Today is Palm Sunday, March 20, the 80th day of 2016. There are 286 days left in the year. Spring arrives at 12:30 a.m. Eastern time.

Today’s birthdays: Singer Dame Vera Lynn is 99. Producer-director-comedian Carl Reiner is 94. Hockey Hall-of-Famer Bobby Orr is 68. Movie director Spike Lee is 59. Actress-model-designer Kathy Ireland is 53. Actress-singer Christy Carlson Romano is 32. Actress Ruby Rose (TV: ‘‘Orange is the New Black’’) is 30.

In 1727, physicist, mathematician and astronomer Sir Isaac Newton died in London.

In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte returned to Paris after escaping his exile on Elba, beginning his ‘‘Hundred Days’’ rule.

In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential novel about slavery, ‘‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’’ was first published in book form.

In 1969, John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar.

In 1976, kidnapped newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was convicted of armed robbery for her part in a bank holdup.