MONDAY, MARCH 3, 2008

Today is Monday, March 3, the 63rd day of 2008. There are 303 days left in the year.

1794 _ First performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D

1917 _ Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates

1923 _ Time magazine publishes first issue

1931 _ ``Star Spangled Banner" officially becomes U.S. national anthem

1956 _ Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne)

1966 _ Rock group Buffalo Springfield forms (Steven Stills, Neil Young, et al)

1977 _ Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms

1978 _ Charles Chaplin's remains are stolen in Switzerland

1991 _ Latvia and Estonia vote to become independent of the USSR

1991 _ Los Angeles Police severely beat Rodney King, captured on amateur video