Today
Saturday March 7 2026
- Day of the year
- 66/ 365
- Week
- 102,026
- Days left
- 29918%
- Moon
- 82%Waning gibbous
Today is Saturday, March 7, 2026. It is day 66 of 2026, a year of 365 days: 299 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.
- Thomas AquinasItalian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church (1225–1274)
- Perpetua and Felicityearly 3rd century Carthaginian Christian martyrs
- Marie Clotilde of FranceQueen consort of Sardinia (1796-1802) and Venerable
- Siméon-François BerneuxFrench Roman Catholic missioner, bishop and saint (1814-1866)
- María Antonia de Paz y FigueroaCatholic saint of the River Plate
Sources : Wikidata (P841) · CC0 1.0
Astronomy
New York
- Sunrise
- 06:20
- Sunset
- 17:54
- Length of day
- 11h 34m+3 min vs yesterday
- Solar noon
- 12:07
Times shown for America/New_York
Season
Winter
began on December 21, 2025
Next season
Spring — 13 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 : 82%
Moon age : 18.2 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
1138
Konrad III von Hohenstaufen is elected king of Germany at Coblenz in the presence of the papal legate Theodwin. Wikipedia
1277
The University of Paris issues the last in a series of condemnations of various philosophical and theological theses. Wikipedia
1573
A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the Ottoman–Venetian War and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman hands. Wikipedia
1799
Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives. Wikipedia
1876
Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone". Wikipedia
1945
World War II: The American 9th Armored Division unexpectedly captures an intact bridge over the Rhine. Wikipedia
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1951
Iranian prime minister Ali Razmara is assassinated by Khalil Tahmasebi, a member of the Islamic fundamentalist Fada'iyan-e Islam, outside a mosque in Tehran. Wikipedia
1965
Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama. Wikipedia
1989
Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses. Wikipedia
2024
Sweden officially joins NATO, becoming its 32nd member. Wikipedia
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
Births and deaths
Born on this day March 7
- 1671Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish outlaw (died 1734)
- 1693Clement XIII, pope of the Catholic Church (died 1769)
- 1765Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, invented photography (died 1833)
- 1850Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Austrian-Czech politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (died 1937)
- 1857Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)
- 1904Reinhard Heydrich, German SS officer and a principle architect of the Holocaust (died 1942)
- 1915Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French general and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 2000)
- 1938David Baltimore, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2025)
Died on this day March 7
- 1274Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian priest and philosopher (born 1225)aged 49 years
- 1724Pope Innocent XIII (born 1655)aged 69 years
- 1809Jean-Pierre Blanchard, French inventor, best known as a pioneer in balloon flight (born 1753)aged 56 years
- 1932Aristide Briand, French journalist and politician, Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862)aged 70 years
- 1975Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher and critic (born 1895)aged 80 years
- 1983Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor and composer (born 1912)aged 71 years
- 1988Divine, American drag queen and film actor (born 1945)aged 43 years
- 1997Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)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 06:20 and sets at 17:54, giving 11h 34m of daylight — 3 minutes more than yesterday. It has been winter since December 21, 2025; spring opens in 13 days, on March 20, 2026 (March equinox).
The moon is waning gibbous, 82% illuminated. The next full moon falls on April 2, 2026 and the next new moon on March 19, 2026.
The saints' calendar attaches March 7 to Thomas Aquinas, Perpetua and Felicity and Marie Clotilde of France.
No United Nations international day falls on March 7. 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: Konrad III von Hohenstaufen is elected king of Germany at Coblenz in the presence of the papal legate Theodwin (1138); The University of Paris issues the last in a series of condemnations of various philosophical and theological theses (1277). English Wikipedia records 10 events for this date.
Rob Roy MacGregor was born on March 7, 1671; Saint Thomas Aquinas died on March 7, 1274.
293 days remain until Christmas and 300 until New Year's Day.
In astrology — kept separate from the measured astronomy above, deliberately — March 7 falls under the sign of Pisces.
Calendar
By the numbers
- 18%
- of the year elapsed
- 293
- until Christmas
- 300
- until New Year
- 724
- 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