NOW YOU KNOW

• On March 19, 1918, Congress approved Daylight Saving Time.
• On March 22, 1978, Karl Wallenda, the 73-year old patriarch of "The Flying Walleddas" high-wire act, fell to his death while attempting to walk a cable strung between two hotel towers in Puerto Rico.
• On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry delivered an address to the Virginia Provincial Convention in which he is said to have declared, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
• On March 24, 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez, ran aground on a reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound and began leaking 11 million gallons of crude oil.
• On March 25, 1911, 146 people, mostly female immigrants, were killed when fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. in New York.
• On March 26, 1979, a peace treaty was signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and witnessed by President Jimmy Carter at the White House.
• On March 28, 1979, America's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred inside the Unit 2 reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Dauphin County.
• On March 29, 2910, on this date five years ago, as Archbishop Wood graduate Terri Schiavo entered her 12th full day without food or water, the Rev. Jesse Jackson prayed with her parents and joined conservatives in calling for Flordia lawmaker to order her feeding tube reinserted.
• On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot and seriosly injured outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John W. Hinckley Jr.
• On March 31, 1880, Wabash, Ind., became the first town in the world to be illuminated by electrical lighting.