TODAY’S HISTORY

1830: The Book of Mormon went on sale at a bookstore in Palmyra, New York. 1979: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed the Egyptisrael Peace Treaty during a ceremony in Washington, D.C. 1997: Police discovered the bodies of 39 victims of the Heaven’s Gate religious cult’s mass suicide in a mansion near San Diego, California. 1999: A Michigan jury found Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of seconddegree murder for euthanizing a terminally ill patient.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Robert Frost (1874-1963), poet; Viktor Frankl (1905-1997), psychotherapist/author; Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), playwright; Sandra Day O’connor (1930-2023), former U.S. Supreme Court justice; Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015), actor; Alan Arkin (1934-2023), actor; James Caan (1940-2022), actor; Richard Dawkins (1941-), biologist/author; Diana Ross (1944-), singer; Steven Tyler (1948-), singer-songwriter; Martin Short (1950-), actor; John Stockton (1962-), basketball player; Keira Knightley (1985-), actress.

TODAY’S FACT: The term “gerrymander” was first printed on this day in 1812 by the Boston Gazette; it described the shape of one of the election districts as redrawn in a bill signed by then-governor of Massachusetts Elbridge Gerry.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1917, the Seattle Metropolitans defeated the Montreal Canadiens 9-1 in Game 4 of the hockey championship series, becoming the first American team to win the Stanley Cup.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “We dance round in a ring and suppose, / But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.” — Robert Frost, “The Secret Sits”

TODAY’S NUMBER: 1.5 million — Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints membership in Mexico, second-highest after the United States.

TODAY’S MOON: Between full moon (March 25) and last quarter moon (April 1).