Spring equinox Mar 19, 2024

Goodbye winter! Today marks the spring or vernal equinox, the official beginning of springtime in the Northern Hemisphere. Starting today, regions north of the equator will have longer days than nights.

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Today in History

Mar 19, 2018Sanxiantai Dragon Bridge in Taitung, Taiwan
Mar 19, 2019The smoke before the bonfire
Mar 19, 2020Sunburst at Angkor
Mar 19, 2021Life carries on, rising from a ship s skeleton
Mar 19, 2022Chicagohenge
Mar 19, 2023Barn owl, England
Mar 19, 2025A black heron canopy feeding in Botswana
Mar 19, 2026Short-beaked echidna, Adelaide Hills, Australia

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Dec 5, 2024Tufa formations in Mono Lake, California
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Oct 7, 2025Fall colors below Mount Sneffels near Ridgway, Colorado
Apr 2, 2023Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park, East Java, Indonesia
Feb 22, 2026Mam Tor, Derbyshire, England
Oct 17, 2025Rock River Falls, Upper Peninsula, Michigan
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Nov 12, 2022Alaska Bald Eagle Festival
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Sep 29, 2026The blue, glacier-fed waters of the Kasilof River, Alaska
Feb 27, 2023International Polar Bear Day
Jan 14, 2018Sanday Island and the North Sea, Scotland
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Sep 22, 2020Happy Hobbit Day
Apr 20, 2025Happy Easter!
Feb 7, 2020Frozen fun in the Canadian cold
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