Today
Wednesday March 11 2026
- Day of the year
- 70/ 365
- Week
- 112,026
- Days left
- 29519%
- Moon
- 48%Last quarter
Today is Wednesday, March 11, 2026. It is day 70 of 2026, a year of 365 days: 295 remain, and 19% of the year has gone. Under ISO 8601 this date falls in week 11.
What's celebrated on this date
No United Nations international day falls on this date.
Coming up
- March 20International Day of Happiness
- March 21International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- March 21World Poetry Day
Saints and name days
Saints whose feast falls on this date, most widely known first.
- Sophronius of JerusalemPatriarch of Jerusalem from 634 to 638
- Eulogius of Córdoba9th-century Spanish Orthodox bishop and saint
- Theodora of Arta13th-century consort of Epirus and Orthodox saint
- Pionius of SmyrnaChristian martyr and saint
- Benedict8th century bishop of Milan
Sources : Wikidata (P841) · CC0 1.0
Astronomy
New York
- Sunrise
- 07:14
- Sunset
- 18:58
- Length of day
- 11h 44m+3 min vs yesterday
- Solar noon
- 13:06
Times shown for America/New_York
Season
Winter
began on December 21, 2025
Next season
Spring — 9 days, March 20, 2026 (March equinox)
Public holidays — United States
Not a public holiday in the United States.
Next public holiday : Memorial Day — May 25, 2026
National holidays only. Regions, provinces and Länder add their own.
Moon
Last quarter
Illumination : 48%
Moon age : 22.2 days
- Next full moon
- April 2, 2026
- Next new moon
- March 19, 2026
Astrology
Today's zodiac sign
Pisces
until March 21, 2026 — Aries
Zodiac dates are an astrological convention, not the Sun's actual position among the constellations. The astronomy above is measured; this is not.
On this day in history
1387
Battle of Castagnaro: Padua, led by John Hawkwood, is victorious over Giovanni Ordelaffi of Verona. Wikipedia
1641
Guaraní forces living in the Jesuit reductions defeat bandeirantes loyal to the Portuguese Empire at the Battle of Mbororé in present-day Panambí, Argentina. Wikipedia
1851
The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice. Wikipedia
1861
American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted. Wikipedia
1941
World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan. Wikipedia
1985
Mikhail Gorbachev is elected to the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, making Gorbachev the USSR's de facto, and last, head of state. Wikipedia
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1990
Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970. Wikipedia
2004
Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain kill 191 people. Wikipedia
2011
An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Eve Wikipedia
2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the COVID-19 virus epidemic a pandemic. Wikipedia
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
Births and deaths
Born on this day March 11
- 1544Torquato Tasso, Italian poet and educator (died 1595)
- 1811Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician and astronomer (died 1877)
- 1818Marius Petipa, French-Russian dancer and choreographer (died 1910)
- 1822Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematician, economist, and academic (died 1900)
- 1887Raoul Walsh, American actor and director (died 1980)
- 1897Henry Cowell, American pianist and composer (died 1965)
- 1916Harold Wilson, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1995)
- 1920Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2017)
Died on this day March 11
- 222Elagabalus, Roman emperor (born 203)aged 19 years
- 1198Marie of France, Countess of Champagne (born 1145)aged 53 years
- 1486Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg (born 1414)aged 72 years
- 1575Matthias Flacius, Croatian theologian and reformer (born 1520)aged 55 years
- 1955Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1881)aged 74 years
- 2002James Tobin, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)aged 84 years
- 2006Slobodan Milošević, Serbian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (born 1941)aged 65 years
- 2022Rupiah Banda, President of Zambia (born 1937)aged 85 years
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
The day in words
In New York the sun rises at 07:14 and sets at 18:58, giving 11h 44m of daylight — 3 minutes more than yesterday. It has been winter since December 21, 2025; spring opens in 9 days, on March 20, 2026 (March equinox).
The moon is at last quarter, 48% illuminated. The next full moon falls on April 2, 2026 and the next new moon on March 19, 2026.
The saints' calendar attaches March 11 to Sophronius of Jerusalem, Eulogius of Córdoba and Theodora of Arta.
No United Nations international day falls on March 11. The next one on the calendar is International Day of Happiness, on March 20.
It is not a public holiday in the United States.
On this day in history: Battle of Castagnaro: Padua, led by John Hawkwood, is victorious over Giovanni Ordelaffi of Verona (1387); Guaraní forces living in the Jesuit reductions defeat bandeirantes loyal to the Portuguese Empire at the Battle of Mbororé in present-day Panambí, Argentina (1641). English Wikipedia records 10 events for this date.
Torquato Tasso was born on March 11, 1544; Elagabalus died on March 11, 222.
289 days remain until Christmas and 296 until New Year's Day.
In astrology — kept separate from the measured astronomy above, deliberately — March 11 falls under the sign of Pisces.
Calendar
By the numbers
- 19%
- of the year elapsed
- 289
- until Christmas
- 296
- until New Year
- 720
- until the next 29 February
2026 — Common year (365 days)
Work with dates
Sources
Every block on this page names where its data comes from. Nothing here is generated when the source is silent.
- United Nations — International Days— What's celebrated today
- Wikidata (P841)— Saints and name days · CC0 1.0
- Wikipedia (en)— On this day in history · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26