc. to British troops stationed in their towns.
- 1832 --- Mormon Joseph Smith was beaten, tarred and feathered in Ohio.
- 1862 --- Abolitionist orator Wendell Phillips is booed while attempting to give a lecture in Cincinnati, Ohio. The angry crowd was opposed to fighting for the freedom of slaves, as Phillips advocated. He was pelted with rocks and eggs before friends whisked him away when a small riot broke out.
- 1882 --- German scientist Robert Koch announced in Berlin that he had discovered the bacillus responsible for tuberculosis.
- 1913 --- The home of vaudeville, the Palace Theatre, opened in New York City.
- 1944 --- In Rome, The Gestapo rounded up innocent Italians and shot them to death in response to a bomb attack that killed 32 German policemen. Over 300 civilians were executed.
- 1955 --- Tennessee Williams’ play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” opens in New York, two days before his 44th birthday. The play would win Williams his second Pulitzer Prize. Williams had been an award-winning playwright since 1945, when his first hit play, “The Glass Menagerie”, opened, winning the Drama Critics Circle Award. Two years later, he won his first Pulitzer Prize, for “A Streetcar Named Desire”.
- 1958 --- Elvis Presley was inducted into the Army in Memphis, Tenn.
- 1965 --- The first “teach-in” is conducted at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; two hundred faculty members participate by holding special anti-war seminars. Regular classes were canceled, and rallies and speeches dominated for 12 hours.
- 1973 --- The album "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd was released.
- 1975 --- The North Vietnamese “Ho Chi Minh Campaign” begins. Despite the 1973 Paris Peace Accords cease fire, the fighting had continued between South Vietnamese forces and the North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam.
- 1977 --- For the first time since severing diplomatic relations in 1961, Cuba and the United States enter into direct negotiations when the two nations discuss fishing rights. The talks marked a dramatic, but short-lived, change in relations between the two Cold War enemies.
- 1989 --- The worst oil spill in U.S. territory begins when the supertanker Exxon Valdez, owned and operated by the Exxon Corporation, runs aground on a reef in Prince William Sound in southern Alaska. An estimated 11 million gallons of oil eventually spilled into the water. Attempts to contain the massive spill were unsuccessful, and wind and currents spread the oil more than 100 miles from its source, eventually polluting more than 700 miles of coastline. Hundreds of thousands of birds and animals were adversely affected by the environmental disaster. It was later revealed that Joseph Hazelwood, the captain of the Valdez, was drinking at the time of the accident and allowed an uncertified officer to steer the massive vessel. In March 1990, Hazelwood was convicted of misdemeanor negligence, fined $50,000, and ordered to perform 1,000 hours of community service. In July 1992, an Alaska court overturned Hazelwood’s conviction, citing a federal statute that grants freedom from prosecution to those who report an oil spill. Exxon itself was condemned by the National Transportation Safety Board and in early 1991 agreed under pressure from environmental groups to pay a penalty of $100 million and provide $1 billion over a 10-year period for the cost of the cleanup. However, later in the year, both Alaska and Exxon rejected the agreement, and in October 1991 the oil giant settled the matter by paying $25 million, less than 4 percent of the cleanup aid promised by Exxon earlier that year.
- 1992 --- A Chicago judge ruled in the Milli-Vanilli class-action suit that $3.00 cash rebates would be given to anyone that could prove that they bought the group's music before November 27, 1990 (the date the lip synching scandal broke).
- 1996 --- U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid transfers to the Russian space station Mir from the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis for a planned five-month stay. Lucid was the first female U.S. astronaut to live in a space station. Lucid, a biochemist, shared Mir with Russian cosmonauts Yuri Onufriyenko and Yuri Usachev, conducting scientific experiments during her stay. Beginning in August, her scheduled return to Earth was delayed more than six weeks because of last-minute repairs to the booster rockets of Atlantis and then by a hurricane. Finally, on September 26, 1996, she returned to Earth aboard Atlantis, touching down at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Her 188-day sojourn aboard Mir set a new space endurance record for an American and a world endurance record for a woman.
- 1999 --- The 7-mile tunnel under Mont Blanc in France was an inferno after a truck carrying flour and margarine caught on fire. At least 30 people were killed.
- 2002 --- Halle Berry became the first African-American performer to win a best actress Oscar, for "Monster's Ball." On the heels of Berry’s historic win, Denzel Washington became only the second African-American man to win in the Best Actor category, accepting the statuette for his role as a corrupt Los Angeles police officer in Training Day. It was the first time that African-American performers had taken home both of the year’s top acting awards.
- 2002 --- Thieves stole five 17th century paintings from the Frans Hals Museum in the Dutch city of Haarlem. The paintings were worth about $2.6 million. The paintings were works by Jan Steen, Cornelis Bega, Adriaan van Ostade and Cornelis Dusart.
- Birthdays
- Harry Houdini
- Andrew Mellon
- Annabella Sciorra
- Lara Flynn Boyle
- Jim Parsons
- Fatty Arbuckle
- Clyde Barrow
- Arthur Murray
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Steve McQueen
- Nick Lowe
- Louis Anderson
- Kelly LeBrock
- Star Jones
- Peyton Manning
- Keisha Castle Hughes
Tuesday March 24, 2015
