Today Thursday, 27th of March of 2025,
March 27 is the 86th day of the year
279 days remain until the end of the year.
85 days until summer begins
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 7:01:35 am
and sunset will be at 7:29:24 pm.
Today we will have 12 hours and 27 minutes of daylight
The solar transit will be at 1:15:29 pm.
Water temperature in Aquatic Park today is 57.2°F.
The first low tide will be at 3:28 am at 1.44 feet
The first high tide will be at 9:44 am at 5.75 feet
The next low tide at 4:11 pm at -0.32 feet
and the final high tide at Ocean Beach tonight will be at 10:41 pm at 5.48 feet
Today is….
Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day
Today is also…
Day of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania (Romania)
The Moon is 5.7% visible
It’s a Waning Crescent
We’ll have a New Moon and a Partial Solar Eclipse in 2 days on Saturday the 29th of March of 2025 at 3:58 am
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your special day with these figures in Women’s Herstory…
March 27, 1897 (d.1981) – Effa Manley, co-owner and manager with husband Abe of the Negro League baseball team the Brooklyn Eagles (1935-46), supported integration with the NAACP, worked hard to get Negro League players included in the Baseball Hall of Fame
March 27, 1924 (d.1990) – Sarah Vaughan, world renown jazz singer and pianist known as the “Divine One”
March 27, 1950 – Julia Alvarez, Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist, her first novel How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991) was highly acclaimed for its portrayal of the integration of Latina immigrants into the U.S. mainstream
1724 – Jane Colden, American botanist and author (d. 1766)
1824 – Virginia Minor, American women's suffrage activist (d. 1894)
1862 – Jelena Dimitrijević, Serbian short story writer, novelist, poet, traveller, social worker, feminist and polyglot (d. 1945)
1868 – Patty Hill, American songwriter and educator (d. 1946)
1878 – Kathleen Scott, British sculptor (d. 1947)
1883 – Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (d. 1980)
1899 – Gloria Swanson, American actress and producer (d. 1983)
1905 – Leroy Carr, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1935)
1906 – Pee Wee Russell, American clarinet player, saxophonist, and composer (d. 1969)
1909 – Ben Webster, American saxophonist (d. 1973)
1915 – Robert Lockwood, Jr., American guitarist (d. 2006)
1917 – Cyrus Vance, American lawyer and politician, 57th United States Secretary of State (d. 2002)
1917 – Mary Watt, New Zealand landscape architect and gardener (d. 2005)
1924 – Sarah Vaughan, American singer (d. 1990)
1924 – Margaret K. Butler, American mathematician and computer programmer (d. 2013)
1927 – Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (d. 2007)
1929 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
1950 – Maria Ewing, American soprano (d. 2022)
1952 – Annemarie Moser-Pröll, Austrian skier
1952 – Maria Schneider, French actress (d. 2011)
1955 – Susan Neiman, American-German philosopher and author
1963 – Quentin Tarantino, American director, producer, screenwriter and actor
1963 – Xuxa, Brazilian actress, singer, businesswoman and television presenter
1967 – Talisa Soto, American actress
1968 – Irina Belova, Russian heptathlete
1969 – Pauley Perrette, American actress
1969 – Mariah Carey, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1970 – Leila Pahlavi, Princess of Iran (d. 2001)
1970 – Elizabeth Mitchell, American actress
1975 – Fergie, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
1976 – Roberta Anastase, Romanian politician, 57th President of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania
1978 – Amélie Cocheteux, French tennis player
1979 – Jennifer Wilson, Zimbabwean-South African field hockey player
1980 – Michaela Paštiková, Czech tennis player
1981 – Hilda Kibet, Kenyan runner
1983 – Yuliya Golubchikova, Russian pole vaulter
1987 – Polina Gagarina, Russian singer-songwriter
1987 – Buster Posey, American baseball player
1988 – Brenda Song, American actress
1989 – Camilla Lees, New Zealand netball player
1990 – Kimbra, New Zealand musician
1997 – Lisa, Thai rapper and dancer[34]
2000 – Halle Bailey, American singer-songwriter and actress[37]
2000 – Sophie Nélisse, Canadian actress[38]
2002 – Daria Snigur, Ukrainian tennis player[40]
Also on this day in history….
1866 – President of the United States of America Andrew Johnson vetoes the Civil Rights Act of 1866. His veto is overridden by Congress and the bill passes into law on April 9.
1912 – First Lady Helen Taft and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, plant two Yoshino cherry trees on the northern bank of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., the origin of the National Cherry Blossom Festival.
1915 – Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine for the second time, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
1964 – The Good Friday earthquake, the most powerful earthquake recorded in North American history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes Southcentral Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
1975 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
1976 – The first section of the Washington Metro opens to the public.
1981 – The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
1998 – The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for erectile dysfunction, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
2014 – Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict.
