Today
Thursday March 5 2026
- Day of the year
- 64/ 365
- Week
- 102,026
- Days left
- 30118%
- Moon
- 95%Waning gibbous
Today is Thursday, March 5, 2026. It is day 64 of 2026, a year of 365 days: 301 remain, and 18% of the year has gone. Under ISO 8601 this date falls in week 10.
What's celebrated on this date
No United Nations international day falls on this date.
Coming up
- March 8International Women's Day
- March 20International Day of Happiness
- March 21International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Saints and name days
Saints whose feast falls on this date, most widely known first.
- Yaroslav the WiseGrand Prince of Kiev from 1019 to 1054
- Gerasimus of the JordanChristian monk and abbot
- Saint PiranCornish abbot and saint
- Ciarán of SaigirIrish saint
- John Joseph of the CrossItalian saint
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Astronomy
New York
- Sunrise
- 06:23
- Sunset
- 17:52
- Length of day
- 11h 28m+3 min vs yesterday
- Solar noon
- 12:07
Times shown for America/New_York
Season
Winter
began on December 21, 2025
Next season
Spring — 15 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 gibbous
Illumination : 95%
Moon age : 16.2 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
363
Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death. Wikipedia
1616
Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published. Wikipedia
1770
Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later. Wikipedia
1850
The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened. Wikipedia
1933
Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections, which allows the Nazis to later pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship. Wikipedia
1940
Six high-ranking members of the Soviet politburo, including Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre. Wikipedia
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1946
Cold War: Winston Churchill delivers his famous "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College, Missouri. Wikipedia
1970
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations. Wikipedia
1979
Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters. Wikipedia
1982
Soviet probe Venera 14 lands on Venus. Wikipedia
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
Births and deaths
Born on this day March 5
- 1133Henry II of England (died 1189)
- 1324David II of Scotland (died 1371)
- 1326Louis I of Hungary (died 1382)
- 1512Gerardus Mercator, Flemish mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher (died 1594)
- 1898Zhou Enlai, Chinese politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China (died 1976)
- 1934Daniel Kahneman, Israeli-American economist and psychologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)
- 1936Canaan Banana, Zimbabwean minister and politician, 1st President of Zimbabwe (died 2003)
- 1942Felipe González, Spanish lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Spainturns 84 years
Died on this day March 5
- 1534Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter and educator (born 1489)aged 45 years
- 1622Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (born 1569)aged 53 years
- 1827Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (born 1749)aged 78 years
- 1827Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist and academic (born 1745)aged 82 years
- 1893Hippolyte Taine, French historian and critic (born 1828)aged 65 years
- 1895Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, English general and scholar (born 1810)aged 85 years
- 1953Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator and politician of Georgian descent, 2nd leader of the Soviet Union (born 1878)aged 75 years
- 2013Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan colonel and politician, President of Venezuela (born 1954)aged 59 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 06:23 and sets at 17:52, giving 11h 28m of daylight — 3 minutes more than yesterday. It has been winter since December 21, 2025; spring opens in 15 days, on March 20, 2026 (March equinox).
The moon is waning gibbous, 95% illuminated. The next full moon falls on April 2, 2026 and the next new moon on March 19, 2026.
The saints' calendar attaches March 5 to Yaroslav the Wise, Gerasimus of the Jordan and Saint Piran.
No United Nations international day falls on March 5. The next one on the calendar is International Women's Day, on March 8.
It is not a public holiday in the United States.
On this day in history: Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death (363); Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published (1616). English Wikipedia records 10 events for this date.
Henry II of England was born on March 5, 1133; Antonio da Correggio died on March 5, 1534.
295 days remain until Christmas and 302 until New Year's Day.
In astrology — kept separate from the measured astronomy above, deliberately — March 5 falls under the sign of Pisces.
Calendar
By the numbers
- 18%
- of the year elapsed
- 295
- until Christmas
- 302
- until New Year
- 726
- 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