© 2024 KALW 91.7 FM Bay Area
KALW Public Media / 91.7 FM Bay Area
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Wednesday March 12, 2014

  • 71st Day of 2014 / 294 Remaining
  • 8 Days Until The First Day of Spring

  • Sunrise:7:23
  • Sunset:7:14
  • 11 Hours 49 Minutes of Daylight

  • Moon Rise:3:53pm
  • Moon Set:4:58am
  • Moon’s Phase: 86 %

  • The Next Full Moon
  • March 16 @ 10:10am
  • Full Crow Moon
  • Full Crust Moon
  • Full Sap Moon
  • Full Lenten Moon

As the temperature begins to warm and the ground begins to thaw, earthworm casts appear, heralding the return of the robins. The more northern tribes knew this Moon as the Full Crow Moon, when the cawing of crows signaled the end of winter; or the Full Crust Moon, because the snow cover becomes crusted from thawing by day and freezing at night. The Full Sap Moon, marking the time of tapping maple trees, is another variation. To the settlers, it was also known as the Lenten Moon, and was considered to be the last full Moon of winter.

  • Tides
  • High:8:40am/10:14pm
  • Low:3:00am/3:33pm

  • Rainfall
  • This Year:8.68
  • Last Year:14.59
  • Average Year to Date:19.67

  • Holidays
  • Employee Day
  • Girl Scout Day
  • Genealogy Day
  • Registered Dietitian Day
  • National Baked Scallops Day

  • International Fanny Pack Day
  • Fiesta de las Fallas-Spain
  • Independence Day-Mauritius
  • Moshoeshoe's Day-Lesotho
  • National Day-Gabon
  • Arbor Day-China
  • Youth Day-Zambia

  • On This Day In …
  • 1755 --- The first reported use of the steam engine was made -- in North Arlington, NJ.

  • 1789 --- The U.S. Post Office was established.

  • 1862 --- Ulysses S. Grant was promoted to the rank of general-in-chief of the Union armies in the Civil War by President Abraham Lincoln.

  • 1884 --- The State of Mississippi authorized the first state-supported college for women. It was called the Mississippi Industrial Institute and College.

  • 1894 --- Coca Cola was first bottled by Joseph A. Biedenham of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Before that it was only mixed to order at the soda fountain.
  • 1903 --- The New York Highlanders are given the go-ahead by team owners to join baseball's American League. The Highlanders had recently moved from Baltimore, where they were called the Orioles
    and had a winning tradition dating back to the 1890s. Called the "Yankees" by fans, the team officially changed its name to the New York Yankees in 1913.

  • 1904 --- After 30 years of drilling, the tunnel under the Hudson River was completed. The link was between Jersey City, NJ, and New York, NY.
  • 1912 --- Gather ’round and munch a bunch of delicious Girl Scouts cookies, as we tell you the story of the Girl Scouts of the USA.
    Juliette 'Daisy' Gordon Low founded the organization in Savannah, Georgia. At first, the girls weren’t called Girl Scouts at all. The original name was Girl Guides.

  • 1930 --- Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi begins a defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India.

  • 1933 --- Eight days after he was inaugurated, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt presented his first presidential address to the nation. It was the first of what were called Roosevelt’s famous
    Fireside Chats. These frequent, soothing, down-to-earth talks helped bolster President Roosevelt’s enormous popularity for four terms in office, making him, many say, the greatest President of the century, if not of all time.

  • 1947 --- President Truman established what became known as the Truman Doctrine to help Greece and Turkey resist Communism.

  • 1951 --- The comic strip, Dennis the Menace, appeared for the first time in 16 newspapers across the U.S. The strip became an international favorite in thousands of newspapers and spawned a
    CBS-TV program that starred Jay North as Dennis. The series lasted for several seasons and is still seen in syndicated re-runs. A somewhat popular movie starring Walter Matthau as Mr. Wilson and Christopher Lloyd as the bad guy was released in 1993.

  • 1955 --- One of the great groups of jazz appeared for the first time at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Joining with Brubeck, in what would become one of the most popular concert draws on college
    campuses, were names that would become legends in their own right, including Paul Desmond on alto sax, Joe Morello on drums and Eugene Wright on bass.

  • 1968 --- Senator Eugene McCarthy (D-Minnesota), an outspoken critic of the Johnson administration's policies in Vietnam, polls 42 percent of the vote in New Hampshire's Democratic presidential primary. President Lyndon B. Johnson got 48 percent. A Harris poll later showed that anti-Johnson, rather than antiwar, sentiment provided the basis for McCarthy's surprisingly strong performance.

  • 1969 --- The London drug squad appears at house of George Harrison and Pattie Boyd with a warrant and drug-sniffing canines. Boyd immediately used the direct hotline to Beatles headquarters and George returned to find his home turned upside down. He is
    reported to have told the officers "You needn't have turned the whole bloody place upside down. All you had to do was ask me and I would have shown you where I keep everything." Without his assistance the constables had already found a considerable amount of hashish. Harrison and Boyd were arrested and missed Paul and Linda McCartney's wedding that same day because of the arrest.
  • 1974 --- Nilsson and John Lennon were ejected from the Troubador Club in Los Angeles for heckling the Tom Smothers' comedy act.
  • 1982 --- Live on the Sunset Strip, the latest concert film recorded by the provocative comedian Richard Pryor, arrives in movie theaters.
  • 1985 --- Former U.S. President Richard M. Nixon announced that he planned to drop Secret Service protection and hire his own bodyguards in an effort to lower the deficit by $3 million.

  • 1987 --- The musical "Les Miserables" opened on Broadway.
  • 1988 --- A sudden hail storm prompts fans at a soccer match in Katmandu, Nepal, to flee. The resulting stampede killed at least 70 people and injured hundreds more.  Approximately 30,000 people were watching the game between the Nepalese home team, Janakpur, and Muktijodha, of Bangladesh, at the National Stadium. A storm approached quickly and hail stones began pelting the spectators. When the fans panicked and rushed to the exits, they found the gates locked, apparently to keep people without tickets from entering the stadium. As fans continued to push forward toward the exits, there was no space for them to go.
  • 1993 --- Following her confirmation by the U.S. Senate, Janet Reno is sworn in as the first female attorney general of the United States.
  • 1994 --- The Church of England ordained its first female priests.
  • 1994 --- A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell of the Loch Ness
    monster was confirmed to be a hoax. The photo was taken of a toy submarine with a head and neck attached.
  • 1998 --- Astronomers cancelled a warning that a mile-wide asteroid might collide with Earth saying that calculations had been off by 600,000 miles.

  • 2003 --- The Chinese government ordered the Rolling Stones to eliminate four songs from their upcoming performances in Shanghai and Beijing. The banned songs were "Brown Sugar," "Honky Tonk Women," "Beast of Burden," and "Let's Spend the Night Together."

  • 2008 --- New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned two days after reports had surfaced that he was a client of a prostitution ring.
  • 2009 --- Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty in New York to pulling off perhaps the biggest swindle in Wall Street history.
  • Birthdays
  • Jack Kerouac
  • Clement Studebaker
  • Edward Albee
  • Andrew Young
  • Barbara Feldon
  • Al Jarreau
  • Liza Minelli
  • James Taylor
  • Vaslav Nijinski
  • Elaine de Kooning
  • Walter Schirra
  • Mitt Romney
  • Bill Payne