THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2008

Today is Thursday, March 6, the 66th day of 2008. There are 300 days left in the year.

1323 - Treaty of Paris

1521 _ Magellan discovers Guam

1831 _ Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy

1853 _ Giuseppe Verdi's Opera ``La Traviata" premieres in Venice

1946 _ France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation

1964 _ Liz Taylor's third divorce (Eddie Fisher)

1967 _ Muhammad Ali is ordered by selective service to be inducted

1967 _ Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US

1970 _ Beatles release ``Let it Be" in U.K.

1981 _ Walter Cronkite signs off as anchorman of ``The CBS Evening News"