Today is Sunday, March 26, the 85th day of 2023 with 280 to follow.

The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Mars and Saturn. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Uranus and Venus.

Those born on this date are under the sign of Aries. They include poet A. E. Housman in 1859; poet Robert Frost in 1874; fashion designer Guccio Gucci in 1881; mythologist/writer Joseph Campbell in 1904; playwright Tennessee Williams in 1911; U.S. Army Gen. William Westmoreland in 1914; French composer/conductor Pierre Boulez in 1925; former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in 1930 (age 93); actor Leonard Nimoy in 1931; actor Alan Arkin in 1934 (age 89); actor James Caan in 1940; U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., former speaker of the House, in 1940 (age 83); author Erica Jong in 1942 (age 81); author/journalist Bob Woodward in 1943 (age 80); singer Diana Ross in 1944 (age 79); singer/musician Steven Tyler in 1948 (age 75); actor Vicki Lawrence in 1949 (age 74); actor Martin Short in 1950 (age 73); TV personality Leeza Gibbons in 1957 (age 66); actor Jennifer Grey in 1960 (age 63); actor Eric Allan Kramer in 1962 (age 61); country singer Kenny Chesney in 1968 (age 55); actor Leslie Mann in 1972 (age 51); actor T.R. Knight in 1973 (age 50); actor Jonathan Groff in 1985 (age 38); actor Keira Knightley in 1985 (age 38).On this date in history:

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In 1830, the Book of Mormon was published.

In 1953, U.S. Dr. Jonas Salk announced he had successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes polio.

In 1971, East Pakistan achieved independence as Bangladesh.

In 1975, the city of Hue in South Vietnam fell to the North Vietnamese army.

In 1979, Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty at the White House, ending 30 years of hostilities.

In 1991, Mali's dictator, Gen. Moussa Traore, was overthrown in a violent overnight military coup. Fifty-nine people died.

In 1992, former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, convicted of raping a teenage beauty pageant contestant, was sentenced to six years in prison. Tyson was released after three years.

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In 1997, 39 members of the Heaven's Gate religious cult were found dead in a large house in Rancho Mirage, Calif., in what authorities said was a mass suicide.

In 1998, Bill Clinton became the first U.S. president to visit South Africa.

In 1999, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the euthanasia advocate, was convicted of second-degree murder in an Oakland County, Mich., courtroom for the videotaped "medicide" of a man suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease.

In 2000, acting Russian President Vladimir Putin was elected president by a more than 20 percent margin. Putin won a third term in 2012.

In 2014, a National Labor Relations Board regional director ruled that Northwestern University scholarship football players were employees of the school and entitled under federal law to form a union.

In 2020, new unemployment claims in the United Staes surged to 3.3. million, the largest weekly increase in U.S. history to date amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2022, Russian missiles targeted a fuel storage depot on the outskirts of Lviv, a city where Ukraine's refugees had fled amid Russia's invasion.

A thought for the day: "Advice is what we ask or when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." -- American writer Erica Jong