Milestones

DIED

Priscilla Buckley, 90, whose brother William F. Buckley founded the conservative National Review, where she was managing editor from 1959 to 1985.

CHARGED

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, with "aggravated pimping" for alleged habitual involvement in a French prostitution ring; he is free on 100,000 euros bail.

CELEBRATED

The 100th National Cherry Blossom Festival. In 1912, Tokyo Mayor Yukio Ozaki gave 3,000 cherry trees to Washington; they were planted around the city's tidal basin, where their abundant pink blossoms draw crowds each spring.

DIED

John Payton, 65, civil rights lawyer and president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund,...

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