Today
Saturday March 14 2026
- Day of the year
- 73/ 365
- Week
- 112,026
- Days left
- 29220%
- Moon
- 21%Waning crescent
Today is Saturday, March 14, 2026. It is day 73 of 2026, a year of 365 days: 292 remain, and 20% 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.
- Benedict of Nursiafounder of Christian monasticism, founder of the Benedictine order (480–547)
- Matilda of RingelheimGerman queen consort and duchess consort of Saxony (895-968)
- TheognostusRussian Metropolitan and saint
- LeobinusHermit, abbot, and bishop
- Giacomo CusmanoItalian Catholic priest, physician and blessed (1834–1888)
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Astronomy
New York
- Sunrise
- 07:09
- Sunset
- 19:01
- Length of day
- 11h 53m+3 min vs yesterday
- Solar noon
- 13:05
Times shown for America/New_York
Season
Winter
began on December 21, 2025
Next season
Spring — 6 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
Waning crescent
Illumination : 21%
Moon age : 25.2 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
1590
Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under Charles, Duke of Mayenne, during the French Wars of Religion. Wikipedia
1647
Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm. Wikipedia
1757
Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War. Wikipedia
1794
Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin. Wikipedia
1945
The R.A.F. drop the Grand Slam bomb in action for the first time, on a railway viaduct near Bielefeld, Germany. Wikipedia
1951
Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul for the second time. Wikipedia
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1964
Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin who had shot and killed John F. Kennedy the previous year. Wikipedia
1978
The Israel Defense Forces launch Operation Litani, a seven-day campaign to invade and occupy southern Lebanon. Wikipedia
1995
Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle. Wikipedia
2008
A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and subsequently spread elsewhere in Tibet. Wikipedia
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
Births and deaths
Born on this day March 14
- 1804Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer and conductor (died 1849)
- 1820Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (died 1878)
- 1835Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer and historian (died 1910)
- 1844Umberto I of Italy (died 1900)
- 1853Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (died 1918)
- 1854Paul Ehrlich, German physician and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1915)
- 1869Algernon Blackwood, English author and playwright (died 1951)
- 1879Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955)
Died on this day March 14
- 968Matilda of Ringelheim, Saxon queen (born c. 896)aged 72 years
- 1647Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (born 1584)aged 63 years
- 1823Charles François Dumouriez, French general and politician, French Minister of War (born 1739)aged 84 years
- 1883Karl Marx, German philosopher and theorist (born 1818)aged 65 years
- 1932George Eastman, American inventor and businessman, founded Eastman Kodak (born 1854)aged 78 years
- 1975Susan Hayward, American actress (born 1917)aged 58 years
- 1989Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary (born 1892)aged 97 years
- 1995William Alfred Fowler, American physicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)aged 84 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 07:09 and sets at 19:01, giving 11h 53m of daylight — 3 minutes more than yesterday. It has been winter since December 21, 2025; spring opens in 6 days, on March 20, 2026 (March equinox).
The moon is a waning crescent, 21% illuminated. The next full moon falls on April 2, 2026 and the next new moon on March 19, 2026.
The saints' calendar attaches March 14 to Benedict of Nursia, Matilda of Ringelheim and Theognostus.
No United Nations international day falls on March 14. 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 Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under Charles, Duke of Mayenne, during the French Wars of Religion (1590); Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm (1647). English Wikipedia records 10 events for this date.
Johann Strauss I was born on March 14, 1804; Matilda of Ringelheim died on March 14, 968.
286 days remain until Christmas and 293 until New Year's Day.
In astrology — kept separate from the measured astronomy above, deliberately — March 14 falls under the sign of Pisces.
Calendar
By the numbers
- 20%
- of the year elapsed
- 286
- until Christmas
- 293
- until New Year
- 717
- 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