Today
Saturday March 28 2026
- Day of the year
- 87/ 365
- Week
- 132,026
- Days left
- 27824%
- Moon
- 80%Waxing gibbous
Today is Saturday, March 28, 2026. It is day 87 of 2026, a year of 365 days: 278 remain, and 24% of the year has gone. Under ISO 8601 this date falls in week 13.
What's celebrated on this date
No United Nations international day falls on this date.
Coming up
- April 2World Autism Awareness Day
- April 7World Health Day
- April 12International Day of Human Space Flight
Saints and name days
Saints whose feast falls on this date, most widely known first.
- Guntramking of Burgundy from 561 to 592
- Stephen HardingEnglish-born monk and abbot
- Proterius of AlexandriaPatriarch of Alexandria
- Herodion of Patrasbishop and saint
- EnravotaBulgarian Christian martyr
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Astronomy
New York
- Sunrise
- 06:46
- Sunset
- 19:16
- Length of day
- 12h 31m+3 min vs yesterday
- Solar noon
- 13:01
Times shown for America/New_York
Season
Spring
began on March 20, 2026
Next season
Summer — 85 days, June 21, 2026 (June solstice)
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
Waxing gibbous
Illumination : 80%
Moon age : 9.6 days
- Next full moon
- April 2, 2026
- Next new moon
- April 17, 2026
Astrology
Today's zodiac sign
Aries
until April 20, 2026 — Taurus
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
193
After assassinating the Roman Emperor Pertinax, his Praetorian Guards auction off the throne to Didius Julianus. Wikipedia
364
Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor. Wikipedia
1566
The foundation stone of Valletta, Malta's capital city, is laid by Jean Parisot de Valette, Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Wikipedia
1802
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid ever to be discovered. Wikipedia
1854
Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia. Wikipedia
1862
American Civil War: In the Battle of Glorieta Pass, Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of the New Mexico Territory. The battle began on March 26. Wikipedia
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1910
Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from water runway Étang le Barre, near Marseille. Wikipedia
1939
Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid after a three-year siege. Wikipedia
1979
A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown. Wikipedia
2005
An earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a magnitude of 8.6 and killing over 1000 people. Wikipedia
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Births and deaths
Born on this day March 28
- 1472Fra Bartolomeo, Italian painter (died 1517)
- 1515Teresa of Ávila, Spanish nun and saint (died 1582)
- 1592John Amos Comenius, Czech bishop and educator (died 1670)
- 1750Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan general and politician (died 1816)
- 1862Aristide Briand, French politician, Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1932)
- 1928Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-American political activist and analyst; United States National Security Advisor (died 2017)
- 1936Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2025)
- 1953Melchior Ndadaye, Burundian banker and politician, 4th President of Burundi (died 1993)
Died on this day March 28
- 1241Valdemar II of Denmark (born 1170)aged 71 years
- 1881Modest Mussorgsky, Russian pianist and composer (born 1839)aged 42 years
- 1941Virginia Woolf, English writer (born 1882)aged 59 years
- 1943Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1873)aged 70 years
- 1969Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and politician, 34th President of the United States (born 1890)aged 79 years
- 1982William Giauque, Canadian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1895)aged 87 years
- 2006Caspar Weinberger, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of Defense (born 1917)aged 89 years
- 2021Didier Ratsiraka, Malagasy politician and naval officer (born 1936)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 06:46 and sets at 19:16, giving 12h 31m of daylight — 3 minutes more than yesterday. It has been spring since March 20, 2026; summer opens in 85 days, on June 21, 2026 (June solstice).
The moon is waxing gibbous, 80% illuminated. The next full moon falls on April 2, 2026 and the next new moon on April 17, 2026.
The saints' calendar attaches March 28 to Guntram, Stephen Harding and Proterius of Alexandria.
No United Nations international day falls on March 28. The next one on the calendar is World Autism Awareness Day, on April 2.
It is not a public holiday in the United States.
On this day in history: After assassinating the Roman Emperor Pertinax, his Praetorian Guards auction off the throne to Didius Julianus (193); Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor (364). English Wikipedia records 10 events for this date.
Fra Bartolomeo was born on March 28, 1472; Valdemar II of Denmark died on March 28, 1241.
272 days remain until Christmas and 279 until New Year's Day.
In astrology — kept separate from the measured astronomy above, deliberately — March 28 falls under the sign of Aries.
Calendar
By the numbers
- 24%
- of the year elapsed
- 272
- until Christmas
- 279
- until New Year
- 703
- 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