NEA DATEBOOK

TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1830, the Book of Mormon went on sale at a bookstore in Palmyra, New York.

In 1979, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty during a ceremony in Washington, D.C.

In 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.

In 1999, a Michigan jury found Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree 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- ), singersongwriter; 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 MOON: Between full moon (March 25) and last quarter moon (April 1).