Today is the 37th day of 2011. There are 328 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight

1945: Reggae legend Robert 'Bob' Marley, OJ, is born in Nine Miles, St Ann in Jamaica. Marley, who along with Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh made up the famous Wailers, is a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement awardee. Both awards were made posthumously.

Other Events

1643: Dutch mariner Abel Tasman lands on the Fiji Islands in the Pacific.

1715: Peace of Utrecht ends war between Spain and Portugal.

1897: Crete proclaims union with Greece.

1899: Treaty of Paris is ratified, whereby Spain cedes Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines to the US for $20 million.

1964: England and France agree on constructing English Channel rail tunnel.

1994: Martti Ahtisaari wins Finland's first direct presidential election.

1996: More than 1,000 Palestinians challenge Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem by filing claims for property they once owned in the Jewish part of the disputed city.

1997: Marking his first year as president of Haiti, René Preval distributes land to peasants.

2000: Hillary Rodham Clinton announces her candidacy for US Senate in New York. She later defeats the Republican candidate, becoming the only US first lady ever elected to public office.

2008: Seven doctors and pharmacists go on trial in Paris for the deaths of more than 100 young people who contracted a brain-destroying disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, after being treated with tainted human growth hormones. The trial follows a more than 16-year investigation.

2009: Nigerian health workers hunt down errant bottles of a poisonous teething formula after 84 infants and children who swallowed a syrup laced with a chemical normally found in antifreeze die.

Today's Birthdays

Queen Anne of England (1665-1714); Anton Hermann Fokker, Dutch aviation pioneer (1890-1939); Babe Ruth, US baseball star (1895-1948); Ronald Reagan, US president (1911-2004); Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian actress (1917-); Francois Truffaut, French film director (1932-1984); Robert 'Bob' Marley, Jamaican musician (1945-1981); Natalie Cole, US singer (1950-); Rick Astley, British singer (1966-).