By The Associated Press
                       - Today is Sunday, March 7, the 66th day of 1999. There are 299 days
                         left in the year.

                       - On March 7, 1849, horticulturist Luther Burbank was born in
                         Lancaster, Mass.
                       - In 1850, in a three-hour speech to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Webster
                         endorsed the Compromise of 1850 as a means of preserving the Union.
                       - In 1875, composer Maurice Ravel was born in Cibourne, France.
                       - In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his telephone.
                       - In 1911, the U.S. sent 20,000 troops to the Mexican border as a
                         precaution in the wake of the Mexican Revolution.
                       - In 1926, the first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone
                         conversation took place, between New York and London.
                       - In 1936, Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march into the
                         Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno
                         Pact.
                       - In 1945, during World War II, U.S. forces crossed the Rhine River at
                         Remagen, Germany, via the damaged but still usable Ludendorff
                         Bridge.
                       - In 1965, state troopers and a sheriff's posse broke up a march by
                         civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Ala.
                       - In 1975, the Senate revised its filibuster rule, allowing 60
                         senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously
                         required two-thirds of senators present.
                       - Ten years ago: Secretary of State James A. Baker III met with Soviet
                         Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in Vienna, Austria. Baker
                         agreed to visit Moscow the following May to discuss prospects for a
                         summit between President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S.
                         Gorbachev.
                       - Five years ago: The Supreme Court ruled that parodies that poke fun
                         at an original work can be considered "fair use" that doesn't
                         require permission from the copyright holder. The U.S. Navy issued
                         its first permanent orders assigning women to regular duty on a
                         combat ship - in this case, the USS Eisenhower.
                       - One year ago: Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, speaking in
                         Rome, said the U.S. wouldn't tolerate any more violence in Kosovo,
                         which she blamed on Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.

                       *Happy Birthday*
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                       - Photographer Lord Snowdon is 69.
                       - TV weatherman Willard Scott is 65.
                       - Auto racer Janet Guthrie is 61.
                       - Actor Daniel J. Travanti is 59.
                       - Walt Disney Co. chairman Michael Eisner is 57.
                       - Rock musician Chris White (The Zombies) is 56.
                       - Actor John Heard is 53.
                       - Rock singer Peter Wolf is 53.
                       - Rock musician Matthew Fisher (Procol Harum) is 53.
                       - Singer Peggy March is 51.
                       - Football Hall-of-Famer Franco Harris is 49.
                       - Former football player Lynn Swann is 47.
                       - Tennis player Ivan Lendl is 39.
                       - Singer-actress Taylor Dayne is 34.
                       - Rock musician Randy Guss (Toad the Wet Sprocket) is 32.
                       - Actress Laura Prepon ("That '70s Show") is 19.