Today in HistoryToday is Monday, March 26, the 85th day of 2007. There are 280 days left in the year.

ON THIS DATE

In 1973, Anwar Sadat of Egypt took over the premiership, saying “the stage of total confrontation (with Israel) has become inevitable”.

In 1979, a peace treaty was signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at the White House.

In 1997, the bodies of 39 people, dressed alike and lying on mattresses or cots, were found scattered through a California mansion, members of the Heaven’s Gate techno-religious cult who died in a mass suicide.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.” — Agnes Repplier, American essayist (1858-1950).