Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Today is March 26. 30 years of hostilities between Israel and Egypt ended on this date in 1979 when the two countries signed a peace treaty at the White House. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat gave President Carter credit for the so-called Camp David agreement reached the previous fall. Advertisement A grisly find on this date in 1997. 39 members of the Heaven's Gate religious cult were found dead in a large house in Rancho Mirage, Calif., in an apparent mass suicide. It seemed the cultists had "shed" their corporeal forms to board the space ship they believed was trailing the Comet Hale-Bopp. In 1859, astronomers reported sighting a new planet in an orbit near that of Mercury. They named it Vulcan. It's now believed to have been a "rogue asteroid" making a one-time pass close to the sun. Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson was sentenced to six years in prison on this date in 1992 for raping a teenage beauty pageant contestant. He'd spend about three years behind bars. Advertisement And on this date in 1999, "Dr. Death" Jack Kevorkian was convicted of second-degree murder in an Oakland Co., Mich., courtroom for the videotaped "assisted suicide" of a man suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease. Four previous trials of Kevorkian on charges stemming from helping other people end their lives had ended with acquittals. This time, however, the charges stuck. The retired pathologist would be sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison. We now return you to the present, already in progress.
