Milestones

DIED

Lillian Cahn, 89, a co-founder of the Coach Leatherware Co., which she and her husband started in a small New York City factory and later sold; in 2012, Coach had $4 billion in sales.

CELEBRATED

The 60th anniversary of Peeps, the spongy marshmallow chicks that have become synonymous with Easter in the U.S.; they were born in 1953, when Russian immigrant Sam Born bought the Rodda Candy Co. of Lancaster, Pa.

DIED

John Byrne, 80, executive who in the late 1970s brought Geico back from the brink of bankruptcy, a legendary turnaround that led Warren Buffett to call him the Babe Ruth of insurance.

DIED

Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, 90, the last surviving member of a group of German officers who plotted to kill Adolf Hitler in 1944; he went on to found the Munich Security Conference in 1963.

WON

The Iditarod sled-dog race, by Mitch Seavey, at 53 the competition’s oldest champion; Seavey, who has won the race before, completed the 1,000-mile Alaska course in 9 days 7 hr. 39 min.

DIED

Sybil Christopher, 83, first wife of actor Richard Burton; after he left her for Elizabeth Taylor, she bounced back in 1965 by opening Arthur, for a time New York City’s hottest celebrity nightspot.