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On this day: March 8

Published On: Mar 04 2013 12:44:12 PM CST Updated On: Mar 08 2013 01:00:00 AM CST

The New York Stock Exchange is founded, Frazier outlasts Ali, the compact disc makes its debut, and Baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio dies, all on this day.

OTD March 8 - Timothy McVeigh — 26 / 27

Jim Bourg/Reuters

1999: The Supreme Court of the United States rejects Timothy McVeigh's appeal, upholding his murder convictions for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. He would be executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Ind.

OTD March 8 - Queen Anne

OTD March 8 - Thomas Paine

OTD March 8 - Hannah van Buren

OTD March 8 - New York Stock Exchange

OTD March 8 - CSS Virginia

OTD March 8 - Millard Fillmore

OTD March 8 - Raymonde de LaRoche

OTD March 8 - IRS

OTD March 8 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin

OTD March 8 - Alan Hale Jr.

OTD March 8 - Cyd Charisse

OTD March 8 - William Howard Taft

OTD March 8 - Lynn Redgrave

OTD March 8 - Mickey Dolenz

OTD March 8 - Jim Rice

OTD March 8 - Aidan Quinn

OTD March 8 - Harold Lloyd

OTD March 8 - Ali Frazier I

OTD March 8 - George Stevens

OTD March 8 - Freddie Prinze Jr

OTD March 8 - James Van Der Beek

OTD March 8 - Philips CDs

OTD March 8 - Beavis and Butt-Head

OTD March 8 - Fargo

OTD March 8 - Ray Nitschke

OTD March 8 - Timothy McVeigh

OTD March 8 - Joe DiMaggio

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