By The Associated Press
                - Today is Monday, March 8, the 67th day of 1999. There are 298 days
                  left in the year.

                - On March 8, 1841, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.,
                  the "Great Dissenter," was born in Boston.
                - In 1702, England's Queen Anne ascended the throne upon the death
                  of King William III.
                - In 1854, U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry made his second landing
                  in Japan. Within a month, he concluded a treaty with the Japanese.
                - In 1874, the 13th president of the U.S., Millard Fillmore, died in
                  Buffalo, N.Y.
                - In 1917, Russia's "February Revolution" - so called because of the
                  Old Style calendar used by Russians at the time - began with rioting
                  and strikes in St. Petersburg.
                - In 1917, the U.S. Senate voted to limit filibusters by adopting the
                  cloture rule.
                - In 1930, the 27th president of the U.S., William Howard Taft, died
                  in Washington.
                - In 1942, Japanese forces captured Rangoon, Burma, during World War
                  II.
                - In 1944, U.S. bombers resumed bombing Berlin.
                - In 1965, the U.S. landed about 3,500 Marines in South Vietnam.
                - In 1986, four French TV crew members were abducted in west Beirut; a
                  caller claimed Islamic Jihad was responsible. All four were
                  eventually released.
                - Ten years ago: In Lebanon, daily artillery barrages between
                  Christian and Syrian forces and their militia allies began in
                  Beirut; at least 930 people were killed before a cease-fire took
                  hold the following September.
                - Five years ago: President Clinton announced the appointment of
                  Washington attorney Lloyd Cutler as senior counsel, replacing
                  Bernard Nussbaum. The Defense Department announced a smoking ban for
                  workplaces ranging from the Pentagon to battle tanks.
                - One year ago: James McDougal, one of the most important cooperating
                  witnesses in Kenneth Starr's Whitewater investigation, died in a
                  federal medical prison in Fort Worth, Texas, at age 57. More than a
                  foot of wind-driven snow paralyzed travel across the central Plains
                  and Midwest. Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Nitschke died in Florida at
                  age 61.

                *Happy Birthday*
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                - Actress Claire Trevor is 90.
                - Actress Sue Ane Langdon is 63.
                - Baseball player-turned-author Jim Bouton is 60.
                - Actress Lynn Redgrave is 56.
                - Actor-director Micky Dolenz is 54.
                - Lyricist Carole Bayer Sager is 52.
                - Actress Jaime Lyn Bauer is 50.
                - Baseball player Jim Rice is 46.
                - Singer Gary Numan is 41.
                - Actor Aidan Quinn is 40.
                - Actress Camryn Manheim ("The Practice") is 38.
                - Actress Kathy Ireland is 36.
                - Actress Andrea Parker ("The Pretender") is 30.
                - Actor Freddie Prinze Jr. is 23.
                - Actor James Van Der Beek ("Dawson's Creek") is 22.
                - Rhythm-and-blues singer Kameelah Williams (702) is 21.