KALW Almanac: Wed. March 8, 2017 – KALW

Today Wednesday, 8th of March of 2017 is the 68th day of the year.There are 298 days remaining until the end of the year.608 days until mid-term elections1336 days until the next presidential electionThe sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:29 this morningand the sun will set at 6:11 this evening.Today we will have 11 hours and 42 minutes of daylight.

The solar noon will be at 12:20, mid-day.

The first low tide was at 1:44 early this morning

and the next low tide will be at 2:38 this afternoon

The first high tide will be at 7:51 this morning

and the next high tide at 9:43 tonight

The Moon is currently 82.1% illuminated; a Waxing Gibbous

Moon Direction: 304.99 NW

Moon Altitude: -14.11

Moon Distance: 233669 mi

Next Full Moon: Mar 12, 2017 at 7:53 am

Next New Moon: Mar 27, 2017 at 7:57 pm

Next Moonrise: Today at 2:28 pm

Discover What Your Name Means Day

Girls Write Now Day

International Women's Day

Also known as International Working Women's Day

National Be Nasty Day

National Peanut Cluster Day

National Proofreading Day

Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Day

Also known as Registered Dietitian Day

The earliest organized Women's Day observance was held on February 28, 1909, in New York. It was organized by the Socialist Party of America in remembrance of the 1908 strike of the International Ladies Garment Worker's Union. There was no strike on March 8, despite later claims.

On International Womens Day, women across the world will strike against President Trump and the social injustices that helped him rise to power.

Womens March organizers have declared March 8 A Day Without a Woman, alongside an International Womens Strike taking place in more than 30 countries that day. Theyre urging US women to take the day off work if they can, or to show support in other ways if they cant.

Womens March organizers released some basic guidelines last week for anyone, anywhere who wants to participate in A Day Without a Woman:

1. Women take the day off, from paid and unpaid labor

2. Avoid shopping for one day (with exceptions for small, women- and minority-owned businesses)

3. Wear RED in solidarity with A Day Without A Woman

Male allies are also encouraged to show support by taking care of children and housework, or by starting conversations with decision makers in their workplace about how to promote family-friendly policies like paid leave or flexible scheduling.

if today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with

1714 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German pianist and composer (d. 1788)

1839 Josephine Cochrane, American inventor (d. 1913)

1841 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American colonel, lawyer, and jurist (d. 1935)

1911 Alan Hovhaness, Armenian-American pianist and composer (d. 2000)

1921 Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (d. 1990)

1931 Neil Postman, American author and critic (d. 2003)

1936 Gbor Szab, Hungarian guitarist and composer (d. 1982)

1937 Richard Faria, American singer-songwriter and author (d. 1966)

1943 Lynn Redgrave, English-American actress and singer (d. 2010)

1945 Micky Dolenz, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor

1958 Gary Numan, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1959 Aidan Quinn, Irish-American actor

On this day in history...

1618 Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.

1702 Queen Anne, the younger sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant ofEngland, Scotland, and Ireland.

1775 An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes"African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for theemancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.

1817 The New York Stock Exchange is founded.

1910 French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive apilot's license.

1917 International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning ofthe February Revolution (February 23rd in the Julian calendar).

1936 Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.

1937 Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.

1949 Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is condemned to prison for treason.

1978 The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by DouglasAdams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.

1979 Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.

1983 While addressing a convention of Evangelicals, U.S. President RonaldReagan labels the Soviet Union an "evil empire".

2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying a total of 239 people, disappears enroute from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

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