A4 THE BULLETIN • MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2021 TODAY DEAR ABBY Today is Monday, March 8, the 67th day of 2021. There are 298 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 with 239 people on board, vanished during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, setting off a massive and ultimately unsuccessful search. In 1618, German astronomer Jo- hannes Kepler devised his third law of planetary motion. In 1817, the New York Stock & Exchange Board, which had its beginnings in 1792, was formal- ly organized; it later became known as the New York Stock Exchange. In 1930, the 27th president of the United States, William How- ard Taft, died in Washington at age 72. In 1948, the Supreme Court, in McCollum v. Board of Education, struck down voluntary religious education classes in Champaign, Illinois, public schools, saying the program violated separation of church and state. In 1960, Democrat John F. Ken- nedy and Republican Richard M. Nixon won the New Hampshire presidential primary. In 1965, the United States landed its first combat troops in South Vietnam as 3,500 Marines arrived to defend the U.S. air base at Da Nang. In 1979, technology firm Philips demonstrated a prototype com- pact disc player during a press conference in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. In 1983, in a speech to the National Association of Evangel- icals convention in Orlando, Flor- ida, President Ronald Reagan referred to the Soviet Union as an