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• Jagger's representative said the singer was "completely shocked and devastated by the news" of her death.
• Scott, whose elegant designs in lush fabrics were favored by celebrities like Madonna, Nicole Kidman, Oprah Winfrey, Penelope Cruz and first lady Michelle Obama, was a fixture on Jagger's arm since she met the Rolling Stones frontman in 2001. On red carpets, the striking 6-foot-3 designer towered over her famous 5-foot-10 boyfriend.
Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Tuesday, March 18, the 77th day of 2014. There are 288 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On March 18, 1974, most of the Arab oil-producing nations ended their 5-month-old embargo against the United States that had been sparked by American support for Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
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• On this date:
• In 1766, Britain repealed the Stamp Act of 1765.
• In 1837, the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, Grover Cleveland, was born in Caldwell, N.J.
• In 1913, King George I of Greece was assassinated in Thessaloniki.
• In 1937, some 300 people, mostly children, were killed in a gas explosion at a school in New London, Texas.
• In 1938, Mexican President Lazaro Cardenas nationalized his country's petroleum reserves and took control of foreign-owned oil facilities.
• In 1940, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met at the Brenner Pass, where the Italian dictator agreed to join Germany's war against France and Britain.
• In 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Hawaii statehood bill. (Hawaii became a state on Aug. 21, 1959.)
• In 1962, France and Algerian rebels signed the Evian Accords, a cease-fire agreement which took effect the next day, ending the Algerian War.
• In 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Gideon v. Wainwright, ruled unanimously that state courts were required to provide legal counsel to criminal defendants who could not afford to hire an attorney on their own.
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