Today is Tuesday, March 18, the 77th day of 2025 with 288 to follow.
The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter and Mars. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Uranus and Venus.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Pisces. They include John C. Calhoun, the first U.S. vice president to resign that office, in 1782; Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th president of the United States, in 1837; musician Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1844; engineer Rudolf Diesel in 1858; actor Edward Everett Horton in 1886; poet Wilfred Owen in 1893; winemaker Ernest Gallo in 1909; actor Peter Graves in 1926; musician John Kander in 1927 (age 98); writer John Updike in 1932; musician Charley Pride in 1934; musician Wilson Pickett in 1941; actor Brad Dourif in 1950 (age 75); Olympic gold medal-winning skier Ingemar Stenmark in 1956 (age 69); musician Irene Cara in 1959; actor Geoffrey Owens in 1961 (age 64); TV personality Mike Rowe in 1962 (age 63); actor Thomas Ian Griffith in 1962 (age 63); actor/musician Vanessa Williams in 1963 (age 62); Olympic champion speed skater Bonnie Blair in 1964 (age 61); musician Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains) in 1966 (age 59); musician/actor Queen Latifah in 1970 (age 55); comedian/actor Dane Cook in 1972 (age 53); musician Phillip Sweet (Little Big Town) in 1974 (age 51); actor Sutton Foster in 1975 (age 50); musician/TV personality Adam Levine (Maroon 5) in 1979 (age 46); actor Adam Pally in 1982 (age 43); actor Lily Collins in 1989 (age 36); actor Lenny Rush in 2009 (age 16).
On this date in history:
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In 1922, Mahatma Gandhi was sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience against the British rulers of India.
In 1925, the worst tornado in U.S. history roared through eastern Missouri, southern Illinois and southern Indiana, killing 695 people, injuring thousands of others and causing $17 million in property damage.
In 1937, a natural gas explosion at a public school in New London, Texas, killed almost 300 people, most of them children.
In 1962, France and Algeria signed a cease-fire agreement ending a seven-year civil war and bringing independence to the North African country.
In 1965, Soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov became the first person to walk in space.
In 1995, "I'm back." Superstar Michael Jordan announced he was returning to professional basketball and the Chicago Bulls after a 17-month break, during which he had tried a baseball career.
In 2002, a 13-year-old girl died two days after being struck in the head by a puck at a Columbus Blue Jackets-Calgary Flames game. The incident forced the National Hockey League to have teams install 18-foot nets behind all goals to protect spectators.
In 2003, on the eve of war with Iraq, the U.S. State Department listed 30 countries as members of a "coalition of the willing" supporting military intervention, but only the United States, Britain and Australia were known to be providing troops.
In 2005, doctors removed the feeding tube keeping Terri Schiavo alive after a wide-ranging fight over the brain-damaged Florida woman's care that involved U.S. President George Bush and Congress.
In 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama signed a jobs-stimulus measure into law. It provided $17.5 billion in tax cuts and other employer incentives and shifted $20 billion to boost transit programs.
In 2014, the U.S. State Department ordered Syria to close its embassy in Washington, D.C., and consulates in Michigan and Texas, and expelled all diplomats without U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residency status.
In 2018, an Uber vehicle on autonomous mode struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Ariz., the first fatal crash involving a self-driving car.
In 2021, the Senate confirmed William Burns to serve as CIA director.
A thought for the day: "Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before." -- Champion speed skater Bonnie Blair
